The votes are in, and the winners have been announced for the 2012 Children's Choice Books Awards! The gala took place on May 7, 2012 at Espace in Midtown Manhattan, as part of Children's Book Week (May 7-13), and was hosted by Jarrett J. Krosoczka, author of the Lunch Lady series. Walter Dean Myers, the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, presented the Impact Award to New York Giant Justin Tuck, who co-founded Tuck's R.U.S.H. for Literacy with his wife, Lauren.

Children across the country voted in record numbers for their favorite books, author and illustrator at bookstores, school libraries and at BookWeekOnline.com, casting over one million votes. Now in its fifth year, the Children's Choice Book Awards Program was founded as a way to provide young readers the opportunity to voice their opinions about the books being written for them, as well as to help create a reading list that will help motivate children to read more, and to cultivate a love of reading.

For more information on the Children's Choice Book Awards and Children's Book Week, please visit BookWeekOnline.com.

2012 Winners

Kindergarten to Second Grade Book of the Year
THREE HENS AND A PEACOCK by Lester L. Laminack, illustrated by Henry Cole (Peachtree)

Third Grade to Fourth Grade Book of the Year
BAD KITTY MEETS THE BABY by Nick Bruel (Roaring Brook/Macmillan)

Fifth Grade to Sixth Grade Book of the Year
OKAY FOR NOW by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Teen Choice Book of the Year
CLOCKWORK PRINCE: The Infernal Devices, Book Two by Cassandra Clare (Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster)

Author of the Year
Jeff Kinney for DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 6: Cabin Fever (Amulet Books/Abrams)

Illustrator of the Year
Brian Selznick for WONDERSTRUCK(Scholastic)

2012 Finalists

Kindergarten to Second Grade Book of the Year
BAILEY by Harry Bliss (Scholastic)
DOT by Patricia Intriago (Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Macmillan)
PIRATES DON'T TAKE BATHS by John Segal (Philomel/Penguin)
THREE HENS AND A PEACOCK by Lester L. Laminack, illustrated by Henry Cole (Peachtree)
ZOMBIE IN LOVE by Kelly DiPucchio, illustrated by Scott Campbell (Atheneum/Simon & Schuster)

Third Grade to Fourth Grade Book of the Year
BAD KITTY MEETS THE BABY by Nick Bruel (Roaring Brook/Macmillan)
A FUNERAL IN THE BATHROOM: And Other School Bathroom Poems by Kalli Dakos, illustrated by Mark Beech (Albert Whitman)
THE MONSTROUS BOOK OF MONSTERS by Libby Hamilton, illustrated by Jonny Duddle and Aleksei Bitskoff (Templar/Candlewick)
SIDEKICKS by Dan Santat (Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic)
SQUISH #1: Super Amoeba by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm (Random House)

Fifth Grade to Sixth Grade Book of the Year
BAD ISLAND by Doug TenNapel (GRAPHIX/Scholastic)
HOW TO SURVIVE ANYTHING by Rachel Buchholz, illustrated by Chris Philpot (National Geographic)
LOST & FOUND by Shaun Tan (Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic)
OKAY FOR NOW by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
RACING IN THE RAIN: My Life as a Dog by Garth Stein (HarperCollins)

Teen Choice Book of the Year
CLOCKWORK PRINCE: The Infernal Devices, Book Two by Cassandra Clare (Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster)
DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE by Laini Taylor (Little, Brown)
DIVERGENT by Veronica Roth (Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins)
PASSION: A Fallen Novel by Lauren Kate (Delacorte/Random House)
PERFECT by Ellen Hopkins (Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster)

Author of the Year
Jeff Kinney for DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 6: Cabin Fever (Amulet Books/Abrams)
Christopher Paolini for INHERITANCE (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)
James Patterson for MIDDLE SCHOOL, THE WORST YEARS OF MY LIFE (Little, Brown)
Rick Riordan for THE SON OF NEPTUNE (The Heroes of Olympus, Book 2) (Disney Hyperion)
Rachel Renée Russell for DORK DIARIES 3: Tales from a Not-So-Talented Pop Star (Aladdin/Simon & Schuster)

Illustrator of the Year
Felicia Bond for IF YOU GIVE A DOG A DONUT (Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins)
Eric Carle for THE ARTIST WHO PAINTED A BLUE HORSE (Philomel/Penguin)
Anna Dewdney for LLAMA LLAMA HOME WITH MAMA (Viking/Penguin)
Victoria Kann for SILVERLICIOUS (HarperCollins)
Brian Selznick for WONDERSTRUCK (Scholastic)