The Little Peeps Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Early Readers. The Little Peeps Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience for Early Readers. Story books, Beginning Chapter Books, Picture Books, Activity Books, and Educational Books. (For Young Adult Fiction see our Dante Rossetti Awards, for Middle Grade Readers see our Gertrude Warner Awards.)

 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by Jonna Laster on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 at the Bellingham Yacht Club in Beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

This is the OFFICIAL 2024 LIST of the LITTLE PEEPS BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the LITTLE PEEPS Grand Prize Winner.

Congratulations to the FIRST PLACE CATEGORY WINNERS of the Little Peeps Book Awards for Early Readers and Children’s Picture Books, a division of the 2024 CIBAs.

• Kristen J Anderson – Lorelei the Lorelei: The First of Many Firsts

• Raven Howell – Keep Trucking

• Julie Lomax – Melissa Moo Moo’s Special Lesson

• Dr. Gerry Haller – Will’s Adventure to the Candy Mountain

• Shaziya M. Jaffer, Jessica Alexanderson and Brad W. Rudover – A Recycling Adventure to The Scrapyard!

• Mike Mirabella and Lenny Lipton – I Used to Be Shy

The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2024 LITTLE PEEPS Awards is:

Island Moon

by Ruth Amanda

You can see all of our amazing 2024 Little Peeps Finalists! Congratulations to all and thank you for submitting!

Well done climbing the CIBA Levels of Achievement!

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

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A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in May. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items.

To ALL the WINNERS: You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

NOTE:  We will post at least two 2024 CIBA Divisions’ OFFICIAL Winners per business day starting April 14, 2025. We do a final sweep and reconciliation prior to making the Official CIBA Posts for the 2024 First Place and Grand Prize Winners. We thank you in advance for your patience and understanding. There are many moving parts involved with the Chanticleer International Book Awards Program.

Thank you for participating in the 2024 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

Team Chanticleer!