Thank you to all of the authors and illustrators who have made acceptance speeches for winning a Cartwheel Book Award! Click on the award underneath the author's name to see the acceptance video or read the acceptance speech.

Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
2016 Cartwheel for Best Written (Book Scavenger)
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Peter Brown
2017 Cartwheel for Best Written​ (The Wild Robot)

Gitty Daneshvari
2017 Cartwheel for Favorite Male Character (Jonathan from The League of Unexceptional Children)

Gilbert Ford
2014 Cartwheel for Favorite Book Cover (A Snicker of Magic)

Karina Glaser
2019 Cartwheel for Favorite Male Character (Oliver from The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street)

Chris Grabenstein
2016 Cartwheel for Favorite Male Character (Billy from The Island of Dr. Libris)

Margaret Peterson Haddix
2017 Cartwheel for Favorite Book (Under Their Skin)

Linda Oatman High
2018 Cartwheel for Best Written (One Amazing Elephant)

Jennifer L. Holm
2014 Cartwheel for Favorite Male Character (Melvin from The Fourteenth Goldfish)

Kevin Keele
2016 Cartwheel for Favorite Book Cover (Masterminds)

Erin Entrada Kelly
2018 Cartwheel for Favorite Book (Hello, Universe)

Hena Khan
2018 Cartwheel for Favorite Female Character (Amina from Amina's Voice)

Gordon Korman
2016 Cartwheel for Favorite Book (Masterminds)

Natalie Lloyd
2014 Cartwheel for Best Written (A Snicker of Magic)

Ann M. Martin
2016 Cartwheel for Best Ending (Rain Reign)

Yona Zeldis McDonough
2018 Cartwheel for Favorite Male Character (Marcel from The Bicycle Spy)
2018 Cartwheel for Best Ending (The Bicycle Spy)

Tim O'Brien
2017 Cartwheel for Favorite Book Cover (The Big Dark)

Jackson Pearce
2016 Cartwheel for Favorite Female Character (Pip from Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures)

Rodman Philbrick
2017 Cartwheel for Best Ending (The Big Dark)

Lois Sepahban
2017 Cartwheel for Favorite Female Character (Manami from Paper Wishes)

Tamara Ireland Stone
2019 Cartwheel for Favorite Book (Click'd)
2019 Cartwheel for Favorite Female Character (Allie from Click'd)

Matthew Swanson & Robbi Behr
2019 Cartwheel for Best Written (The Real McCoys)

Vivienne To
2019 Cartwheel for Favorite Book Cover (Last Day on Mars)

Kristin Tubb
2019 Cartwheel for Best Ending (A Dog Like Daisy)

Amber McRee Turner
2014 Cartwheel for Favorite Female Character (Circa from Circa Now)

Jude Watson
2014 Cartwheel for Best Ending (Loot)
2014 Cartwheel for Favorite Book (Loot)