And the 2011 RICBA winner is....

....drum roll please....

Never Smile at a Monkey by Steve Jenkins

Congratulations, Steve Jenkins!

Author	Title	Votes
Jenkins, Steve	Never Smile at a Monkey	1,322
Sturm, James	Adventures in Cartooning	1,130
Mass, Wendy	11 Birthdays	792
Klise, Kate	Dying to Meet You	714
Prineas, Sarah	The Magic Thief	411
Graff, Lisa	Umbrella Summer	408
Lin, Grace	Where the Mountain Meets the Moon	320
DiTerlizzi, Tony	Kenny and the Dragon	278
Chin, Jason	Redwoods	252
Mills, Claudia	How Oliver Olson Changed the World	241
Davies, Jacqueline	Tricking the Tallyman	232
Giff, Patricia Reilly	Wild Girl	225
Tolan, Stephanie S.	Wishworks, Inc.	194
Philbrick, Rodman	The Mostly true adventures of Homer P. Figg	187
Gaiman, Neil	Odd and the Frost Giants	144
Harley, Avis	African Acrostics	142
Yep, Laurence	The Dragon's Child	119
Russell, Ching Yeung	Tofu Quilt	45
McGinty, Alice B.	Darwin: with glimpses into his private journals and letters	44
DeGross, Monalisa	Donavan's Double Trouble	41
TOTAL VOTES: 7,241 from 75 schools and 1 public library

11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass

Grades: 4-6

Committee Annotation: Amanda's eleventh birthday should have been a happy occasion but this year everything goes wrong. She can't wait for the day to be over. But on the next day Amanda wakes up to find it's STILL her 11th birthday!

Subject: Birthdays, Time, Friendship, Interpersonal Relationships, Family Feuds, Fantasy

Author Web Site: http://www.wendymass.com/

Adventures in Cartooning by James Sturm

Grades: 3-6

Committee Annotation: An impatient knight, a cowardly horse, and a magical elf set off to rescue a princess and slay a dragon- and along the way learn to make comics- in this rip-roaring adventure.

Subjects: Cartoons and Comics, Comic Books, Strips, etc.-Technique, Drawing-Technique, Graphic Novels, Princesses, Elves, Knights, Dragons, Fairy Tales, Adventure, Humor

Author Web Site: none.