It is awarded annually to fiction written for children aged eight and above, and is the only children's fiction award selected by fellow writers.
After it won a prestigious award, selected photo of the year by World Press Photo, questions arose about whether it was a digitally altered composite.
There are plenty of awards handed out by smug little groups of hoity-toity connoisseurs, so why not an award selected by the people, and reflective of the kind of art hard-working Americans actually pay for?
Well, there is an honest way to give the award: select a city that has unique and genuinely world-class cultural traditions, one that is beautiful (what's wrong with beautiful?) and offers visitors attractions unavailable in London.
The People's Taste award, selected by the hundreds who attended the ceremonies and tasted food from finalists in each award category, went to Souvlaki GR, which has a truck in the financial district and opened a small restaurant on the Lower East Side last year.
Held in London on Monday, the Suntory Single Malt Whisky Yamazaki 1984 first won the top prize in the category specifically for whisky, where it had been up against 300 entrants from around the world, the tipple then went on to win the Supreme Champion Spirit award, selected from all the entrants in the various categories.
In April 2017, Make A Difference With Loukoumi Day received TEGNA's National Make A Difference Day All-Star Award selected from thousands of projects nationwide.
Yellow Star was selected as a "fiction and poetry honor book" in the 2006 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, an American Library Association Notable Children's Book for Older Readers in April 2007, and won the 2009 William Allen White Children's Book Award, selected by vote of sixth- through eighth-graders in Kansas.
In 1957 Robin's TV receiver set, designed for Pye, was included in the first of the design awards selected by the then Council of Industrial Design.
Like entertainment industry award shows, selecting the right category is the road to acclaim.
In it, he explained why he opted out of the 2017 ceremony, and criticized the 2016 awards for selecting Taylor Swift's "1989" over Kendrick Lamar's "To Pimp A Butterfly".
