2018 Activity Booklet and gold seals

The 2018 NCCBA Activity Booklet is ready!  It contains all of the information you need to participate in the North Carolina Children's Book Award as well as activities to help you share all of the books with your students or patrons.

2018 Activity Booklet

Seals to place on the front of winning books are available from NCCBA co-chair, Lisa England at a cost of $0.25 each.  Please make checks payable to NCSLMA and mail to Lisa England, Frank Morgan Elementary School, 3210 Village Point Drive, Clemmons, NC 27102.  Purchase orders or email requests are also accepted.

We have something new this year to access the Prezi for our Junior Book Nominees.  Scan this QR Code and you will go directly to the Prezi.  The Prezi has book trailers for all of the Junior Book Nominees in one handy place!

Thank you for supporting the North Carolina Children's Book Award!

2017-18 Picture Book and Junior Book Nominees

We are very pleased to announce the nominees for the 2017-2018 North Carolina Children's Book Awards. 

Picture Books

Junior Books

Ada Twist, Scientist Beaty, Andrea. Illustrated by David Roberts. New York: Abrams Books for Young Readers,  2016. The Bear and the Piano Litchfield, David. Boston: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. Giant Squid Fleming, Candace. Illustrated by Eric Rohmann. New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2016 Lion Lessons Agee, Jon. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2016. Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion Smith, Alex T.. New York: Scholastic Press, 2016. Maybe Something Beautiful: How Art Transformed a Neighborhood Campoy, F. Isabel. Illustrated by Rafael Lopez. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. Quit Calling Me a Monster! John, Jory. Illustrated by Bob Shea. New York: Random House, 2016. Thunder Boy Jr. Alexie, Sherman. Illustrated by Yuyi Morales. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2016. The Toad Gravel, Elise. Toronto, Ontario: Tundra Books, 2016. Water is Water Paul, Miranda. New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2015.

Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: the First Computer Programmer Stanley, Diane. Illustrated by Jessie Hartland. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2016. All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook Connor, Leslie. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2016. Garvey's Choice Grimes, Nikki. Honesdale, Pennsylvania: Wordsong, 2016. Ghost Reynolds, Jason. New York: Antheneum Books for Young Readers, 2016 Moo Creech, Sharon. New York: Joanna Cotler Books, 2016. A Poem for Peter: the Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Illustrated by Lou Fancher and Steve Johnson. New York: Viking Books for Young Readers, 2016. Save Me a Seat Weeks, Sarah and Gita Varadarajan. New York: Scholastic Press, 2016. Some Writer!: the Story of E.B. White Sweet, Melissa. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. The Terrible Two Barnett, Mac and Jory John. New York: Amulet Books, 2015. Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-soaking Stream of Inventions Barton, Chris. Illustrated by Don Tate. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge, 2016. Wild Robot Brown, Peter. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2016. Wish O'Connor, Barbara. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

2017 Picture Book and Junior Book Winners!

The North Carolina Children's Book Award Committee is proud to announce the 2017 winners!

Our Picture Book winner is I Yam a Donkey, written and illustrated by Cece Bell.

Our Junior Book winner is Roller Girl, written and illustrated by Victoria Jamieson.

To see the voting summary for this year's awards, please go to the 2017 Results and Materials page. Thank you to all the school media coordinators and public librarians who make this wonderful program a priority for their students and patrons. As we continue to strive to give young people a voice, our goal is to involve more and more schools and libraries to widen our reach across North Carolina.

New titles for the 2018 contest will be released mid-May!

2017 Junior Book Winner

2017 Picture Book Winner

Kelly DiPucchio accepts award

Kelly DiPucchio attended the North Carolina School Library Media Association conference two weeks ago to receive her award for the 2016 Picture Book Winner - Gaston!  Here she is with members of the NCCBA committee (Kelly DiPucchio is seated in front) while Gaston accepts the NCCBA award plaque.

5 Ways to Participate in NCCBA

Check out how to get involved in the North Carolina Children's Book Awards. Your kids will be able to nominate their favorites very soon - November 1!