2023 Kid's Voting is OPEN!

 

It's time for kids to vote for their favorite books!  

Kids may vote online, through their school librarians, or at their public library.

The deadline for voting has been extended to April 21, 2023.

Kids read or listen to at least 5 of the Picture Book Nominees, then VOTE - HERE.
(If you still need to checkout the nominees, please go to the 2023 Picture Book Nominees tab.)

Kids read or listen to at least 3 of the Junior Book Nominees, then VOTE - HERE.
(If you still need to checkout the nominees, please go to the 2023 Junior Book Nominees tab.)

 

NEXT YEAR'S AWARDS:  Submit your favorites for 2024  

Kids should use THIS FORM or go to the tab at the top of the page to submit their favorites.  This is not where kids should vote for this year's award.

Librarians/Teachers:  please submit the votes you collected from your students/patrons using the Librarian Vote Tally Form located on the Librarian/Teacher Resource page

2022 Winners Accept Awards

Mike Boldt accepts the 2022 North Carolina Children's Picture Book Award for Bad Dog. 

Jerry Craft accepts the 2022 North Carolina Children's Junior Book Award for New Kid. 

Favorites for 2024 Awards

 Submit your favorite for 2024

We are starting to collect the titles of your favorite books published in the past three years for the 2024 North Carolina Children's Book Awards!  Nominations are submitted by the children of North Carolina in grades K-6th.  Teachers and librarians may help children enter their nominations, but no teacher or librarian should enter their own favorites.  (Titles with publication dates of 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023)

Kids may nominate more than one favorite. 


Activities for the 2023 Nominees are ready!

We are excited to present read-alouds, book trailers, book talks and activities for the 2023 North Carolina Children's Book Award Nominees. Voting begins on March 1, 2023.  

Activities for all 2023 Nominees

2023 Nominee flyer with covers (can be used as ballot)

Picture Book Nominees

Children may vote for their favorite title if they have read at least 5 of the 12 nominees. 

eBooks and eAudiobooks available through NC Kids digital library.  


The Box Turtle Read-aloud

The Box Turtle Activities

 The Boy Who Grew a Forest Read-aloud

  The Boy Who Grew a Forest Activities

Dozens of Doughnuts Read-aloud

Dozens of Doughnuts Activities

Eat Your Rocks, Croc! Read-aloud

Eat Your Rocks, Croc! Activities

Except Antarctica! Read-aloud

Except Antarctica! Activities

How to Give Your Cat a Bath Read-aloud

How to Give Your Cat a Bath Activities

I'm Trying to Love Garbage Read-aloud

I'm Trying to Love Garbage Activities

It Fell From the Sky Read-aloud

It Fell From the Sky Activities

Mars! Earthlings Welcome Read-aloud

Mars! Earthlings Welcome Activities

Nigel and the Moon Read-aloud

Nigel and the Moon Activities
 

A Song of Frutas Read-aloud

A Song of Frutas Activities

Watercress Read-aloud

Watercress Activities


Junior Book Nominees

Children may vote for their favorite title if they have read at least 3 of the 10 nominees.  

eBooks and eAudiobooks available through NC Kids digital library.  

Amari and the Night Brothers Book Trailer

Amari and the Night Brothers Activities
Clean Getaway Book Trailer

Clean Getaway Activities
Flower Talk Book Trailer

Flower Talk Activities
How to Build an Insect Read-aloud

How to Build an Insect Activities
Katie the Catsitter Book Trailer

Katie the Catsitter Activities
A Place at the Table Book Trailer

A Place at the Table Activities
Rez Dogs Book Talk

Rez Dogs Activities
Skunk and Badger Book Trailer

Skunk and Badger Activities
Unplugged Book Trailer

Unplugged Activities
Willodeen Book Talk

Willodeen Activities
A Wolf Called Wander Book Trailer

A Wolf Called Wander Activities
The World Ends in April Book Trailer

The World Ends in April Activities



2023 Nominees

We are very pleased to announce the nominees for the 2023 North Carolina Children's Book Awards.  We selected twelve titles for both lists because of possible availability issues.  In order to vote, children should read at least 5 picture book nominees and/or 3 junior book nominees.

Annotated Picture Book list
Annotated Junior Book list

Picture Books

Junior Books

  • The Box Turtle
    Roeder, Vanessa..  New York : Dial Books, 2020.

  • The Boy Who Grew a Forest: The True Story of Jadav Payeng
    Gholz, Sophia. Illustrated by Kayla Harren.   Sleeping Bear Press, 2019.

  • Dozens of Doughnuts
    Finison, Carrie. Illustrated by Brianne Farley.  G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2020.

  • Eat Your Rocks, Croc!
    Keating, Jess. Illustrated by Pete Oswald.  New York : Orchard Books, 2020.

  • Except Antarctica!
    Sturgell, Todd.  Naperville, IL : Sourcebooks Explore, 2021.

  • How to Give Your Cat a Bath in Five Easy Steps
    Winstanley, Nicola. Illustrated by John Martz.   Toronto, ON : Tundra Books, 2019.

  • I'm Trying to Love Garbage
    Barton, Bethany.  New York : Viking Books for Young Readers, 2021.

  • It Fell From the Sky
    Fan, Terry and Eric.  New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2021.

  • Mars! Earthlings Welcome
    McAnulty, Stacy. Illustrated by Stevie Lewis.  New York : Henry Holt & Co., 2021.

  • Nigel and the Moon
    Eady, Antwan. Illustrated by Gracey Zhang.   New York : Katherine Tegen Books, 2022.

  • A Song of Frutas
    Engle, Margarita. Illustrated by Sara Palacios.   New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2021.

  • Watercress
    Wang, Andrea. Illustrated by Jason Chin.  New York : Neal Porter Books, 2021.

  • Amari and the Night Brothers
    Alston, B.B..  New York : Balzer + Bray, 2021.

  • Clean Getaway
    Stone, Nic.  New York : Crown Books for Young Readers, 2020.

  • Flower Talk: How Plants Use Color to Communicate
    Levine, Sara.  Illustrated by Masha D'yans. Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, 2019.

  • How to Build an Insect
    Gibson, Roberta. Illustrated by Anne Lambelet.  Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, 2021.

  • Katie the Catsitter
    Venable, Colleen AF. Illustrated by Stephanie Yue.   New York : Random House Children's Books, 2021.

  • A Place at the Table
    Faruqi, Saadia and Laura Shovan.   Boston : Clarion Books, 2020.

  • Rez Dogs
    Bruchac, Joseph.   New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2021.

  • Skunk and Badger
    Timberlake, Amy. Illustrated by Jon Klassen.   Chapel Hill, NC ; Algonquin Young Readers, 2020.

  • Unplugged
    Korman, Gordon.  New York : Balzer + Bray, 2021.

  • Willodeen
    Applegate, Katherine.  New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2021.

  • A Wolf Called Wander
    Parry, Rosanne.  New York : Greenwillow Books, 2019.

  • The World Ends in April
    McAnulty, Stacy.  New York : Random House Books for Young Readers, 2019.