2019-20 Picture Book and Junior Book Nominees

We are very pleased to announce the nominees for the 2019-2020 North Carolina Children's Book Awards. 

Picture Books

Junior Books

Because Willems, Mo. Illustrated by Amber Ren.  New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2019. Can I Be Your Dog? Cummings, Troy. New York: Random House Books for Young Readers, 2018. The Crayon Man: The True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons Biebow, Natascha. Illustrated by Steven Salerno. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. Misunderstood Shark: Starring Shark! Dyckman, Ame. Illustrated by Scott Magoon. New York: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2018. Mixed: A Colorful Story Chung, Arree. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2018. Potato Pants! Keller, Laurie. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2018. The Rooster Who Would Not Be Quiet Deedy, Carmen Agra. Illustrated by Eugene Yelchin. New York: Scholastic Press, 2017. The Very Impatient Caterpillar Burach, Ross. New York: Scholastic Press, 2019. We Don't Eat Our Classmates Higgins, Ryan T.. Los Angeles: Disney-Hyperion, 2018. The Word Collector Reynolds, Peter H.. New York: Orchard Books, and imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2018.

Ban This Book Gratz, Alan. New York: Starscape, 2017. Be Prepared Brosgol, Vera. New York: First Second, 2018. Breakout Messner, Kate. New York: Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2018. A Boy Called Bat Arnold, Elana K.. New York: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2017. Float Martin, Laura. New York: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2018. Front Desk Yang, Kelly. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2018. Full of Beans Holm, Jennifer L.. New York: Random House Books for Young Readers, 2016. Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History Harrison, Vashti. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2017. Miscalculations of Lightning Girl McAnulty, Stacy. New York: Random House, 2018. Saving Fiona: The Story of the World's Most Famous Baby Hippo Maynard, Thane. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.