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.