2020 Winners
- Can I Be Your Dog?, written and illustrated by Troy Cummings, is the winner in the Picture Book Category, receiving 5,377 of the 20,003 total votes cast.
- Front Desk, by Kelly Yang, is the winner in the Junior Book Category, receiving 532 of the 2,661 total votes cast.
2020 Activity Booklet
2020 Annotated Book Lists
Author Troy Cummings accepts award for Can I Be Your Dog?
Author Kelly Yang accepts award for Front Desk
Voting Summary
| PICTURE BOOKS: 20,003 total votes cast | |
| Can I Be Your Dog? | 5,377 WINNER |
| Potato Pants! | 2,868 |
| Misunderstood Shark: Starring Shark! | 2,357 |
| The Very Impatient Caterpillar | 2,248 |
| We Don't Eat Our Classmates | 2,069 |
| Mixed: A Colorful Story | 1,976 |
| Because | 1,080 |
| The Crayon Man: The True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons | 897 |
| The Rooster Who Would Not Be Quiet | 698 |
| The Word Collector | 433 |
| JUNIOR BOOKS: 2,661 total votes cast | |
| Front Desk | 532 WINNER |
| Ban This Book | 372 |
| Saving Fiona: The Story of the World's Most Famous Baby Hippo | 371 |
| Breakout | 296 |
| Be Prepared | 234 |
| Miscalculations of Lightning Girl | 220 |
| A Boy Called Bat | 184 |
| Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History | 174 |
| Full of Beans | 162 |
| Float | 116 |
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Because by Mo Willems (illus. Amber Ren)
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Can I Be Your Dog? by Troy Cummings
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The Crayon Man: the true story of the invention of Crayola Crayons by Natascha Biebow (illus. Steven Salerno)
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Misunderstood Shark: Starring Shark! by Ame Dyckman (illus. Scott Magoon)
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Mixed: a colorful story by Arree Chung
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Potato Pants! by Laurie Keller
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The Rooster Who Would Not Be Quiet by Carmen Agra Deedy (illus. Eugene Yelchin)
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The Very Impatient Caterpillar by Ross Burach
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We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins
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The Word Collector by Peter H. Reynolds
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| Bat Book Trailer | Prep Book Trailer | Leaders Book Trailer |
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| Beans Book Trailer | Float Book Trailer | Lightning Book Trailer |
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| Breakout Book Trailer | Front Desk Book Trailer | Ban Book Trailer |
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| Fiona Book Trailer |