2023 Winners
- The Box Turtle, written and illustrated by Vanessa Roeder, is the winner in the Picture Book Category, receiving 10,421 of the 64,264 total votes cast.
- Unplugged, written by Gordon Korman, is the winner in the Junior Book Category, receiving 772 of the 4,809 total votes cast.
2023 Activity Booklet
2023 Annotated Picture Book List
2023 Annotated Junior Book List
Voting Summary
| PICTURE BOOKS: 64,264 total votes cast | |
| The Box Turtle |
10,421 WINNER |
| How to Give Your Cat a Bath in Five Easy Steps |
9,817 |
| Dozens of Doughnuts |
7,926 |
| Mars! Earthlings Welcome |
6,408 |
| The Boy Who Grew a Forest: The True Story of Jadav Payeng |
6,169 |
| Except Antarctica! |
5,401 |
| Eat Your Rocks, Croc! |
4,553 |
| I'm Trying to Love Garbage |
3,568 |
| It Fell From the Sky |
3,380 |
| Watercress |
2,876 |
| A Song of Frutas |
2,272 |
| Nigel and the Moon |
1,473 |
| JUNIOR BOOKS: 4,809 total votes cast | |
| Unplugged |
772 WINNER |
| Amari and the Night Brothers |
648 |
| A Wolf Called Wander |
560 |
| Katie the Catsitter |
547 |
| Flower Talk: How Plants Use Color to Communicate |
494 |
| The World Ends in April |
459 |
| Clean Getaway |
386 |
| Willodeen |
249 |
| A Place at the Table |
223 |
| How to Build an Insect |
213 |
| Rez Dogs |
162 |
| Skunk and Badger |
96 |
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