Winners
- The Book that Eats People, written by John Perry, illustrated by Mark Fearing, is the winner in the Picture Book category with 40,912 of the 118,499 votes cast.
- The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, by Tom Angleberger, is the winner in the Junior Book category with 2,305 votes of the 11,921 votes cast.
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Voting Summary
| PICTURE BOOKS: 118,499 total votes cast | |
| The Book That Eats People | 40912 WINNER |
| Shark vs. Train | 20092 |
| I Didn't Do It! | 11975 |
| Interrupting Chicken | 8472 |
| Sylvie | 7476 |
| Spoon | 7226 |
| Willow | 6961 |
| City Dog, Country Frog | 5963 |
| Mr. Duck Means Business | 3287 |
| What The Ladybug Heard | 2422 |
| Ruth and the Green Book | 1876 |
| Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave | 1837 |
2012 Annotated Picture Book List
| JUNIOR BOOKS: 11,921 total votes cast | |
| The Strange Case of Origami Yoda | 2305 WINNER |
| A Tale Dark and Grimm | 1965 |
| Runaway Twin | 1411 |
| Mirror Mirror | 1124 |
| Drizzle | 894 |
| Scumble | 859 |
| Countdown | 744 |
| Spaceheadz #1 | 655 |
| The Nine Pound Hammer | 634 |
| Touch Blue | 558 |
| Keeper | 471 |
| Moon Over Manifest | 301 |