Mike Boldt accepts the 2022 North Carolina Children's Picture Book Award for Bad Dog.
Jerry Craft accepts the 2022 North Carolina Children's Junior Book Award for New Kid.
The North Carolina Children's Book Award program is a children's choice program designed to introduce children to current children's literature and to instill a love of reading. The award is sponsored by the North Carolina Library Association's Youth Services Section and supported by school and public librarians across the state.
Mike Boldt accepts the 2022 North Carolina Children's Picture Book Award for Bad Dog.
Jerry Craft accepts the 2022 North Carolina Children's Junior Book Award for New Kid.
We are starting to collect the titles of your favorite books published in the past three years for the 2024 North Carolina Children's Book Awards!
Nominations are submitted by the children of North Carolina in grades K-6th. Teachers
and librarians may help children enter their nominations, but no teacher or librarian should enter their own favorites. (Titles with publication dates of 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023)
Kids may nominate more than one favorite.
We are excited to present read-alouds, book trailers, book talks and activities for the 2023 North Carolina Children's Book Award Nominees. Voting begins on March 1, 2023.
Activities for all 2023 Nominees
Children may vote for their favorite title if they have read at least 5 of the 12 nominees.
eBooks and eAudiobooks available through NC Kids digital library.
Children may vote for their favorite title if they have read at least 3 of the 10 nominees.
eBooks and eAudiobooks available through NC Kids digital library.
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The votes have been collected and tallied! We have our winners for the 2022 North Carolina Children's Book Awards. For the complete results, please visit the 2022 Results and Materials page.
Bad Dog, written and illustrated by Mike Boldt, is the winner of the picture book category with 13,534 votes.
The committee will be meeting mid-May to select the nominees for the 2023 Awards. Check back in again soon!