2022 Picture and Junior Book Nominees

We are very pleased to announce the nominees for the 2022 North Carolina Children's Book Awards.  Activities, read-alongs and book trailers will be ready soon!

Annotated Picture Book list
Annotated Junior Book list

Picture Books

Junior Books

Bad Dog Boldt, Mike.  New York : Doubleday Books for Young Readers, 2019. Carl and the Meaning of Life Freedman, Deborah. New York : Viking Books for Young Readers, 2019. Don’t Feed the Coos Stutzman, Jonathan. Illustrated by Heather Fox. New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2020. Eye by Eye: Comparing How Animals See Levine, Sara. Illustrated by T.S. Spookytooth. Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, 2020. Eyes That Kiss in the Corners. Ho, Joanna. Illustrated by Dung Ho.  New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021. Facts vs. Opinions vs. Robots. Rex, Michael.   New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2020. Federico and the Wolf Gomez, Rebecca J.. Illustrated by Elisa Chavarri.  Boston ; New York : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. Just Ask! Be Different, Be Brave, Be You Sotomayor, Sonia. Illustrated by Rafael López. New York : Philomel Books, 2019. The Little Red Fort Maier, Brenda. Illustrated by Sonia Sánchez. New York : Scholastic Press, 2018. On Account of the Gum Rex, Adam. San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books, 2020. Snail Crossing Tabor, Corey R.. New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020. Swashby and the Sea Ferry, Beth. Illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal.   New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.

The Friendship War Clements, Andrew.  New York : Random House, 2019. Halfway to Harmony O'Connor, Barbara.  New York : Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, 2021. Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks Reynolds, Jason. Illus. Alexander Nabaum. New York : A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book/Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2019. Mañanaland Ryan, Pam Muñoz. New York : Scholastic Press, 2020. New Kid Craft, Jerry.   New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2019. Not If I Can Help It Mackler, Carolyn.   New York : Scholastic Press, 2019. Swish: The Slam-dunking, Alley-ooping, High-flying Harlem Globetrotters Slade, Suzanne. Illustrated by Don Tate.   New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. Twenty-one Steps: Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Gottesfeld, Jeff. Illustrated by Matt Tavares.   Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2021. When Stars Are Scattered Jamieson, Victoria and Omar Mohamed.  New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2020. Where the Watermelons Grow Baldwin, Cindy.  New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.