2023 Results and Materials

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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PICTURE BOOK Resources


The Box Turtle Activities
  The Boy Who Grew a Forest Activities

Dozens of Doughnuts Activities
Eat Your Rocks, Croc! Activities

Except Antarctica! Activities
How to Give Your Cat a Bath Activities

I'm Trying to Love Garbage Activities
It Fell From the Sky Activities

Mars! Earthlings Welcome Activities
Nigel and the Moon Activities 

A Song of Frutas Activities
Watercress Activities

JUNIOR BOOK Resources

Amari and the Night Brothers Activities Clean Getaway Activities
Flower Talk Activities How to Build an Insect Activities
Katie the Catsitter Activities A Place at the Table Activities
Rez Dogs Activities Skunk and Badger Activities
Unplugged Activities Willodeen Activities
A Wolf Called Wander Activities The World Ends in April Activities