Amazon Editors' Picks - Children's Books (Awarded by amazon.com)

Awards List

2023

The Lost Library
(Winner)
Wendy Mass; Rebecca Stead

The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels
(*)
Beth Lincoln

Agents of S.U.I.T.
(*)
John Patrick Green

Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea
(*)
Dav Pilkey

Big
(*)
Vashti Harrison

The Eyes and the Impossible
(*)
Dave Eggers

The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish
(*)
Chloe Savage

The Skull
(*)
Jon Klassen

The Chalice of the Gods
(*)
Rick Riordan

The Imaginary Alphabet
(*)
Sylvie Daigneault

Just Because
(*)
Matthew McConaughey

Dragon's First Taco
(*)
Adam Rubin

Every Dreaming Creature
(*)
Brendan Wenzel

If I Was a Horse
(*)
Sophie Blackall

The Puppets of Spelhorst
(*)
Kate DiCamillo

Remember Us
(*)
Jacqueline Woodson

Something, Someday
(*)
Amanda Gorman

Taking Flight!
(*)
Sherri Duskey Rinker

Wrecker
(*)
Carl Hiaasen

2022

The Door of No Return
(Winner)
Kwame Alexander

Here We Are
(*)
Oliver Jeffers

Rumble, Rumble, Dinosaur
(*)
Katrina Charman

I'm Not Scared, You're Scared
(*)
Seth Meyers

Knight Owl
(*)
Christopher Denise

The Ogress and the Orphans
(*)
Kelly Barnhill

Skandar and the Unicorn Thief
(*)
A.F. Steadman

Little Blue Truck Makes A Friend
(*)
Alice Schertle

The Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster!
(*)
Mo Willems

Wildoak
(*)
C.C. Harrington

Grumpy Monkey Who Threw That?
(*)
Suzanne Lang

Sisterhood of Sleuths
(*)
Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

The Three Billy Goats Gruff
(*)
Mac Barnett

Two Degrees
(*)
Alan M. Gratz

Diper Overlode
(*)
Jeff Kinney

Farming Strong, All Year Long
(*)
Sherri Duskey Rinker

The Greatest in the World!
(*)
Ben Clanton

Collaborations
(*)
Dav Pilkey

2021

The Beatryce Prophecy
(Winner)
Kate DiCamillo

The Monsters of Rookhaven
(*)
Padraig Kenny

Amari and the Night Brothers
(*)
B.B. Alston

Eyes That Kiss in the Corners
(*)
Joanna Ho

Mothering Heights
(*)
Dav Pilkey

Starfish
(*)
Lisa Fipps

Change Sings
(*)
Amanda Gorman

Egg Marks the Spot
(*)
Amy Timberlake

Every Little Kindness
(*)
Marta Bartolj

It Fell from the Sky
(*)
Terry Fan; Eric Fan

The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne
(*)
Jonathan Stroud

Pony
(*)
R.J. Palacio

Road Crew, Coming Through!
(*)
Sherri Duskey Rinker

Woodland Dance
(*)
Sandra Boynton

Born on the Water
(*)
Nikole Hannah-Jones

Daughter of the Deep
(*)
Rick Riordan

Gladys the Magic Chicken
(*)
Adam Rubin

Out of My Heart
(*)
Sharon M. Draper

Room for Everyone
(*)
Naaz Khan

Stuntboy, in the Meantime
(*)
Jason Reynolds

2020

All Because You Matter
(Winner)
Tami Charles

What Will You Dream of Tonight?
(*)
Frances Stickley

The Old Truck
(*)
Jarrett Pumphrey; Jerome Pumphrey

Be You!
(*)
Peter H. Reynolds

Black Brother, Black Brother
(*)
Jewell Parker Rhodes

When Stars Are Scattered
(*)
Victoria Jamieson; Omar Mohamed

The One and Only Bob
(*)
Katherine Applegate

AntiRacist Baby
(*)
Ibram X. Kendi

Paola Santiago and the River of Tears
(*)
Tehlor Kay Mejia

The Barnabus Project
(*)
Terry Fan; Eric Fan

Before the Ever After
(*)
Jacqueline Woodson

Every Night Is Pizza Night
(*)
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

I Am Every Good Thing
(*)
Derrick Barnes

Premeditated Myrtle
(*)
Elizabeth C. Bunce

The Silver Arrow
(*)
Lev Grossman

Skunk and Badger
(*)
Amy Timberlake

The Suitcase
(*)
Chris Naylor-Ballesteros

Willa the Wisp
(*)
Jonathan Auxier

Cat Kid Comic Club
(*)
Dav Pilkey

2019

Dear Sweet Pea
(Winner)
Julie Murphy

The Neighbors
(*)
Einat Tsarfati

The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
(*)
Dan Gemeinhart

Rumple Buttercup
(*)
Matthew Gray Gubler

The Pigeon HAS to Go to School!
(*)
Mo Willems

Truman
(*)
Jean Reidy

For Whom the Ball Rolls
(*)
Dav Pilkey

How Do You Dance?
(*)
Thyra Heder

Beverly, Right Here
(*)
Kate DiCamillo

Guts
(*)
Raina Telgemeier

Just Because
(*)
Mac Barnett

The Proudest Blue
(*)
Ibtihaj Muhammad

The Hippo at the End of the Hall
(*)
Helen Cooper

Look Both Ways
(*)
Jason Reynolds

Roll with It
(*)
Jamie Sumner

Sulwe
(*)
Lupita Nyong'o

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
(*)
Kwame Mbalia

White Bird
(*)
R.J. Palacio

Why?
(*)
Adam Rex

Award Categories

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Mysteries & Thrillers

Mysteries & Thrillers: Series

Romance

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Teen & Young Adult

Award Years

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019