North Carolina Children's Book Award - Picture Book

Awards List

2016

Some Bugs
(Nominee)
Angela DiTerlizzi

Gravity
(Nominee)
Jason Chin

Gaston
(Nominee)
Kelly DiPucchio

My Teacher Is a Monster! (No, I Am Not.)
(Nominee)
Peter Brown

This Orq. (He Cave Boy.)
(Nominee)
David Elliott

Blue on Blue
(Nominee)
Dianne White

Last Stop on Market Street
(Nominee)
Matt De La Pena

2015

The Day the Crayons Quit
(Winner)
Drew Daywalt

Who Pushed Humpty Dumpty?
(Nominee)
David Levinthal

What's the Time, Mr. Wolf?
(Nominee)
Debi Gliori

The Dark
(Nominee)
Lemony Snicket

That Is Not a Good Idea!
(Nominee)
Mo Willems

The Day the Crayons Quit
(Nominee)
Drew Daywalt

Sophie's Squash
(Nominee)
Pat Zietlow Miller

Mr. Tiger Goes Wild
(Nominee)
Peter Brown

This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Woodson

The Snatchabook
(Nominee)
Helen Docherty

Hi, Koo!
(Nominee)
Jon J. Muth

2014

The Haunted Hamburger and Other Ghostly Stories
(Winner)
David LaRochelle

Me... Jane
(Nominee)
Patrick McDonnell

Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake
(Nominee)
Michael B. Kaplan

Baby Bear Sees Blue
(Nominee)
Ashley Wolff

When Blue Met Egg
(Nominee)
Lindsay Ward

Goldilocks and Just the One Bear
(Nominee)
Leigh Hodgkinson

Bear Has a Story to Tell
(Nominee)
Philip Christian Stead

Creepy Carrots!
(Nominee)
Aaron Reynolds

Oh, No!
(Nominee)
Candace Fleming

Each Kindness
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Woodson

Too Tall Houses
(Nominee)
Gianna Marino

2013

I Love My White Shoes
(Winner)
Eric Litwin

LMNO Peas
(Nominee)
Keith Baker

The Cow Loves Cookies
(Nominee)
Karma Wilson

Won Ton
(Nominee)
Lee Wardlaw

Perfect Square
(Nominee)
Michael Hall

Blackout
(Nominee)
John Rocco

Ellen's Broom
(Nominee)
Kelly Starling Lyons

Otto the Book Bear
(Nominee)
Katie Cleminson

2012

The Book That Eats People
(Winner)
John Perry

Willow
(Nominee)
Denise Brennan-Nelson

Spoon
(Nominee)
Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Shark vs. Train
(Nominee)
Chris Barton

What the Ladybug Heard
(Nominee)
Julia Donaldson

City Dog, Country Frog
(Nominee)
Mo Willems

Interrupting Chicken
(Nominee)
David Ezra Stein

Ruth And The Green Book
(Nominee)
Calvin A. Ramsey

I Didn't Do It
(Nominee)
Patricia MacLachlan

2011

Rhyming Dust Bunnies
(Winner)
Jan Thomas

Shante Keys and the New Year's Peas
(Nominee)
Gail Piernas-Davenport

The Great Smelly, Slobbery, Small-Tooth Dog: A Folktale from Great Britain
(Nominee)
Margaret Read Macdonald

I Got Two Dogs
(Nominee)
John Lithgow

Tsunami!
(Nominee)
Kimiko Kajikawa

The Curious Garden
(Nominee)
Peter Brown

The Circus Ship
(Nominee)
Chris Van Dusen

The Delicious Bug
(Nominee)
Janet Perlman

Let's Do Nothing!
(Nominee)
Tony Fucile

How Do You Wokka-Wokka?
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Bluemle

2010

Sally Jean, the Bicycle Queen
(Nominee)
Cari Best

When Dinosaurs Came with Everything
(Nominee)
Elise Broach

Woolbur
(Nominee)
Leslie Helakoski

Splat the Cat
(Nominee)
Rob Scotton

Doghouse
(Nominee)
Jan Thomas

Katie Loves the Kittens
(Nominee)
John Himmelman

Abe's Honest Words
(Nominee)
Doreen Rappaport

A Visitor for Bear
(Nominee)
Bonny Becker

2009

Who Is Melvin Bubble?
(Winner)
Nick Bruel

Henry's Freedom Box
(Nominee)
Ellen Levine

Mr. Pusskins
(Nominee)
Sam Lloyd

The Perfect Nest
(Nominee)
Catherine Friend

Big Bad Wolves at School
(Nominee)
Stephen Krensky

Dogku
(Nominee)
Andrew Clements

Snow Day!
(Nominee)
Lester L. Laminack

2008

Scaredy Squirrel
(Winner)
Melanie Watt

The Great Fuzz Frenzy
(Nominee)
Janet Stevens; Susan Stevens Crummel

Leonardo, the Terrible Monster
(Nominee)
Mo Willems

Superhero ABC
(Nominee)
Bob Mcleod

Max's Words
(Nominee)
Kate Banks

Wolves
(Nominee)
Emily Gravett

A Frog Thing
(Nominee)
Eric Drachman

2007

Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude
(Winner)
Kevin O'Malley

Dad, Jackie, and Me
(Nominee)
Myron Uhlberg

I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!
(Nominee)
Karen Beaumont

Snip Snap! What's That?
(Nominee)
Mara Bergman

Three Silly Billies
(Nominee)
Margie Palatini

Leaf Man
(Nominee)
Lois Ehlert

Show Way
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Woodson

Bad Kitty
(Nominee)
Nick Bruel

If You Decide to Go to the Moon
(Nominee)
Faith McNulty

2006

My Lucky Day
(Winner)
Keiko Kasza

The Dot
(Nominee)
Peter H. Reynolds

Armadilly Chili
(Nominee)
Helen Ketteman

Falling for Rapunzel
(Nominee)
Leah Wilcox

Wallace's Lists
(Nominee)
Barbara Bottner

Wild About Books
(Nominee)
Judy Sierra

Apples to Oregon
(Nominee)
Deborah Hopkinson

Coming on Home Soon
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Woodson

Manana, Iguana
(Nominee)
Ann Whitford Paul

Pinduli
(Nominee)
Janell Cannon

2005

Bad Boys
(Winner)
Margie Palatini

Petite Rouge
(Nominee)
Mike Artell

With Love, Little Red Hen
(Nominee)
Alma Flor Ada

Snowmen at Night
(Nominee)
Caralyn Buehner

Souperchicken
(Nominee)
Mary Jane Auch / M.J. Auch

Jackalope
(Nominee)
Janet Stevens; Susan Stevens Crummel

Diary of a Worm
(Nominee)
Doreen Cronin

Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook
(Nominee)
Michael Garland

How I Became a Pirate
(Nominee)
Melinda Long

2004

Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs
(Winner)
Alan Katz

Juan Bobo Goes to Work
(Nominee)
Marisa Montes

The Old Man and the Flea
(Nominee)
Mary Elizabeth Hanson

Anansi and the Magic Stick
(Nominee)
Eric A. Kimmel

Bear Snores On
(Nominee)
Karma Wilson

Daisy Comes Home
(Nominee)
Jan Brett

Recess Queen
(Nominee)
Alexis O'Neill

Duck on a Bike
(Nominee)
David Shannon

Epossumondas
(Nominee)
Coleen Salley

Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!
(Nominee)
Candace Fleming

2003

More Parts
(Winner)
Tedd Arnold

Dory Story
(Nominee)
Jerry Pallotta

The Other Side
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Woodson

Mice and Beans
(Nominee)
Pam Munoz Ryan

Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon
(Nominee)
Patty Lovell

Clever Beatrice
(Nominee)
Margaret Willey

2002

A Bad Case of Stripes
(Winner)
David Shannon

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
(Nominee)
Doreen Cronin

The Memory String
(Nominee)
Eve Bunting

Enemy Pie
(Nominee)
Derek Munson

Quiltmaker's Gift
(Nominee)
Jeff Brumbeau

Weslandia
(Nominee)
Paul Fleischman

2001

Hooway for Wodney Wat
(Winner)
Helen Lester

No Such Thing
(Nominee)
Jackie French Koller

Parts
(Nominee)
Tedd Arnold

I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie
(Nominee)
Alison Jackson

Mouse Mess
(Nominee)
Linnea Riley

Hey, Little Ant
(Nominee)
Phillip M. Hoose; Hannah Hoose

When Sophie Gets Angry -- Really, Really Angry...
(Nominee)
Molly Bang

Wolf
(Nominee)
Becky Bloom

Cook-a-Doodle-Doo!
(Nominee)
Janet Stevens; Susan Stevens Crummel

Bark, George
(Nominee)
Jules Feiffer

2000

The Seven Silly Eaters
(Nominee)
Mary Ann Hoberman

The Crayon Box That Talked
(Nominee)
Shane Derolf

Bubba the Cowboy Prince
(Nominee)
Helen Ketteman

Grandpa's Teeth
(Nominee)
Rod Clement

Measuring Penny
(Nominee)
Loreen Leedy

The Things That Are Most In the World
(Nominee)
Judi Barrett

Stella Louella's Runaway Book
(Nominee)
Lisa Campbell Ernst

Pete's a Pizza
(Nominee)
William Steig

Barefoot
(Nominee)
Pamela Duncan Edwards

1999

Verdi
(Winner)
Janell Cannon

1998

Roses Are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink
(Winner)
Diane deGroat

1997

Officer Buckle and Gloria
(Winner)
Peggy Rathmann

1996

The Man Who Tricked a Ghost
(Winner)
Laurence Yep

1995

The Rainbow Fish
(Winner)
Marcus Pfister

1994

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
(Winner)
Jon Scieszka

1993

Seven Chinese Brothers
(Winner)
Margaret Mahy

1992

In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories
(Winner)
Alvin Schwartz

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