North Carolina Children's Book Award
The North Carolina Children’s Book Award program is a children’s choice program sponsored by school and public librarians in North Carolina and is designed to introduce children to current children’s literature and to instill a love of reading.
2015 Winners
2015 Winners
- The Day the Crayons Quit, written by Drew Daywalt and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers, is the winner in the Picture Book Category, receiving 27,010 of the 81,467 total votes cast.
- Duke, by Kirby Larson, is the winner in the Junior Book Category, receiving 1303 of the total 6,570 votes cast.
2016 North Carolina Children's Book Award Nominees
This is the official list of nominees released by the NCCBA Committee that will be reading this year in the library!
This is the official list of nominees released by the NCCBA Committee that will be reading this year in the library!
- Ivan: the Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla
Applegate, Katherine. G. Brian Karas (ill): Boston: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2014 - My Teacher is a Monster! (No, I am Not)
Brown, Peter: NY: Little Brown and Co. 2014 - The Cart That Carried Martin
Bunting, Eve. Don Tate (ill): Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge. 2013 - Gravity
Chin, Jason: NY: A Neal Porter Book, Roaring Brook Press. 2014 - Last Stop on Market Street
de la Peña, Matt . Christian Robinson (ill): NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons a Penguin Imprint. 2015 - Gaston
DiPucchio, Kelly. Christian Robinson (ill): NY: Atheneum Books for Young Readers. 2014 - Some Bugs
DiTerlizzi, Angela. Brendan Wenzel (ill): NY: Beach Lane Books. 2014 - This Orq. (He Cave Boy)
Elliott, David, Lori Nichols (ill): Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights. 2014 - Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors: the Story of Elizabeth Blackwell
Stone, Tanya Lee. Marjorie Priceman (ill.): NY: Henry Holt and Co. 2013 - Blue on Blue
White, Dianne. Beth Krommes (ill): NY: Beach Lane Books. 2014
ABOUT NCCBA
The North Carolina Children's Book Award began in 1992. Each year since then, school and public libraries participate in the process of selecting, studying and voting for the next winner! Members of the North Carolina Library Association's children's committee select a group of picture books and junior novels from suggestions submitted by North Carolinian school children. The list of books is then given to each school and public library throughout the state. During the course of the year, classroom teachers, media specialists and public librarians in North Carolina encourage children to become familiar with the nominees and vote for their favorite title in two categories: "Picture Book" and "Junior Book". The award is therefore truly a children's book award - selected by the children of the state of North Carolina!