Kids Favorite Books as Selected by Kids
The finalists for the 5th Annual Children’s Choice Book Awards, the only national book awards program where the winning titles are selected by children and teens of all ages, are in! And YOU, the reader, determine the best kids’ books! There are books ranging from picture books, graphic novels, early chapter books to chapter books for ages 4 through 10 or grades Kindergarten through 4th grade. Please vote and have your kids vote too!
Voting opens online March 14 at bookweekonline.com and runs through May 3.
Winners will be announced live during the Children’s Choice Book Awards Gala on May 7 in NYC. For the first time this year, footage of the entire ceremony, featuring award presentations by kid lit heavyweights Jarrett Krosoczka, Marc Brown, Mary Pope Osborne, S.E. Hinton, and many more will be available in its entirety on the CBC site on May 8. Host a Gala viewing party in your school, library, bookstore, or home!
p.s. If you are looking for more books like these, try:
Best Books for Boy Readers, Reluctant or Otherwise: Part 1 (Authors by Last Name A-L)
Best Books for Boy Readers, Reluctant or Otherwise: Part 2 (Authors by Last Name M-Z)
Best Books for Boy Readers, Reluctant or Otherwise: Part 3 (Non-Fiction)
Best Graphic Novels for Readers, Reluctant or Otherwise (ages 3-16)
Author of the Year (for Chapter Books)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever byJeff Kinney
Inheritance (Inheritance Cycle, Book 4) by Christopher Paolini
Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life by James Patterson
The Son of Neptune [The Heroes of Olympus Book 2] by Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson chapter book series, Part 2)
Tales from a Not-So-Talented Pop Star (Dork Diaries #3) by Rachel Renee Russell
Illustrator of the Year (for Picture Books)
If You Give a Dog a Donut by Laura Numeroff
The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse by Eric Carle
Llama Llama Home with Mama by Anna Dewdney
Silverlicious (Pinkalicious) by Victoria Kann
Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
Kindergarten to 2nd Grade Picture Book of the Year
Bailey bu Harry Bliss
Dot by Patricia Intriago
Pirates Don’t Take Baths by John Segal
Three Hens and a Peacock by Henry Cole
Zombie in Love by Kelly DiPucchio
3rd to 4th Grade Chapter Books and Graphic Novels of the Year
Bad Kitty Meets the Baby by Nick Bruel
A Funeral in the Bathroom: and Other School Bathroom Poems by Kalli Dakos
The Monstrous Book of Monsters by Libby Hamilton
Sidekicks by Dan Santat
Squish #1: Super Amoeba by Matthew Holm (graphic novel)
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My books:
Amazon / Signed or Inscribed by Me
Amazon / Signed or Inscribed by Me
Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World
- Junior Library Guild Gold selection
- Massachusetts Book Award Long List
- Selected as one of 100 Outstanding Picture Books of 2023 by dPICTUS and featured at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair
- Starred review from School Library Journal
- Chicago Library’s Best of the Best
- 2023 INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist
- Green Earth Book Award Long List
- Imagination Soup’s 35 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 for Kids
Amazon / Barefoot Books / Signed or Inscribed by Me
Amazon / Scholastic / Signed or Inscribed by Me
I did not know about these awards, but I’ll go vote with my daughter after school. Very cool stuff.
To Craftwhack,
It’s really fun to vote! I hope your daughter enjoyed it! Some great books on the list.
Ohh! Will have to mention this on the school blog!
To The Brain Lair,
Thanks so much for telling the students at your school. I think it will be fun for them to vote for their favorite books!
Thanks God this books exist. Without them i would left with stupid cartoons…which strangely kids really like..but i dont blame them – they take everything new as right and legit…
To Cindy,
I hope you have time to get your kids to vote for their favorite books. My kids loved the idea that their vote counts for a book award! No one asked them before.