Ladybug Picture Book Award

The Ladybug Picture Book Award is designed to promote early literacy and honor the best in recent children's picture books. A committee of children's librarians from around the state selects 10 picture book titles early in the year. Then, during November, New Hampshire children from preschoolers to those in third grade choose the award winner. The winning picture book is announced at the end of the year. The author and illustrator of the winning book will receive a crystal award created by Pepi Herrmann Crystal.


To be considered for nomination, a picture book must meet the following criteria:

• be published, in its current edition, within the last three years
• be in print
• have an author and illustrator both residing in the United States
• possess strong child appeal
• have artistic quality with text that supports the illustrations
• not be a title previously nominated

The 2015 nominees for the Ladybug Picture Book Award Are:

• Sleepover with Beatrice & Bear by Monica Carnesi (Nancy Paulsen Books)
• The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers (Philomel Books)
• This Orq (He Cave Boy) by David Elliott and Lori Nichols (Boyds Mills Press)
• Flight School by Lita Judge (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
• As an Oak Tree Grows by G. Brian Karas (Nancy Paulsen Books)
• The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig and Patrice Barton (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Maple by Lori Nichols (Nancy Paulsen Books)
• Blizzard by John Rocco (Disney/Hyperion)
• Three Bears in a Boat by David Soman (Dial Books for Young Readers)
• Mama Built a Little Nest by Jennifer Ward and Steve Jenkins (Beach Lane Books)  

And the 2015 winner is...
 
The Day the Crayons Quit 
by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers

click here to view the 2015 Ladybug Picture Book Award voting results flyer.