Picture Book of the Year Archive

• Garden of Lost Socks by Esi Edugyan
• Lonely Bird by Ruth Whiting
• Mole Is Not Alone by Maya Tatsukawa
• My Baba's Garden by Jordan Scott
• My Little Thief by Augusten Burroughs
• Otter Doesn't Know by Andrea Fritz
• Sari-Sari Summers by Lynnor Bontigao
• Stickler Loves the World by Lane Smith
• Too Many Pigs and One Big Bad Wolf by Davide Cali
• The Umbrella by Beth Ferry

• Bathe The Cat By Alice B. Mcginty
• Chickadee: Criminal Mastermind By Monica Silvie
• The Comet By Joe Todd-Stanton
• Just Like Grandma By Kim Rogers
• Lost By Sam Usher
• Mina By Matthew Forsythe
• My Powerful Hair By Carole Lindstrom
• The Sour Grape By Jory John
• This Story Is Not About A Kitten By Randall De Sève

2023 - Invasion of the Unicorns by David Biedrzycki
Nominees:

• Bear is a Bear by Jonathon Stutzman
• The Fox and the Forest Fire by Danny Popovici
• Friends are Friends, Forever by Dane Liu
• Imagine a Wolf: What do you see? by Lucky Platt
• The Impossible Mountain by David Soman
• Norman Didn't Do it? by Ryan Higgins
• The Octopus Escapes by Maile Meloy
• Room for Everyone by Naaz Khaz
• Thunder and the Noise Storms by Jeffrey Ansloos

2022 - The Barnabus Project by Terry Fan, Eric Fan, and Devin Fan 
Nominees:

• Bear and the Moon by Matthew Burgess
• Bear Came Along by Richard T. Morris
• Golden Threads by Suzanne Del Rizzo
• I Talk Like a River by Jordan Scott
• Many Colors of Harpreet Singh by Supriya Kelkar
• My Day with Gong Gong by Sennah Yee
• Swashby and the Sea by Beth Ferry
• This Way, Charlie by Caron Levis
• Unicorns are the Worst by Alex Willan

2021 - Old Rock (is not boring) by Deb Pilutti (Winner)
Nominees:

• Hair love bby Matthew Cherry
• The love letter by Anika Denise
• Lubna and Pebble by Wendy Meddour
• One fox: a counting book thriller by Kate Read
• The scarecrow by Beth Ferry
• Small in the city by Sydney Smith
• Snail Crossing by Corey Tabor
• Thank you, Omu! by Oge Mora
• Truman by Jean Reidy

2020 - Potato pants by Laurie Keller (Winner)
Nominees:

• Doll-E 1.0 by Shanda McCloskey
• Feathers by Phil Cummings
• Found by Jeff Newman
• The neighbors by Einat Tsarfati
• Petra by Marianna Coppo
• The rabbit listened by Cori Doerrfeld
• The remember balloons by Jessie Oliveros
• Smoot by Michelle Cuevas
• The wall in the middle of the book by Jon Agee

2019 - The Bad Seed by Jory John (Winner)
Nominees:

• After the fall : how Humpty Dumpty got back up again by Dan Santat
• Always remember by Cece Meng
• The antlered ship by Dashka Slater
• A cat named Swan by Holly Hobbie
• On a magical do-nothing day by Beatrice Alemagna
• Shelter by Céline Claire
• There's a bug on my arm that won't let go by David Mackintosh
• The thing Lou couldn't do by Ashley Spires
• The water princess by Susan Verde

2018 - Nope! by Drew Sheneman (Winner)
Nominees:

• The branch by Mireille Messier
• The darkest dark by Chris Hadfield
• The fabulous friend machine by Nick Bland
• Faraway fox by Jolene Thompson
• The great AAA-OOO! by Jonny Lambert
• A hungry lion, or, a dwindling assortment of animals by Lucy Ruth Cummins
• The Night Gardener by Terry Fan
• They all saw a cat by Brendan Wenzel
• Thunder Boy Jr. by Sherman Alexie

2017 - Finding Winnie : the true story of the world's most famous bear by Lindsay Mattick (Winner)
Nominees:

• If you plant a seed by Kadir Nelson
• Job wanted by Teresa Bateman
• Last stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña
• Like a wolf by Géraldine Elschne
• Mother Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins
• Out of the woods : a true story of an unforgettable event by Rebecca Bond
• Wanted! : Ralfy Rabbit, book burglar by Emily MacKenzie
• What James said by Liz Rosenberg

2016 - Lion vs. Rabbit by Alex Latimer (Winner)
Nominees:

• The cat, the dog, Little Red, the exploding eggs, the wolf, and Grandma by Diane Fox
• Dolphin SOS by Roy Miki
• Ivan : the remarkable true story of the shopping mall gorilla by Katherine Applegate
• Mogie : the heart of the house by Kathi Appelt
• The promise by Nicola Davies
• Shh! We have a plan by Chris Haughton
• Shoe dog by Megan McDonald
• Telephone by Mac Barnett
• You call that brave? by Lorenz Pauli

2015 - The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt (Winner)
Nominees:

• The black rabbit by Philippa Leathers
• Going Places by Peter H. Reynolds
• The Hermit Crab by Carter Goodrich
• It's an Orange Aardvark by Michael Hall
• Lost cat by C. Roger Mader
• The man with the violin by Karhy Stinson
• Spike: Ugliest dog in the universe by Debra Frasier
• That is Not a Good Idea! by Mo Willems
• Up the Creek by Nicholas Oldland

2014 - Dangerously ever after by Dashka Slater (Winner)
Nominees:

• Creepy carrots! by Aaron Reynolds
• Lark by Ashley Spires
• Lucky ducklings by Eva Moore
• Nightsong by Ari Berk
• Ralph tells a story by Abby Hanlon
• Step gently out by Rick Lieder
• Stuck by Oliver Jeffers
• This is not my hat by Jon Klassen
• Too tall houses by Gianna Marino

2013 - The Jewel Fish of Karnak by Graeme Base (Winner)
Nominees:

• Earth to Clunk by Pam Smallcomb
• The First Mosquito by Caroll Simpson
• Little Owl Lost by Chris Haughton
• The Magic Brush by Kat Yeh
• Marshall Armstrong is New to Our School by David Mackintosh
• The Secret Message by Mina Javaherbin
• Swirl by Swirl by Joyce Sidman
• Won-Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku by Lee Wardlaw
• Stars by Mary Lyn Ray

2012 - Chalk by Bill Thomson (Winner)
Nominees:

• Big red lollipop by Rukhsana Khan by Cynthia von Buhler
• City Dog, Country Frog by Mo Willems
• Clever Jack Takes the Cake by Candace Fleming
• Giraffe and Bird by Rebecca Bender
• Goal! by Mina Javaherbin
• I Wanna New Room by Karen Kaufman Orloff
• Immi's Gift by Karin Littlewood
• Knuffle Bunny Free: an Unexpected Diversion by Mo Willems
• Wanted, the Perfect Pet by Fiona Robertson

2011 - Wink : the ninja who wanted to be noticed by J.C. Phillipps (Winner)
Nominees

• But who will bell the cats?
• The circus ship by Chris Van Dusen
• The curious garden by Peter Brown
• Finn throws a fit! by David Elliott
• The little hummingbird by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
• Lousy rotten stinkin' grapes by Margie Palatini
• Otis by Loren Long
• Sparrow girl by Sara Pennypacker
• Under the snow by Melissa Stewart

2010 - The pencil by Allan Ahlberg (Winner)
Nominees:

• Alfred's nose by Vivienne Flesher
• Bees, snails, & peacock tails by Betsy Franco
• Hogwood steps out by Howard Mansfield
• Most loved in all the world by Tonya Cherie Hegamin
• Posy by Linda Newbery
• The race of the century by Barry Downard
• Running shoes by Frederick Lipp
• Thing-thing by Cary Fagan
• A visitor for bear by Bonny Becker