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 each spring. 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 2023 Ladybug Picture Book Award winner is Noodle And The No Bones Day by Jonathan Graziano.
2024 Ladybug Nominees are:
We have all the Ladybug Award Nominees in the Picture Book Room. Read one today!
Every year in November, you can vote at the Wilton Public Library for your favorite Ladybug nominee.
Each spring, New Hampshire students in 4th through 6th grade can vote on their favorite from a list of 20 books. The winner becomes the recipient of the Great Stone Face Book Award. Kids can vote starting April 1 at The American Library Association website.
The winner for 2023 is Allergic by Alan Gratz
The winner for 2022 is Ground Zero by Alan Gratz
Nominees for the 2022-2023 award:
The Isinglass Award winner for 2024- This Golden State by Marit Weisenberg 
The Isinglass Award winner for 2023- Punching The Air by Ibi Zoboi
The Isinglass Teen Read Award promotes teen reading, the participation of teens in the creation of their own reading list, and honors those authors whose works speak to youth. Voting is done annually in April.
Titles must be nominated by teens in grades 7-8, can be fiction or nonfiction books, and must have a publication date within the last two years.
Current short list for 2025 on the shelf at the WPL:
Attack Of The Black Rectangles by A.S.King
Don't Want To Be Your Monster by Deke Moulton
The Impossible Escape by Steve Sheinkin
Royal Blood by Aimee Carter
Stateless by Elizabeth Wein
The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas
Sunshine by Jarrett Krosoczka
Zhara by S. Jae-Jones
And coming soon- Mascot by Charles Waters
You can order The Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar through interlibrary loan.
The Flume Award is given to books nominated by New Hampshire teens in grades 9-12.
The books must have a publication date within the last two years, and are nominated and voted upon by teens - with a little librarian help to make the list manageable!
The 2023 Flume Award winner was These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong.
The 2022 Flume Award winner was A Good GIrl's Guide To Murder by Holly Jackson.
Flume Nominations for 2024:
Ain’t Burned All The Bright by Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
All Of Us Villains by Amanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman
Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz
Daughters of A Dead Empire by Carolyn Tara O’Neil
Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed
I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston
I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
The One True Me And You by Remi England
The Rumor Game by Dhonielle Clayton
You Truly Assumed by Laila Sabreem
Th
e Newbery Medal Award honors the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
2023 Medal Winner: Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson (JIMMY Patterson/Little, Br
own Books for Young Readers)
The 2022 Newbery Medal went to Donna Barba Higuera for The Last Cuentista, published by Levine Querido
For more information about The Newbery Medal Award, The Newbery Honor Award, and former winners, visit:
http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberymedal
The Newbery Medal Award turns 100 this year- happy birthday!
The Caldecott Medal Award is given to the illustrator of that year's "most distinguished American picturebook for children".
The 2023 Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished picture book is awarded to Hot Dog by Doug Salati published by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House.
Last year, The 2022 Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished picture book was awarded to Jason Chin for Watercress, written by Andrea Wang and published by Neal Porter Books, Holiday House.
Click here for more information about the Caldecott Medal Award.
For a comprehensive list of all national book awards, go to:
http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia