Kirkus Best Books of the Year Winners Picture Books To Inspire Budding Artists

Awards List

2023

How to Write a Poem

How to Write a Poem (*)
Kwame Alexander

Apr-2023
/ General Fiction

Breaking to the Beat!

Breaking to the Beat! (*)
Linda J. Acevedo

Jun-2023
/ General Fiction

Ten-Word Tiny Tales

Ten-Word Tiny Tales (*)
Joseph Coelho

Sep-2023
/ General Fiction

Zora, the Story Keeper

Zora, the Story Keeper (*)
Ebony Joy Wilkins

Oct-2023
/ General Fiction

2022

Drawing Outdoors

Drawing Outdoors (*)
Jairo Buitrago

May-2022
/ General Fiction

Growing an Artist

Growing an Artist (*)
John Parra

May-2022
/ General Fiction

Music Is a Rainbow

Music Is a Rainbow (*)
Bryan Collier

Jun-2022
/ General Fiction

Off the Wall

Off the Wall (*)
Theodore Taylor III

Oct-2022
/ General Fiction

Yellow Dog Blues

Yellow Dog Blues (*)
Alice Faye Duncan

Oct-2022
/ General Fiction

Award Categories

Affirming Picture Books

Beginning Readers

Book Club Fiction

Books for Beginning Readers

Empowering Picture Books

Environmental Fiction

Fiction in Translation

Fictional Families

Fictional Voices

Funniest Picture Books

Historical Fiction

Informational Picture Books

Joyous Picture Books

Middle-Grade About Speaking Up

Middle-Grade Activist

Middle-Grade Adventures

Middle-Grade Family Stories

Middle-Grade Fantasy and SF

Middle-Grade Fiction

Middle-Grade Friendship Stories

Middle-Grade Graphic Fiction

Award Years