Beehive Book Award Historical Information
2026
Winners
2026 Winners Beehive Book Award
Beehive Book Award Winners 2026
Children’s Fiction
Faker by Gordon Korman
Runner Up: Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell & Ashley Mackenzie
Nonfiction
One Day This Tree Will Fall by Leslie Barnard Booth & Stephanie Fizer Coleman
Runner Up: Great Carrier Reef by Jessica Stremer
Kids Graphic Novel
Duck and Moose: Duck Moves In by Kirk Redstrom
Runner Up: Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol
Picture Book
The Quacken by Justin Colon & Pablo Pino
Runner Up: Dog vs. Strawberry by Nelly Buchet & Andrea Zuill
Poetry
Mysterious Marvelous Octopus by Paige Towler
Runner Up: Skating Wild on an Inland Sea by Jean Pendziwol & Todd Stewart
Young Adult
Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce
Runner Up: Thieves Gambit by Kayvion Lewis
Young Adult Graphic Novel
The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival by Estelle Nadel, Sammy & Bethany Savos
Runner Up: Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang & Leuyen Pham
Nominees
2025
Winners
| The Superteacher Project by Gordon Korman | Children’s Fiction | 2025 |
| Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega | Children’s Graphic Novel | 2025 |
| One Chicken Nugget by Tadgh Bentley | Picture Book | 2025 |
| Meet the Bears: Adventure Around the World and Meet Eight Bears by Kate Peridot | Informational Books | 2025 |
| Good Different by Meg Eden Kuyatt | Poetry | 2025 |
| The Isles of the Gods by Amie Kaufman | Young Adult Fiction | 2025 |
Nominees
2025 Beehive Award Nominees Images PDF
| The Superteacher Project by Gordon Korman | Children’s Fiction | 2025 |
| Bea and the New Deal Horse by L. M. Elliott | Children’s Fiction | 2025 |
| Just Gus | by McCall Hoyle – Author of Stella – A boy and his dog’s adventure. (Best Friends Dog Tales) by McCall Hoyle | Children’s Fiction | 2025 |
| Iceberg by Jennifer A. Nielsen | Children’s Fiction | 2025 |
| The Unforgettable Logan Foster by Shawn Peters | Children’s Fiction | 2025 |
| The Story of Gumluck the Wizard: Book One by Adam Rex | Children’s Fiction | 2025 |
| How to Stay Invisible by Maggie C. Rudd | Children’s Fiction | 2025 |
| The Labors of Hercules Beal by Gary D. Schmidt | Children’s Fiction | 2025 |
| The Curious Vanishing of Beatrice Willoughby by G. Z. Schmidt | Children’s Fiction | 2025 |
| Finally Seen by Kelly Yang | Children’s Fiction | 2025 |
| Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega | Children’s Graphic Novel | 2025 |
| Squire & Knight, Vol. 1 by Scott Chantler | Children’s Graphic Novel | 2025 |
| Saving Sunshine by Saadia Faruqi | Children’s Graphic Novel | 2025 |
| Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martin | Children’s Graphic Novel | 2025 |
| Gnome and Rat: (A Graphic Novel) by Lauren Stohler | Children’s Graphic Novel | 2025 |
| One Chicken Nugget by Tadgh Bentley | Picture Book | 2025 |
| Our Pool by Lucy Ruth Cummins | Picture Book | 2025 |
| Rick the Rock of Room 214 by Julie Falatko | Picture Book | 2025 |
| Walter Finds His Voice: The Story of a Shy Crocodile by Ann Kim Ha | Picture Book | 2025 |
| Flat Cat by Tara Lazar | Picture Book | 2025 |
| Frank and Bert by Chris Naylor-Ballesteros | Picture Book | 2025 |
| Very Good Hats by Emma Straub | Picture Book | 2025 |
| That’s My Sweater! by Jessika Von Innerebner | Picture Book | 2025 |
| Yetis Are the Worst! (The Worst! Series) by Alex Willan | Picture Book | 2025 |
| Peng’s Vase: A Chinese Folktale by Angus Yuen-Killick | Picture Book | 2025 |
| Meet the Bears: Adventure Around the World and Meet Eight Bears by Kate Peridot | Informational Books | 2025 |
| The Story of the Saxophone by Lesa Cline-Ransome | Informational Books | 2025 |
| Wombats Are Pretty Weird: A (Not So) Serious Guide by Abi Cushman | Informational Books | 2025 |
| American Murderer: The Parasite that Haunted the South (Medical Fiascoes) by Gail Jarrow | Informational Books | 2025 |
| Jumper: A Day in the Life of a Backyard Jumping Spider by Jessica Lanan | Informational Books | 2025 |
| Sisters in Science: Marie Curie, Bronia Dluska, and the Atomic Power of Sisterhood by Linda Elovitz Marshall | Informational Books | 2025 |
| Darwin’s Super-Pooping Worm Spectacular by Polly Owen | Informational Books | 2025 |
| Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge | Informational Books | 2025 |
| Astonishing and Extinct Professions: 89 Jobs You Will Never Do by Markus Rottmann | Informational Books | 2025 |
| The Witness Trees: Historic Moments and the Trees Who Watched Them Happen by Ryan G. Van Cleave | Informational Books | 2025 |
| Good Different by Meg Eden Kuyatt | Poetry | 2025 |
| Counting in Dog Years and Other Sassy Math Poems by Betsy Franco | Poetry | 2025 |
| Animals in Pants by Suzy Levinson | Poetry | 2025 |
| Zap! Clap! Boom!: The Story of a Thunderstorm by Laura Purdie Salas | Poetry | 2025 |
| We Are Branches by Joyce Sidman | Poetry | 2025 |
| The Isles of the Gods by Amie Kaufman | Young Adult Fiction | 2025 |
| Promise Boys by Nick Brooks | Young Adult Fiction | 2025 |
| Royal Blood by Aimee Carter | Young Adult Fiction | 2025 |
| It Happened on Saturday by Sydney Dunlap | Young Adult Fiction | 2025 |
| Threads That Bind by Kika Hatzopoulou | Young Adult Fiction | 2025 |
| Beneath the Wide Silk Sky by Emily Inouye Huey | Young Adult Fiction | 2025 |
| Attack of the Black Rectangles by A. S. King | Young Adult Fiction | 2025 |
| Stars and Smoke by Marie Lu | Young Adult Fiction | 2025 |
| The 9:09 Project by Mark H. Parsons | Young Adult Fiction | 2025 |
| Stateless by Elizabeth Wein | Young Adult Fiction | 2025 |
| A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat | Young Adult Graphic Novel | 2025 |
| The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich by Deya Muniz | Young Adult Graphic Novel | 2025 |
| Bomb: The Race to Build – and Steal – the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin | Young Adult Graphic Novel | 2025 |
| Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith | Young Adult Graphic Novel | 2025 |
| Hungry Ghost by Victoria Ying | Young Adult Graphic Novel | 2025 |
2024
2024 Winners
| Chez Bob by Bob Shea | Picture Book | 2024 |
| Willodeen by Katherine Applegate | Children’s Fiction | 2024 |
| Garlic and the Vampire by Bree Paulsen | Graphic Novels: Children | 2024 |
| Cougar Crossing: How Hollywood’s Celebrity Cougar Helped Build a Bridge for City Wildlife by Meeg Pincus | Informational Books | 2024 |
| Smitten With Kittens by Florence Minor | Poetry | 2024 |
| The Fort by Gordon Korman | Young Adult | 2024 |
| Ride On by Faith Erin Hicks | Graphic Novels: Young Adult | 2024 |
2024 Nominees
| Willodeen by Katherine Applegate | Children’s Fiction | 2024 |
| A Perfect Mistake by Melanie Conklin | Children’s Fiction | 2024 |
| A Duet for Home by Karina Yan Glaser | Children’s Fiction | 2024 |
| The Bluest Sky by Christina Diaz Gonzalez | Children’s Fiction | 2024 |
| The Mystery of the Taj Mahal Treasure by Raj Haldar | Children’s Fiction | 2024 |
| The Lucky Ones by Linda Williams Jackson | Children’s Fiction | 2024 |
| Omar Rising by Aisha Saeed | Children’s Fiction | 2024 |
| Long Lost by Jacqueline West | Children’s Fiction | 2024 |
| Maizy Chen’s Last Chance by Lisa Yee | Children’s Fiction | 2024 |
| Chez Bob by Bob Shea | Picture Book | 2024 |
| Clovis Keeps His Cool by Katelyn Aronson | Picture Book | 2024 |
| Have You Seen Gordon? by Adam Jay Epstein | Picture Book | 2024 |
| I’m Not Missing by Kashelle Gourley | Picture Book | 2024 |
| Field Trip to Volcano Island by John Hare | Picture Book | 2024 |
| A Spoonful of Frogs by Casey Lyall | Picture Book | 2024 |
| Chester van Chime Who Forgot How to Rhyme by Avery Monsen | Picture Book | 2024 |
| Abdul’s Story by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow | Picture Book | 2024 |
| Counting to Bananas: A Mostly Rhyming Fruit Book by Carrie Tillotson | Picture Book | 2024 |
| Gibberish by Young Vo | Picture Book | 2024 |
| Invisible by Christina Diaz Gonzalez | Graphic Novels: Children | 2024 |
| Lumberjackula by Mat Heagerty | Graphic Novels: Children | 2024 |
| Garlic and the Vampire by Bree Paulsen | Graphic Novels: Children | 2024 |
| The Tryout: A Graphic Novel by Christina Soontornvat | Graphic Novels: Children | 2024 |
| Sir Ladybug (Sir Ladybug, 1) by Corey R. Tabor | Graphic Novels: Children | 2024 |
| Isla to Island by Alexis Castellanos | Graphic Novels: Young Adult | 2024 |
| Huda F Are You? by Huda Fahmy | Graphic Novels: Young Adult | 2024 |
| Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American by Laura Gao | Graphic Novels: Young Adult | 2024 |
| Ride On by Faith Erin Hicks | Graphic Novels: Young Adult | 2024 |
| Squire by Nadia Shammas | Graphic Novels: Young Adult | 2024 |
| Galloping Gertie: The True Story of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse by Amanda Abler | Informational Books | 2024 |
| Headstrong Hallie!: The story of Hallie Morse Daggett, the First Female “Fire Guard” by Aimée Bissonette | Informational Books | 2024 |
| It Takes Guts: How Your Body Turns Food Into Fuel (and Poop) by Jennifer Dr. Gardy | Informational Books | 2024 |
| I Am Smoke by Henry Herz | Informational Books | 2024 |
| Action!: How Movies Began by Meghan McCarthy | Informational Books | 2024 |
| Harriet’s Ruffled Feathers: The Woman Who Saved Millions of Birds by Joy McCullough | Informational Books | 2024 |
| What’s in Your Pocket?: Collecting Nature’s Treasures by Heather L. Montgomery | Informational Books | 2024 |
| The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London’s Poop Pollution Problem by Colleen Paeff | Informational Books | 2024 |
| Cougar Crossing: How Hollywood’s Celebrity Cougar Helped Build a Bridge for City Wildlife by Meeg Pincus | Informational Books | 2024 |
| The Elephants Come Home: A True Story of Seven Elephants, Two People, and One Extraordinary Friendship by Kim Tomsic | Informational Books | 2024 |
| Sakamoto’s Swim Club: How a Teacher Led an Unlikely Team to Victory by Julie Abery | Poetry | 2024 |
| Worst-Case Collin by Rebecca Caprara | Poetry | 2024 |
| Zoobilations!: Animal Poems and Paintings by Douglas Florian | Poetry | 2024 |
| Wait — and See by Helen Frost | Poetry | 2024 |
| Smitten With Kittens by Florence Minor | Poetry | 2024 |
| Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed | Young Adult | 2024 |
| Flirting with Fate by J. C. Cervantes | Young Adult | 2024 |
| Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer | Young Adult | 2024 |
| The Fort by Gordon Korman | Young Adult | 2024 |
| Me (Moth) by Amber McBride | Young Adult | 2024 |
| Mirror Girls by Kelly McWilliams | Young Adult | 2024 |
| Ghostlight by Kenneth Oppel | Young Adult | 2024 |
| Cameron Battle and the Hidden Kingdoms (Cameron Battle, 1) by Jamar J Perry | Young Adult | 2024 |
| I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys | Young Adult | 2024 |
| Love, Decoded by Jennifer Yen | Young Adult | 2024 |
2023
Winners
| Glitch by Laura Martin | Children’s Fiction | 2023 |
| Mel Fell by Corey R. Tabor | Picture Book | 2023 |
| Chunky by Yehudi Mercado | Graphic Novels: Children | 2023 |
| Displacement by Kiku Hughes | Graphic Novels: Young Adult | 2023 |
| The Floating Field: How a Group of Thai Boys Built Their Own Soccer Field by Scott Riley | Informational Books | 2023 |
| Starfish by Lisa Fipps | Poetry | 2023 |
| Ground Zero by Alan Gratz | Young Adult | 2023 |
Nominees
| Glitch by Laura Martin | Children’s Fiction | 2023 |
| Monster and Boy (Monster and Boy, 1) by Hannah Barnaby | Children’s Fiction | 2023 |
| The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo | Children’s Fiction | 2023 |
| A Discovery of Dragons by Lindsay Galvin | Children’s Fiction | 2023 |
| Distress Signal by Mary E. Lambert | Children’s Fiction | 2023 |
| Clues to the Universe by Christina Li | Children’s Fiction | 2023 |
| The Republic of Birds by Jessica Miller | Children’s Fiction | 2023 |
| Hockey Night in Kenya (Orca Echoes) by Danson Mutinda | Children’s Fiction | 2023 |
| Double the Danger and Zero Zucchini by Betsy Uhrig | Children’s Fiction | 2023 |
| Born Behind Bars by Padma Venkatraman | Children’s Fiction | 2023 |
| Mel Fell by Corey R. Tabor | Picture Book | 2023 |
| Don’t Worry, Bee Happy by Ross Burach | Picture Book | 2023 |
| Soaked! by Abi Cushman | Picture Book | 2023 |
| The Yawns Are Coming! by Christopher Eliopoulos | Picture Book | 2023 |
| Something’s Wrong!: A Bear, a Hare, and Some Underwear by Jory John | Picture Book | 2023 |
| See the Cat: Three Stories About a Dog by David LaRochelle | Picture Book | 2023 |
| On Account of the Gum by Adam Rex | Picture Book | 2023 |
| Can We Be Friends?: Unexpected Animal Friendships from around the World by Erica Sirotich | Picture Book | 2023 |
| Wishes by Muon Thi Van | Picture Book | 2023 |
| Someone Builds the Dream by Lisa Wheeler | Picture Book | 2023 |
| Chunky by Yehudi Mercado | Graphic Novels: Children | 2023 |
| Super Detectives! by Cale Atkinson | Graphic Novels: Children | 2023 |
| Rise of the Halfling King (Tales of the Feathered Serpent #1) by David Bowles | Graphic Novels: Children | 2023 |
| A Shot in the Arm!: Big Ideas that Changed the World #3 by Don Brown | Graphic Novels: Children | 2023 |
| Agent 9: Flood-a-Geddon! by James Burks | Graphic Novels: Children | 2023 |
| Displacement by Kiku Hughes | Graphic Novels: Young Adult | 2023 |
| Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder | Graphic Novels: Young Adult | 2023 |
| Nubia: Real One by L. L. McKinney | Graphic Novels: Young Adult | 2023 |
| The Magic Fish: A Graphic Novel by Trung Le Nguyen | Graphic Novels: Young Adult | 2023 |
| Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel by Jason Reynolds | Graphic Novels: Young Adult | 2023 |
| The Floating Field: How a Group of Thai Boys Built Their Own Soccer Field by Scott Riley | Informational Books | 2023 |
| Your Place in the Universe by Jason Chin | Informational Books | 2023 |
| The Boy Whose Head Was Filled with Stars: A Life of Edwin Hubble by Isabelle Marinov | Informational Books | 2023 |
| History Smashers: Pearl Harbor by Kate Messner | Informational Books | 2023 |
| Drop: An Adventure through the Water Cycle by Emily Kate Moon | Informational Books | 2023 |
| The Screaming Hairy Armadillo and 76 Other Animals with Weird, Wild Names by Matthew Murrie | Informational Books | 2023 |
| So You Want to Be an Owl by Jane Porter | Informational Books | 2023 |
| Black Heroes of the Wild West: Featuring Stagecoach Mary, Bass Reeves, and Bob Lemmons: A TOON Graphic by James Otis Smith | Informational Books | 2023 |
| Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued by Peter Sís | Informational Books | 2023 |
| Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford | Informational Books | 2023 |
| Starfish by Lisa Fipps | Poetry | 2023 |
| Delicious!: Poems Celebrating Street Food around the World by Julie Larios | Poetry | 2023 |
| No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History by Lindsay H. Metcalf | Poetry | 2023 |
| Hard-Boiled Bugs for Breakfast: And Other Tasty Poems by Jack Prelutsky | Poetry | 2023 |
| Write! Write! Write! by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater | Poetry | 2023 |
| Ground Zero by Alan Gratz | Young Adult | 2023 |
| Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim | Young Adult | 2023 |
| Curses by Lish McBride | Young Adult | 2023 |
| Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez | Young Adult | 2023 |
| The Cost of Knowing by Brittney Morris | Young Adult | 2023 |
| The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix | Young Adult | 2023 |
| XOXO by Axie Oh | Young Adult | 2023 |
| The Silver Blonde by Elizabeth Ross | Young Adult | 2023 |
| Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon | Young Adult | 2023 |
| In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner | Young Adult | 2023 |
2022
Winners
| The Great Pet Heist by Emily Ecton | Children’s Fiction | 2022 |
| When Pencil Met Eraser by Karen Kilpatrick | Picture Book | 2022 |
| Pea, Bee, & Jay #1: Stuck Together by Brian “Smitty” Smith | Graphic Novels: Children | 2022 |
| They Called Us Enemy by George Takei | Graphic Novels: Young Adult | 2022 |
| Cubs in the Tub: The True Story of the Bronx Zoo’s First Woman Zookeeper by Candace Fleming | Informational Books | 2022 |
| Common Critters: The Wildlife in Your Neighborhood by Pat Brisson | Poetry | 2022 |
| A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson | Young Adult | 2022 |
Nominees
| The Great Pet Heist by Emily Ecton | Children’s Fiction | 2022 |
| The Blackbird Girls by Anne Blankman | Children’s Fiction | 2022 |
| Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley | Children’s Fiction | 2022 |
| My Life as a Potato by Arianne Costner | Children’s Fiction | 2022 |
| How to Make Friends with the Sea by Tanya Guerrero | Children’s Fiction | 2022 |
| Wink by Rob Harrell | Children’s Fiction | 2022 |
| Willa and the Whale by Chad Morris | Children’s Fiction | 2022 |
| Homerooms and Hall Passes by Tom O’Donnell | Children’s Fiction | 2022 |
| The Boy Who Grew Dragons by Andy Shepherd | Children’s Fiction | 2022 |
| Ways to Make Sunshine by Renée Watson | Children’s Fiction | 2022 |
| When Pencil Met Eraser by Karen Kilpatrick | Picture Book | 2022 |
| Rita and Ralph’s Rotten Day by Carmen Agra Deedy | Picture Book | 2022 |
| Swim Swim Sink by Jennifer Harney | Picture Book | 2022 |
| Let’s All Creep Through Crocodile Creek by Jonny Lambert | Picture Book | 2022 |
| Lift by Minh Lê | Picture Book | 2022 |
| In a Jar by Deborah Marcero | Picture Book | 2022 |
| Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o | Picture Book | 2022 |
| The Box Turtle by Vanessa Roeder | Picture Book | 2022 |
| Snail Crossing by Corey R. Tabor | Picture Book | 2022 |
| Naughty Ninja Takes a Bath by Todd Tarpley | Picture Book | 2022 |
| Pea, Bee, & Jay #1: Stuck Together by Brian “Smitty” Smith | Graphic Novels: Children | 2022 |
| Fox & Rabbit by Beth Ferry | Graphic Novels: Children | 2022 |
| Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: Major Impossible by Nathan Hale | Graphic Novels: Children | 2022 |
| When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson | Graphic Novels: Children | 2022 |
| Anti/Hero by Kate Karyus Quinn | Graphic Novels: Children | 2022 |
| They Called Us Enemy by George Takei | Graphic Novels: Young Adult | 2022 |
| Catherine’s War by Julia Billet | Graphic Novels: Young Adult | 2022 |
| Becoming RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Journey to Justice by Debbie Levy | Graphic Novels: Young Adult | 2022 |
| Bloom by Kevin Panetta | Graphic Novels: Young Adult | 2022 |
| Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang | Graphic Novels: Young Adult | 2022 |
| Cubs in the Tub: The True Story of the Bronx Zoo’s First Woman Zookeeper by Candace Fleming | Informational Books | 2022 |
| Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln by Margarita Engle | Informational Books | 2022 |
| Flight for Freedom: The Wetzel Family’s Daring Escape from East Germany by Kristen Fulton | Informational Books | 2022 |
| The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita Lorraine Hubbard | Informational Books | 2022 |
| Reaching for the Moon by Katherine Johnson | Informational Books | 2022 |
| Hey, Water! by Antoinette Portis | Informational Books | 2022 |
| Pluto Gets the Call by Adam Rex | Informational Books | 2022 |
| Facts vs. Opinions vs. Robots by Michael Rex | Informational Books | 2022 |
| Packs: Strength in Numbers by Hannah Salyer | Informational Books | 2022 |
| Soldier for Equality: José de la Luz Sáenz and the Great War by Duncan Tonatiuh | Informational Books | 2022 |
| Common Critters: The Wildlife in Your Neighborhood by Pat Brisson | Poetry | 2022 |
| In the Woods by David Elliott | Poetry | 2022 |
| Dictionary for a Better World: Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes from A to Z by Irene Latham | Poetry | 2022 |
| On the Horizon by Lois Lowry | Poetry | 2022 |
| The Day the Universe Exploded My Head: Poems to Take You into Space and Back Again by Allan Wolf | Poetry | 2022 |
| A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson | Young Adult | 2022 |
| The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes | Young Adult | 2022 |
| Lost and Found by Orson Scott Card | Young Adult | 2022 |
| Verify by Joelle Charbonneau | Young Adult | 2022 |
| Thorn by Intisar Khanani | Young Adult | 2022 |
| I’ll Be the One by Lyla Lee | Young Adult | 2022 |
| When the Ground Is Hard by Malla Nunn | Young Adult | 2022 |
| Bone Crier’s Moon by Kathryn Purdie | Young Adult | 2022 |
| The Paper Girl of Paris by Jordyn Taylor | Young Adult | 2022 |
| Frankly in Love by David Yoon | Young Adult | 2022 |
Previous Winners and Nominees
Beehive Book Award Winners and Nominees 2026-1980