In its 72nd year of highlighting children’s books, the New York Times Book Review and the New York Public Library have announced the 10 winners of the Best Illustrated Children’s Books Award. This year’s panel of judges included Caldecott Medalist Doug Salati, Hans Christian Andersen Medalist Jacqueline Woodson, and NYPL children’s librarian Daniella Pagan.
The 2024 Best Illustrated selections are:
Animal Albums from A to Z by Cece Bell (Walker US)
As Edward Imagined: A Story of Edward Gorey in Three Acts by Matthew Burgess, illus. by Marc Majewski (Knopf)
The Cat Way by Sara Lundberg, translated by B.J. Woodstein (Eerdmans)
Here & There by Thea Lu (Eerdmans)
Little Shrew by Akiko Miyakoshi (Kids Can)
The Man Who Didn’t Like Animals by Deborah Underwood, illus. by LeUyen Pham (Clarion)
Planting Hope: A Portrait of Photographer Sebastião Salgado by Philip Hoelzel, illus. by Renato Alarcão (S&S/Atheneum)
There’s a Ghost in the Garden by Kyo Maclear, illus. by Katty Maurey (Enchanted Lion)
Up, Up, Ever Up! Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains by Anita Yasuda, illus. by Yuko Shimizu (Clarion)
Yaya and the Sea by Karen Good Marable, illus. by Tonya Engel (S&S/Millner)
