Audie Award for Young Listeners' Title

The Audie Award for Young Listeners' Title is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in narration, production, and content for a children's audiobook intended for children up to the age of 8 released in a given year. From 2004 to 2015 it was given as the Audie Award for Children's Title for Ages Up to Eight. Before 2004 it was given as the Audie Award for Children's Title for Ages Zero to Seven. It has been awarded since 2001, when it was separated from the more expansive Audie Award for Children's Title.

Winners and finalists

Winners are listed first each year and highlighted in light green.

2000s

Year	Audiobook	Author(s)	Narrator(s)	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2001 6th	Ouch! (1998)	Natalie Babbitt	Martin Jarvis	Live Oak Media	Winner	[1] [2]
	Charlie Parker Played Be Bop (1997)	Chris Raschka	Richard Allen	Live Oak Media	Finalist	[1]
	The Polar Express (1985)	Chris Van Allsburg	Liam Neeson	Houghton Mifflin	Finalist	[1]
2002 7th	Ballet Stories (2001)	David Angus	Jenny Agutter	Naxos Audiobooks	Winner	[2] [3]
	The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses (1978)	Paul Goble	Lance White Magpie	Live Oak Media	Finalist	[3]
	Joseph Had a Little Overcoat (2000)	Simms Taback	Simms Taback	Live Oak Media	Finalist	[3]
2003 8th	The Blues of Flats Brown (2000)	Walter Dean Myers	Charles Turner	Live Oak Media	Winner	[2] [4]
	In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall (2004)	Folami Abiade and Dinah Johnson	Javaka Steptoe , Robin Miles, Charles Turner, and Lizan Mitchell	Live Oak Media	Finalist	[4]
	John Coltrane's Giant Steps (1960)	Chris Raschka	Richard Allen	Live Oak Media	Finalist	[4]
	Saving Sweetness (1996)	Diane Stanley	Tom Bodett	Live Oak Media	Finalist	[4]
	Sheila Rae, the Brave (1987)	Kevin Henkes	Laura Hamilton	Live Oak Media	Finalist	[4]
2004 9th	Chato and the Party Animals (2000)	Gary Soto	Luis Guzmán	Weston Woods	Winner	[2] [5]
	Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa (2002)	Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney	Billy Dee Williams	Weston Woods	Finalist	[5]
	Green Eggs and Ham (1960)	Dr. Seuss	Jason Alexander , David Hyde Pierce, and Michael McKean	Random House Audio	Finalist	[5]
	Raising Sweetness (1999)	Diane Stanley	Tom Bodett	Live Oak Media	Finalist	[5]
	The Tale of Despereaux (2003)	Kate DiCamillo	Graeme Malcolm	Random House Audio	Finalist	[5]
2005 10th	What Charlie Heard (2002)	Mordicai Gerstein	Mordicai Gerstein	Live Oak Media	Winner	[2] [6]
	Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye , The Curse of the Cheese Pyramid , (2004)	Geronimo Stilton	Edward Herrmann	Listening Library	Finalist	[6]
	Cat and Mouse in a Haunted House (2004)	Geronimo Stilton	Edward Herrmann	Listening Library	Finalist	[6]
	I Stink! (2002)	Kate and Jim McMullan	Andy Richter	Weston Woods	Finalist	[6]
	The Neil Gaiman Audio Collection (2004)	Neil Gaiman	Neil Gaiman	HarperAudio	Finalist	[6]
	When Marian Sang (2002)	Pam Muñoz Ryan	Gail Nelson	Live Oak Media	Finalist	[6]
2006 11th	Arnie the Doughnut (2003)	Laurie Keller	Michael McKean , Diana Canova, David de Vries, et al.	Weston Woods	Winner	[2]
	A Bear Called Paddington (1958)	Michael Bond	Stephen Fry	HarperAudio	Finalist
	The Big Blueberry Barf-Off! (2005)	R. L. Stine	Michael McKean	HarperAudio	Finalist
	Blues Journey (2003)	Walter Dean Myers	Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers	Live Oak Media	Finalist
	Ellen Tebbits (1951)	Beverly Cleary	Amanda Martin	HarperAudio	Finalist
	The Great Smelling Bee (2005)	R. L. Stine	Michael McKean	HarperAudio	Finalist
2007 12th	Knuffle Bunny (2005)	Mo Willems	Mo Willems , Cher, and Trixie Willems	Weston Woods	Winner	[2] [7]
	Dog Den Mystery (2005)	Darrel and Sally Odgers	Alan King	Bolinda Audio	Finalist
	Murmel Murmel Munsch! (1982)	Robert Munsch	Robert Munsch	The Children's Group	Finalist
	Piccolo and Annabelle: Very Messy Inspection (2004)	Stephen Axelson	Stanley McGeagh	Bolinda Audio	Finalist
	Poetry Speaks to Children (2005)	Elise Paschen	Rita Dove , Ogden Nash, et al.	Sourcebooks	Finalist
2008 13th	More About Paddington (1959)	Michael Bond	Stephen Fry	Harper Children's Audio	Winner	[2]
	In Aunt Giraffe's Green Garden (2007)	Jack Prelutsky	Jack Prelutsky	HarperAudio	Finalist
	Goodnight Hawaiian Moon (2006)	Terry Carolan	Amy Hānaialiʻi Gilliom	Banana Patch	Finalist
	Ogre in a Toga (2008)	Geoffrey McSkimming	Geoffrey McSkimming	Bolinda Audio	Finalist
	The One and Only Shrek! (1990)	William Steig	Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci	Macmillan Audio	Finalist
2009 14th	James Herriot's Treasury for Children (1992)	James Herriot	Jim Dale	Macmillan Audio	Winner	[2] [8]
	Do Unto Otters (2007)	Laurie Keller	Jack Sundrud , Galen Fott, Rusty Young, David de Vries, Diana Canova, et al.	Weston Woods	Finalist
	Hip Hop Speaks to Children (2009)	Nikki Giovanni	Nikki Giovanni	Scourcebooks Jabberwocky	Finalist
	The Shoe Bird (2008)	Samuel Jones	Jim Dale	Brilliance Audio	Finalist
	What Do You Do with a Kangaroo? (1973)	Mercer Mayer	Jane Casserly	Scholastic Audio	Finalist

2010s

Year	Audiobook	Author(s)	Narrator(s)	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2010 15th	Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken (2008)	Kate DiCamillo	Barbara Rosenblat	Live Oak Media	Winner	[2] [9]
	A Dog on His Own (2008)	Mary Jane Auch	William Dufris	Full Cast Audio	Finalist
	Arabel's Raven (1972)	Joan Aiken	Sneha Mathan	Listen & Live Audio	Finalist
	Friend or Fiend?: With the Pain and the Great One (2008)	Judy Blume	Kathleen McInerney and Judy Blume	Listening Library	Finalist
	Knuffle Bunny Too (2007)	Mo Willems	Mo Willems and Trixie Willems	Weston Woods	Finalist
2011 16th	This Jazz Man (2006)	Karen Ehrhardt	James D-Train Williams	Live Oak Media	Winner	[2] [10]
	One Beastly Beast (2007)	Garth Nix	Stig Wemyss	Bolinda Audio	Finalist
	Judy Moody & Stink: The Holly Joliday (2008)	Megan McDonald	Barbara Rosenblat	Brilliance	Finalist
	Despicable Me (2010)	Annie Auerbach	Tim Curry	Hachette Audio	Finalist
	Epossumondas Plays Possum (2009)	Coleen Salley	Cynthia Darlow	Recorded Books	Finalist
2012 17th	Django, World's Greatest Jazz Guitarist (2009)	Bonnie Christensen	George Guidall	Live Oak Media	Winner	[2] [11] [12]
	Black Jack: The Ballad of Jack Johnson (2010)	Charles R. Smith, Jr.	Dion Graham	Live Oak Media	Finalist
	Looking Like Me (2009)	Walter Dean Myers	Dion Graham and Quincy Tyler Bernstine	Live Oak Media	Finalist
	Stone Soup (2003)	Jon J. Muth	B. D. Wong	Weston Woods	Finalist
	Wolf Pie (2010)	Brenda Seabrooke	Andrew Watts	Recorded Books	Finalist
2013 18th	The Great Cake Mystery (2012)	Alexander McCall Smith	Adjoa Andoh	Listening Library	Winner	[2] [13]
	Knuffle Bunny Free (2010)	Mo Willems	Mo Willems	Weston Woods	Finalist
	A Sick Day for Amos McGee (2010)	Philip C. Stead and Erin Stead	David de Vries	Weston Woods	Finalist
	Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1969)	William Steig	James Earl Jones	Simon & Schuster Audio	Finalist
	We Are America (2011)	Walter Dean Myers	MacLeod Andrews , Olivia Duford, Dion Graham, Lizan Mitchell, Christopher Myers, Walter Dean Myers, Johanna Parker, Adriana Sananes, and Kaipo Schwab	Live Oak Media	Finalist
2014 19th	Hooray for Anna Hibiscus! (2008)	Atinuke	Mutiyat Ade-Salu	Recorded Books	Winner	[2] [14]
	Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake (2011)	Michael B. Kaplan	Katherine Kellgren	Live Oak Media	Finalist	[14]
	Creepy Carrots! (2012)	Aaron Reynolds	James Naughton	Weston Woods	Finalist	[14]
	The Dark (2013)	Lemony Snicket	Neil Gaiman	Hachette Audio	Finalist	[14]
	Nelson Mandela (2013)	Kadir Nelson	Forest Whitaker	Weston Woods	Finalist	[14]
	Stink and the Freaky Frog Freakout (2013)	Megan McDonald	Barbara Rosenblat	Brilliance Audio	Finalist	[14]
2015 20th	H.O.R.S.E.: A Game of Basketball and Imagination (2012)	Christopher Myers	Christopher Myers and Dion Graham	Live Oak Media	Winner	[2] [15]
	Deep in the Swamp (2007)	Donna M. Bateman	Tom Chapin	Live Oak Media	Finalist	[15]
	Follow, Follow: A Book of Reverso Poems (2013)	Marilyn Singer	Marilyn Singer and Joe Morton	Live Oak Media	Finalist	[15]
	Josephine (2013)	Patricia Hruby Powell	Lizan Mitchell	Recorded Books	Finalist	[15]
	This Is Not My Hat (2012)	Jon Klassen	John Keating	Weston Woods	Finalist	[15]
	Timeless Tales of Beatrix Potter (1901–1930)	Beatrix Potter	Katherine Kellgren	Tantor Audio	Finalist	[15]
2016 21st	Little Shop of Monsters (2015)	R. L. Stine and Marc Brown	Jack Black	Hachette Audio	Winner	[2] [16]
	Appleblossom the Possum (2015)	Holly Goldberg Sloan	Dustin Hoffman	Listening Library/Penguin Random House Audio	Finalist	[16]
	Brother Hugo and the Bear (2014)	Katy Beebe and S. D. Schindler	Gildart Jackson	Dreamscape	Finalist	[16]
	Dory Fantasmagory (2014)	Abby Hanlon	Suzy Jackson	Recorded Books	Finalist	[16]
	The Eloise Collection (1955–1959)	Kay Thompson	Bernadette Peters with music by Anthony de Mare	Simon & Schuster Audio	Finalist	[16]
	Niño Wrestles the World (2013)	Yuyi Morales	Adriana Sananes	Dreamscape	Finalist	[16]
2017 22nd	28 Days: Moments in Black History That Changed the World (2015)	Charles R. Smith, Jr.	Dion Graham , William Jackson Harper, Zainab Jah, January LaVoy, Robin Miles, Lizan Mitchell, Jonathan Earl Peck, and Carter Woodson Redwood	Live Oak Media	Winner	[2] [17]
	Island Treasures: Growing Up in Cuba (2015)	Alma Flor Ada	Trini Alvarado	Recorded Books	Finalist	[17]
	The Quentin Blake and John Yeoman Collection (2016)	Quentin Blake and John Yeoman	Stephen Thorne	Bolinda Audio	Finalist	[17]
	The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots (2016; written 1914)	Beatrix Potter	Helen Mirren	Listening Library	Finalist	[17]
	Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer (2015)	Carole Boston Weatherford	Janina Edwards	Dreamscape	Finalist	[17]
	The Wooden Prince (2016)	John Claude Bemis	Ralph Lister	Oasis Audio	Finalist	[17]
2018 23rd	Trombone Shorty (2015)	Troy Andrews	Dion Graham	Live Oak Media	Winner	[2] [18]
	Mother Bruce (2015)	Ryan T. Higgins	Robertson Dean	Weston Woods	Finalist	[18]
	Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day (2016)	Andrea Davis Pinkney	Channie Waites	Recorded Books	Finalist	[18]
	Princess Cora and the Crocodile (2017)	Laura Amy Schlitz	Davina Porter	Recorded Books	Finalist	[18]
	A Sick Day for Amos McGee (2010)	Philip C. Stead	Jim Dale	Macmillan Audio	Finalist	[18]
2019 24th	Before She Was Harriet (2017)	Lesa Cline-Ransome	SiSi Aisha Johnson , January LaVoy, Lisa Renee Pitts, and Bahni Turpin	Live Oak Media	Finalist	[2] [19]
	Dreamers (2018)	Yuyi Morales	Adriana Sananes	Dreamscape	Finalist
	Esquivel!: Space-Age Sound Artist (2016)	Susan Wood	Brian Amador	Live Oak Media	Finalist
	Her Right Foot (2017)	Dave Eggers	Dion Graham	Recorded Books	Finalist
	We Found a Hat (2016)	Jon Klassen	Johnny Heller and Christopher Curry	Weston Woods	Finalist

2020s

Year	Audiobook	Author(s)	Narrator(s)	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2020 25th	The Pigeon HAS to Go to School! (2019)	Mo Willems	Mo Willems	Weston Woods	Winner	[20]
	How to Read a Book (2019)	Kwame Alexander	Kwame Alexander	HarperAudio	Finalist	[20]
	The Lion King (2019)	Elizabeth Rudnick and Disney Press	Janina Edwards	Blackstone Audio	Finalist	[20]
	Rumple Buttercup (2019)	Matthew Gray Gubler	Matthew Gray Gubler	Penguin Random House Audio	Finalist	[20]
	We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga (2018)	Traci Sorell	Lauren Hummingbird , Agalisiga "Choogie" Mackey, Ryan Mackey, Traci Sorell, and Tonia Weavel	Live Oak Media	Finalist	[20]
	The Word Collector (2018)	Peter H. Reynolds	Guy Lockard	Weston Woods	Finalist	[20]
2021 26th	The Overground Railroad	Lesa Cline-Ransome	Shayna Small and Dion Graham	Live Oak Media	Winner	[21]
	Going Down Home with Daddy (2019)	Kelly Starling Lyons	Daxton Edwards	Dreamscape Media LLC	Finalist	[21]
	Rise! From Caged Bird to Poet of the People, Maya Angelou	Bethany Hegedus	Cherise Boothe	Live Oak Media	Finalist	[21]
	Say Something	Peter H. Reynolds	Peter H. Reynolds	Weston Woods Studios	Finalist	[21]
	The Sesame Street Podcast with Foley and Friends	Sesame Workshop	Lindsey Briggs , Tyler Bunch, Ryan Dillon, and a full cast	Audible Studios	Finalist	[21]
	Stuck	Chris Grabenstein	Mark Sanderlin , Elizabeth Hess, Oliver Wyman, Farah Bala, Rita Wolf, Caroline Grogan, Cynthia Darlow, Mateo D'Amato, J.J. Myers, Neil Hellegers, Genesis Oliver, and Chris Grabenstein	Audible Originals	Finalist	[21]
2022 27th	I and I Bob Marley	Tony Medina	Jaime Lincoln Smith and Tony Medina	Live Oak Media	Winner	[22]
	Boogie Boogie, Y'all	C. G. Esperanza	C. G. Esperanza	HarperAudio	Finalist	[22]
	The Couch Potato	Jory John	Kirby Heyborne	HarperAudio	Finalist	[22]
	Jasmine Toguchi, Mochi Queen	Debbi Michiko Florence	Allison Hiroto	OrangeSky Audio	Finalist	[22]
	Remember to Dream, Ebere	Cynthia Erivo	Cynthia Erivo	Hachette Audio	Finalist	[22]
2023 28th	A Door Made for Me	Tyler Merritt	Tyler Merritt	Hachette Audio	Winner	[23]
	Our Table	Peter H. Reynolds	Peter H. Reynolds	Weston Woods Studios	Finalist	[23]
	Patchwork	Matt de la Peña	Philip Hernandez , Catherine Ho, Dion Graham, Finlay Stevenson, Arischa Conner, and Sunil Malhotra	Penguin Random House Audio	Finalist	[23]
	When Grandfather Flew	Patricia MacLachlan	Katie Schorr and George Guidall	Live Oak Media	Finalist	[23]
	Where Snow Angels Go	Maggie O'Farrell	Ruth Negga	Dreamscape Media	Finalist	[23]
2024 29th	The Skull	Jon Klassen	Fairuza Balk and Jon Klassen	Dreamscape Media	Winner	[24]
	Carina Felina	Carmen Agra Deedy	Carmen Agra Deedy	Scholastic Audio	Finalist	[24]
	I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know	Leslie Odom Jr. and Nicolette Robinson	Leslie Odom Jr. and Nicolette Robinson	Macmillan Audio	Finalist	[24]
	Twelve Dinging Doorbells	Tameka Fryer Brown	January LaVoy	Listening Library	Finalist	[24]
	There Was a Party for Langston	Jason Reynolds	Jason Reynolds	Recorded Books	Finalist	[24]

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External links

• Audie Award winners
• Audie Awards official website