E. B. White Read Aloud Award

E. B. White Read Aloud Award
Awarded for	"universal appeal as 'terrific' books to read aloud"
Country	United States
Presented by	ABC Children’s Group division of the American Booksellers Association
First award	2004;21 years ago (2004)
Final award	2019;6 years ago (2019)
Website	www.bookweb.org/membership/ABC/EBWhitewinners

The E. B. White Read Aloud Award was established in 2004 by The Association of Booksellers for Children (ABC) to honor books that its membership felt embodied the universal read aloud standards that were created by the work of the author E. B. White.

In 2006 the award was expanded into two categories:

• the E. B. White Read Aloud Award for Picture Books
• the E. B. White Read Aloud Award for Older Readers.

Titles are nominated for the award by ABC booksellers, and then the final decision is made by a committee of booksellers that meets annually in February. The awards are publicly announced, and the official presentation takes place, during a children's dinner at BookExpo America. They are announced in conjunction with Indies Choice Book Awards. The award was last given in 2019, the final year that BookExpo was held. ^[1]

Because the award nominees are generated by independent booksellers based on books they have loved in their own stores, there is no formal outside submission process.

Recipients

E.B. White Read Aloud Award winners and honor books

Year	Category	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2004	N/A	Judy Schachner	Skippyjon Jones	Penguin Putnam	Winner
2005	N/A	Judy Sierra , illus. by Marc Brown	Wild About Books	Random House Books for Young Readers	Winner
2006	Older Reader	Debra Wiles	Each Little Bird That Sings	Harcourt	Winner	[2]
	Picture Book	Chris Van Dusen	If I Built a Car	Penguin Putnam	Winner	[2]
2007	Older Reader	Watt Key	Alabama Moon	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Winner	[3]
	Picture Book	James Howe , illus. by Marie-Louise Gay	Houndsley and Catina	Candlewick Press	Winner	[3]
2008	Older Reader	Trenton Lee Stewart	The Mysterious Benedict Society	Little, Brown & Co.	Winner	[4]
	Picture Book	Elise Broach	When Dinosaurs Came With Everything	Atheneum Books	Winner	[4]
2009	Older Readers	Elise Broach , illus. by Kelly Murphy	Masterpiece	Henry Holt and Company	Winner	[5]
		Sarah Prineas	The Magic Thief	HarperCollins	Honor	[6]
		Lois Lowry	The Willoughbys	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	Honor	[6]
		Robert Paul Weston , illus. by Victor Rivas	Zorgamazoo	Penguin Books	Honor	[6]
	Picture Book	Bonnie Becker , illus. by Kady MacDonald Denton	A Visitor for Bear	Candlewick Press	Winner	[5] [7]
		Kate DiCamillo , illus. by Harry Bliss	Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken	HarperCollins	Honor	[6] [8]
		Kathryn Otoshi	One	KO Kids Books	Honor	[6]
		David Shannon	Too Many Toys	Scholastic	Honor	[6]
2010	Older Readers	Kate Messner	The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z.	Walker Books for Young Readers	Winner
		Kristin Clark Venuti	Leaving the Bellweathers	Egmont USA	Honor	[9]
		Emily Bearn , illus. by Nick Price	Tumtum and Nutmeg: Adventures Beyond Nutmouse Hall	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers	Honor	[9]
		Grace Lin	Where the Mountain Meets the Moon	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers	Honor	[9]
	Picture Book	Peter Brown	The Curious Garden	Little, Brown & Co.	Winner
		Carmen Agra Deedy , illus. by Thomas Gonzalez	14 Cows for America	Peachtree	Honor	[9]
		Denise Doyen , illus. by Barry Moser	Once Upon a Twice	Random House	Honor	[9]
		Florence Heide Parry , illus. by Lane Smith	Princess Hyacinth (The Surprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated)	Random House	Honor	[9]
2011	Middle Reader	Tom Angleberger	The Strange Case of Origami Yoda	Amulet Books	Winner	[10] [11]
		Rob Buyea	Because of Mr. Terupt	Delacorte Books	Honor	[10]
		Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson	The Familiars	HarperCollins	Honor	[10]
		Laurel Snyder , illus. by Abigail Halpin	Penny Dreadful	Random House	Honor	[10]
		Marianne Malone , illus. by Greg Call	The Sixty-Eight Rooms	Random House	Honor	[10]
		Adam Gidwitz	A Tale Dark and Grimm	Dutton Books	Honor	[10]
	Picture Book	Peter Brown	Children Make Terrible Pets	Little, Brown & Co.	Winner	[10] [11]
		Brett Helquist	Bedtime for Bear	HarperCollins	Honor	[10]
		Keith Graves	Chicken Big	Chronicle Books	Honor	[10]
		Eric Litwin , illus. by James Dean	Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes	HarperCollins	Honor	[10]
		Michael Ian Black , illus. by Kevin Hawkes	A Pig Parade Is a Terrible Idea	Simon & Schuster	Honor	[10]
		Deborah Underwood , illus. by Renata Liwska	The Quiet Book	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	Honor	[10]
2012	Middle Reader	Colin Meloy, illus. by Carson Ellis	Wildwood	Balzer + Bray	Winner	[12]
		Maile Meloy , illus. by Ian Schoenherr	The Apothecary	Putnam Juvenile	Winner	[12]
		Carmen Agra Deedy and Randall Wright, illus. by Barry Moser	The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale	Peachtree	Honor
		Lauren Oliver , illus. by Kei Acedera	Liesl & Po	HarperCollins	Honor
		Katherine Paterson and John Paterson, illus. by John Rocco	The Flint Heart	Candlewick Press	Honor
		Pat Schmatz	Bluefish	Candlewick Press	Honor
	Picture Books	Jon Klassen	I Want My Hat Back	Candlewick Press	Winner	[12]
		Kate Messner , illus. by Christopher Silas Neal	Over and Under the Snow	Chronicle Books	Honor
		Mary Lyn Ray , illus. by Marla Frazee	Stars	Beach Lane Books	Honor
		Sherri Duskey Rinker , illus. by Tom Lichtenheld	Goodnight	Chronicle Books	Honor
		Hervé Tullet	Press Here	Chronicle Books	Honor
		Chris Van Dusen	King Hugo's Huge Ego	Candlewick Press	Honor
2013	Middle Reader	R. J. Palacio	Wonder	Knopf Books for Young Readers	Winner	[13] [14]
		Katherine Applegate , illus. by Patricia Castelao	The One and Only Ivan	HarperCollins	Honor
		Jasper Fforde	The Last Dragonslayer	Harcourt Children's Books	Honor
		Silas House and Neela Vaswani	Same Sun Here	Candlewick Press	Honor
		Jennifer A. Nielsen	The False Prince	Scholastic Press	Honor
		Sheila Turnage	Three Times Lucky	Dial Press for Young Readers	Honor
	Picture Books	Mac Barnett , illus. by Jon Klassen	Extra Yarn	Balzer + Bray	Winner	[13] [14]
		Kelly Bingham , illus. by Paul O. Zelinsky	Z is for Moose	Greenwillow Books	Honor
		Candace Fleming , illus. by Eric Rohmann	Oh, No!	Schwartz & Wade	Honor
		Gianna Marino	Too Tall Houses	Viking Juvenile	Honor
		Aaron Reynolds and Peter Brown	Creepy Carrots!	Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers	Honor
		Philip C. Stead , illus. by Erin Stead	Bear Has a Story to Tell	Roaring Brook Press	Honor
2014	Middle Reader	Kate DiCamillo , illus. by K.G. Campbell	Flora & Ulysses	Candlewick Press	Winner	[15]
		Karen Foxlee	Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy	Knopf Books for Young Readers	Honor
		Holly Goldberg Sloan	Counting By 7s	Dial Press for Young Readers	Honor
		Kevin Henkes	The Year of Billy Miller	Greenwillow Books	Honor
		Richard Peck , illus. by Kelly Murphy	The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail	Dial Press for Young Readers	Honor
		Katherine Rundell , illus. by Terry Fan	Rooftoppers	Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers	Honor
	Picture Book	Drew Daywalt , illus. by Oliver Jeffers	The Day the Crayons Quit	Philomel Books	Winner	[15]
		Samantha Berger , illus. by Dan Santat	Crankenstein	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers	Honor
		Peter Brown	Mr. Tiger Goes Wild	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers	Honor
		Adam Lehrhaupt	Warning: Do Not Open This Book!	Paula Wiseman Books	Honor
		Emily Winfield Martin	Dream Animals: A Bedtime Journey	Random House Books for Young Readers	Honor
		Bob Shea	Unicorn Thinks He's Pretty Great	Disney-Hyperion	Honor
2015	Middle Reader	Jacqueline Woodson	Brown Girl Dreaming	Nancy Paulsen Books	Winner	[16] [17]
		Mac Barnett and Jory John, illus. by Kevin Cornell	The Terrible Two	Amulet Books	Honor
		Kimberly Brubaker Bradley	The War That Saved My Life	Dial Press for Young Readers	Honor
		Jennifer L. Holm	The Fourteenth Goldfish	Random House Books for Young Readers	Honor
		Natalie Lloyd	A Snicker of Magic	Scholastic Press	Honor
		Kenneth Oppel , illus. by Jim Tierney	The Boundless	Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers	Honor
	Picture Books	Mac Barnett , illus. by Jon Klassen	Sam and Dave Dig a Hole	Candlewick Press	Winner	[16] [17]
		Matt de la Peña , illus. by Christian Robinson	Last Stop on Market Street	Putnam Young Readers	Honor
		Jory John , illus. by Benji Davies	Goodnight Already!	HarperCollins	Honor
		Richard T. Morris	This Is a Moose	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers	Honor
		Justin Roberts, illus. by Christian Robinson	The Smallest Girl in the Smallest Grade	Putnam Young Readers	Honor
		Bob Shea, illus. by Lane Smith	Kid Sheriff and the Terrible Toads	Roaring Brook Press	Honor
2016	Middle Reader	Ali Benjamin	The Thing About Jellyfish	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers	Winner	[18] [19]
		Katherine Applegate	Crenshaw	Feiwel & Friends	Honor	[20]
		Alex Gino	Melissa	Scholastic Press	Honor	[20]
		Victoria Jamieson	Roller Girl	Dial Press for Young Readers	Honor	[20]
		Kelly Jones	Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer	Knopf Books for Young Readers	Honor	[20]
		Kevin Sands	The Blackthorn Key	Aladdin	Honor	[20]
	Picture Books	Ryan T. Higgins	Mother Bruce	Disney-Hyperion	Winner	[18] [19]
		Kate Beaton	The Princess and the Pony	Arthur A. Levine Books	Honor	[20]
		Michael Hall	Red: A Crayon's Story	Greenwillow	Honor	[20]
		Kevin Henkes	Waiting	Greenwillow Books	Honor	[20]
		Emily Jenkins , illus. by Paul O. Zelinsky	Toys Meet Snow: Being the Wintertime Adventures of a Curious Stuffed Buffalo, a Sensitive Plush Stingray, and a Book-Loving Rubber Ball	Schwartz & Wade	Honor	[20]
		Mac Barnett , illus. by Christian Robinson	Leo: A Ghost Story	Chronicle Books	Honor	[20]
2017	Middle Reader	Kelly Barnhill	The Girl Who Drank the Moon	Algonquin Young Readers	Winner	[21] [22]
		Leslie Connor	All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook	Katherine Tegen Books	Honor	[23]
		Adam Gidwitz , illus. by Hatem Ali	The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog	Dutton Books for Young Readers	Honor	[23]
		Grace Lin	When the Sea Turned to Silver	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers	Honor	[23]
		Richard Peck	The Best Man	Dial Press	Honor	[23]
		Jason Reynolds	As Brave As You	Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books	Honor	[23]
	Picture Books	Carson Ellis	Du Iz Tak?	Candlewick Press	Winner	[21] [22]
		Jabari Asim , illus. by E. B. Lewis	Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis	Nancy Paulsen Books	Honor	[23]
		Ross Collins	There's a Bear on My Chair	Nosy Crow	Honor	[23]
		Julie Fogliano , illus. by Julie Morstad	When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons	Roaring Brook Press	Honor	[23]
		Susan Hood , illus. by Sally Wern Comport	Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay	Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers	Honor	[23]
		Adam Rex , illus. by Christian Robinson	School's First Day of School	Roaring Brook Press	Honor	[23]
2018	Middle Reader	Katherine Applegate	Wishtree	Feiwel & Friends	Winner	[24] [25]
		Pablo Cartaya	The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora	Viking Books for Young Readers	Honor	[26]
		Alan Gratz	Refugee	Scholastic Press	Honor	[26]
		Nikki Grimes	One Last Word	Bloomsbury USA Children's Books	Honor	[26]
		David Barclay Moore	The Stars Beneath Our Feet	Knopf Books for Young Readers	Honor	[26]
		Celia C. Pérez	The First Rule of Punk	Viking Books for Young Readers	Honor	[26]
	Picture Books	Mac Barnett , illus. by Jon Klassen	The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse	Candlewick Press	Winner	[24] [25]
		Thyra Heder	Alfie (The Turtle That Disappeared)	Harry N. Abrams	Honor	[26]
		Holly M. McGhee	Come With Me	G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers	Honor	[26]
		Adam Rubin , illus. by Daniel Salmieri	Dragons Love Tacos 2: The Sequel	Dial Press	Honor	[26]
		Dan Santat	After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again)	Roaring Brook Press	Honor	[26]
		Dashka Slater , illus. by Sydney Hanson	Escargot	Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers	Honor	[26]
2019	Middle Reader	Jewell Parker Rhodes	Ghost Boys	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers	Winner	[27] [28]
		Jonathan Auxier	Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster	Amulet Books	Honor	[29]
		Sayantani DasGupta	The Serpent’s Secret	Scholastic Press	Honor	[29]
		Adam Gidwitz , illus. by Hatem Aly	The Creature of the Pines	Dutton Books for Young Readers	Honor	[29]
		Anna Meriano	Love Sugar Magic: A Dash of Trouble	Walden Pond Press	Honor	[29]
		Kelly Yang	Front Desk	Arthur A. Levine Books	Honor	[29]
	Picture Book	Ryan T. Higgins	We Don’t Eat Our Classmates	Disney-Hyperion	Winner	[27] [28]
		Cori Doerrfeld	The Rabbit Listened	Dial Press	Honor	[29]
		Oge Mora	Thank You, Omu!	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers	Honor	[29]
		Jessie Sima	Harriet Gets Carried Away	Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers	Honor	[29]
		Ed Vere	How to Be a Lion	Doubleday Books for Young Readers	Honor	[29]
		Jacqueline Woodson	The Day You Begin	Nancy Paulsen Books	Honor	[29]

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