Kirkus Best Books of the Year - Picture Books About Nature (Awarded by Kirkus)

Awards List

2024

What's New, Daniel?
(*)
Micha Archer

The Noisy Puddle
(*)
Linda Booth Sweeney

Something About the Sky
(*)
Rachel Carson

The Pelican Can!
(*)
Toni Yuly

Windsongs
(*)
Douglas Florian

Crick, Crack, Crow!
(*)
Janet Lord

Animal Countdown
(*)
Laura Vaccaro Seeger

2023

9 Kilometers
(*)
Claudio Aguilera

Nell Plants a Tree
(*)
Anne Wynter

Little Land
(*)
Diana Sudyka

Desert Jungle
(*)
Jeannie Baker

The World's Best Class Plant
(*)
Audrey Vernick

Stickler Loves the World
(*)
Lane Smith

A Walk in the Woods
(*)
Nikki Grimes

2022

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
(*)
Robert Frost

Snow Angel, Sand Angel
(*)
Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Where Wonder Grows
(*)
Xelena Gonzalez

Apple and Magnolia
(*)
Laura Gehl

Berry Song
(*)
Michaela Goade

Moonlight
(*)
Stephen Savage

Magnolia Flower
(*)
Zora Neale Hurston

Mushroom Lullaby
(*)
Kenneth Kraegel

Still This Love Goes On
(*)
Buffy Sainte-Marie

So Much Snow
(*)
Hyunmin Park

Dark on Light
(*)
Dianne White

Award Categories

Affirming Picture Books

Bedtime Books

Beginning Readers

Board Books

Book Club Fiction

Books for Beginning Readers

Debut Fiction

Empowering Picture Books

Environmental Fiction

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

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019