Kirkus Best Books of the Year - Picture Books Celebrating Community (Awarded by Kirkus)

Awards List

2024

My Block Looks Like
(*)
Janelle Harper

The House Before Falling into the Sea
(*)
Ann Suk Wang

Marley's Pride
(*)
Joelle Retener

Being Home
(*)
Traci Sorell

Summer Is Here
(*)
Renee Watson

Barrio Rising
(*)
Maria Dolores Aguila

Let's Go
(*)
Julie Flett

2023

Remember
(*)
Joy Harjo

Afterward, Everything was Different
(*)
Jairo Buitrago

Like Lava In My Veins
(*)
Derrick Barnes

The Walk
(*)
Winsome Bingham

Something, Someday
(*)
Amanda Gorman

The Concrete Garden
(*)
Bob Graham

2022

Powwow Day
(*)
Traci Sorell

Big Truck Little Island
(*)
Chris Van Dusen

The World Belonged to Us
(*)
Jacqueline Woodson

Kapaemahu
(*)
Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu

Keepunumuk: Weeachumun's Thanksgiving Story
(*)
Danielle Greendeer

Sal Boat
(*)
Thyra Heder

Standing in the Need of Prayer
(*)
Carole Boston Weatherford

Fire Chief Fran
(*)
Linda Ashman

2021

Most Days
(*)
Michael Leannah

The Lost Package
(*)
Richard Ho

The Smile Shop
(*)
Satoshi Kitamura

I Am the Subway
(*)
Hyo-eun Kim

Little Witch Hazel
(*)
Phoebe Wahl

The New Friend
(*)
Charlotte Zolotow

The Big Bath House
(*)
Kyo Maclear

Dream Street
(*)
Tricia Elam Walker

2019

Birdsong
(*)
Julie Flett

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