It was announced at this past weekend's SCBWI Winter 2025 In-Person Conference in New York City, and here are the finalists!
Congratulations to everyone whose books made it onto these lists - what a great reading list!
Picture Book Text
The Man Who Didn't Like Animals by Deborah Underwood (Clarion)
The Night Market by Seina Wedlick (Random House Studio)
The One & Only Googoosh by Azadeh Westergaard (Viking)
Emergency Quarters by Carlos Matias (Katherine Teagan Books)
Small Things Mended by Casey W. Robinson (Rocky Pond Books)
Picture Book Illustration
Eloisa's Musical Window illustrated by John Parra, written by Margarita Engle (Atheneum)
Joyful Song: A Naming Story illustrated by Susan Gal, written by Leslea Newman (Levine Querido)
The One and Only Googoosh written and illustrated by Azadeh Westergaard (Viking)
Rumi, Poet of Joy and Love written and illustrated by Rashin Kheiriyeh (NorthSouth Books)
Home in a Lunchbox written and illustrated by Cherry Mo (Penguin Workshop)
Middle Grade
The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin (Viking)
The Deadly Daylight by Ash Harrier (Holiday House)
Finn and Ezra's Bar Mitzvah Time Loop by Joshua S. Levy (Katherine Teagan)
The Other Side of Tomorrow by Tina Cho, art by Deb JJ Lee (HarperAlley)
A Two-Placed Heart by Doan Phuong Nguyen (Lee and Low)
Illustrated Older Reader
Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back by Ruth Chan (Roaring Brook Press)
Fake Chinese Sounds by Jing Jing Tsong (Kokila)
The Monkey King and the World of Myths: The Monster and the Maze by Maple Lam (Penguin)
Rover and Speck by Jonathan Roth (Kids Can Press)
Meet Me On Mercer Street by Booki Vivat (Scholastic)
Wagnificent by Bethanie Murguia (Roaring Brook Press)
Nonfiction Older Reader
Rising From the Ashes by Paula Yoo (Norton)
Spirit Sleuths: How Magicians and Detectives Exposed the Ghost Hoaxes by Gail Jarrow (Calkins Creek)
The Gender Binary is a Big Lie: Infinite Identities Around the World by Lee Wind (Zest Books)
Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back by Ruth Chan (Roaring Brook Press)
Virus Hunters: How Science Protects People When Outbreaks and Pandemics Strike by Amy Cherrix (HarperCollins)
Nonfiction Younger Reader
Comet Chaser by Pamela S. Turner (Chronicle)
Ida B. Wells Marches For The Vote by Dinah Johnson (Christy Ottaviano Books)
One Day This Tree Will Fall by Leslie Barnard Booth (Margaret K. McElderry Books)
The Painter and The President: Gilbert Stuart's Brush with George Washington by Sarah Albee (Calkins Creek)
Fighting with Love: The Legacy of John Lewis by Lesa Cline-Ransome (Paula Wiseman Books)
Young Adult
Sync by Ellen Hopkins (Nancy Paulsen Books)
Girls Like Her by Melanie Sumrow (Balzer + Bray)
Trajectory by Cambria Gordon (Scholastic)
Kill Her Twice by Stacey Lee (Putnam)
The Breakup Lists by Adib Khorram (Dial)
Sid Fleischman Humor Award
On a Wing and a Tear by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Heartdrum)
Harriet Tells the Truth by Elana K. Arnold (Walden Pond Press)
The Truth About Fifth Grade by Kim Tomsic and Mark Parisi (HarperCollins)
The Great Zoodini by PJ Gardner (Balzer + Bray)
And on a personal note, it's thrilling to see my own The Gender Binary Is a Big Lie on the finalist list for Nonfiction Older Reader!
Everyone is welcome to attend the live online awards ceremony, save the date and time: February 21, 2025 at 4pm Pacific/7pm Eastern.
Illustrate, Translate, and Write On,
Lee
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