BEST PICTURE BOOK DREAM TEAM

Andrew Root and Erin Kraan, creators of Nerdycorn (Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)

FAVORITE ILLUSTRATED CHARACTER

Misty from Misty the Cloud: A Very Stormy Day, by Dylan Dreyer; illus. Rosie Butcher (Random House Children’s Books)

KINDERGARTEN TO 2ND GRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR

We All Play: kimêtawânaw, written and illustrated by Julie Flett (Greystone Kids)

FAVORITE WORLD CHANGER

Characters from Black Boy Joy, edited by Kwame Mbalia (Random House Children’s Books)

BEST INFO MEETS GRAPHICS

Big Brain Book: How It Works and All Its Quirks, by Leanne Boucher Gill PhD (Magination Press)

3RD TO 5TH GRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR

Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, by Carole Boston Weatherford; illus. by Floyd Cooper (Lerner Publishing)

FAVORITE BOOK COVER

Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales, by Soman Chainani; cover by Julia Iredale (HarperCollins Children’s Books)

BEST NON-PROSE BOOK

This Book is Feminist, by Jamia Wilson; illus. Aurélia Durand (Quarto Children’s Group USA)

6TH TO 8TH GRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR

Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown, by Steve Sheinkin (Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group)

FAVORITE CHARACTER CRUSH

Charlie Spring from Heartstopper #3, written and illustrated by Alice Oseman (Scholastic)

BEST STELLAR STORYTELLER

Jennifer Lynn Barnes, creator of The Hawthorne Legacy (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

TEEN BOOK OF THE YEAR

Last Night at the Telegraph Club, by Malinda Lo (Penguin Young Readers Group)