The New York Times / New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Books Award: 2024
By Walden Pond Books
The New York Times / New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Books Award: 2024
The winners of The New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books Award are chosen each year by a rotating panel of three expert judges. On the 2024 panel were the Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Doug Salati; the Hans Christian Andersen Medal-winning author Jacqueline Woodson; and the children’s librarian Daniella Pagan.
Sorted alphabetically by author, these are the 10 winners of 2024:
As Edward Imagined: A Story of Edward Gorey in Three Acts
Matthew Burgess and Marc Majewski
$19.99
$18.59
Planting Hope: A Portrait of Photographer Sebastião Salgado
Philip Hoelzel and Renato Alarcão
$18.99
$17.66
The announcement and commentary in The New York Times (November 8, 2024)