Ladybug Picture Book Award 2024 Longlist

Since mid-December we have collected potential nominations from NH librarians for the 2024 Ladybug Picture Book Award and are now ready to gather votes from NH's librarians on which of the 51 titles suggested belong on the final list of nominees for this year's award. If you work in a public or school library in NH you are invited to vote on the nominees.

Before you vote you will want to review the long list of suggested titles and decide on your selections. You can vote for up to 5 titles from the long list. There will be a second round of voting when this round closes. The top vote-getters from this survey will be put up to another vote by the NH library community to select the very best choices for our list.

Each morning for the next 12 days we will be posting groups of the long list nominees for your consideration. These are sets of books grouped by theme to help you consider all the books in more manageable batches. The topics are, in many cases, only one aspect of what the book is "about" and many books could have gone into multiple topics, but we wanted to provide "bite-sized pieces" of the rather long long list and these themes let us group the titles so that no post has too many books in it.

PLEASE NOTE that you can only vote once from your device (phone, computer, whatever you use to browse the web) so don't go to the survey to see your choices, do that from the long list, as you will not be able to go back again to vote.

Once you have reviewed the options and made your choices you will cast your vote online. 

You may vote between now and Tuesday, February 27, 2024.

We are planning an online gathering to provide an opportunity for the NH library community to share thoughts on the long list nominees. This will happen before the voting deadline and details will be announced here on the blog shortly. 

We expect to announce the second round of nominee voting here on the blog in early March.