Now Accepting 2025 Ladybug Nominations

We will be accepting preliminary nominations from New Hampshire librarians for the 2025 Ladybug Picture Book Award through a nomination form between now and Sunday, January 12, 2025. In addition to bibliographical information about your nominee, we are asking for a sentence or two explaining why you chose to nominate the book.

The nomination form for the 2025 Ladybug Picture Book Award can be found here:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ladybugnominee2025

 Please nominate a picture book that meets the following criteria:

• Be published, in its current edition, within the last three years (2022-2024)
• be currently in print
• possess strong child appeal
• have artistic quality with text that supports the illustrations
•  not be a title previously nominated as a finalist. (See previous nominations here https://tinyurl.com/ladybugNOM)
  

****NEW THIS YEAR: A nominated book will no longer be required to have both the book's author and illustrator reside in the U.S.****

You may nominate as many books as you’d like, but they must follow the above criteria and you will need to complete the nomination survey separately for each nominated book.

The long-list of nominated titles will be announced in late January.