Ladybug 2025 Shortlist

The first round of Ladybug Picture Book Award voting closed earlier this week and we are ready to move on to round 2.

One hundred and eight people weighed in on the long list of nominees and we have eliminated from consideration any title that did not get at least 10% of the total votes cast. This left us with a shortlist of 16 titles from which NH librarians are invited to vote for the 9 titles that they think should be nominated for the 2025 Ladybug Picture Book Award.
 
The Final Round 2025 Ladybug Nomination Survey is now open and will remain open until Sunday, 3/23/2025.

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

To help make sure as many people as possible in the NH library community have an opportunity to check out these books before voting for the final nominees, we have linked each of the titles below to a video of the book being read. We did not create any of these videos; they are from a variety of sources. Where there was a version available read by the author, we chose that, otherwise we chose the best depiction of the book that we could find.
 
2025 Ladybug Picture Book Award Shortlist 

• Ahoy! by Sophie Blackall
• The Bakery Dragon by Devin Elle Kurtz
• The Book that Almost Rhymed by Omar Abed and Hatem Aly
• Buffalo Fluffalo by Bess Kalb and Erin Kraan
• Dog vs Strawberry by Nelly Buchet and Andrea Zuill
• Flat Cat by Tara Lazar and Pete Oswald
• I am a Dragon! by Sabina Hahn
• I'm Sorry You Got Mad by Kyle Lukoff and Julie Kwon
• Lefty: A Story That Is Not All Right by Mo Willems and Dan Santat
• The Man Who Didn't Like Animals by Deborah Underwood and LeUygen Pham
• Millie Fleur's Poison Garden by Christy Mandin
• Mr. S: A First Day of School Book by Monica Arnaldo
• No Cats in the Library by Lauren Emmons
• The Teeny-weeny Unicorn by Shawn Harris
• We Are Definitely Human by X. Fang
• The Yellow Bus by Loren Long