# E. B. White Read Aloud Award

The E. B. White Read Aloud Award was established in 2004 by The Association of Booksellers for Children (ABC) to honor books that its membership felt embodied the universal read aloud standards that were created by the work of the author E. B. White.
In 2006 the award was expanded into two categories:
* the E. B. White Read Aloud Award for Picture Books
* the E. B. White Read Aloud Award for Older Readers.
Titles are nominated for the award by ABC booksellers, and then the final decision is made by a committee of booksellers that meets annually in February. The awards are publicly announced, and the official presentation takes place, during a children's dinner at BookExpo America. They are announced in conjunction with Indies Choice Book Awards. The award was last given in 2019, the final year that BookExpo was held.
Because the award nominees are generated by independent booksellers based on books they have loved in their own stores, there is no formal outside submission process.

## Recipients

E.B. White Read Aloud Award winners and honor books :
| Year | Category | Author | Title | Publisher | Result |
| 2004 | N/A | Judy Schachner | Skippyjon Jones | Penguin Putnam | Winner |
| 2005 | N/A | Judy Sierra, illus. by Marc Brown | Wild About Books | Random House Books for Young Readers | Winner |
| 2006 | Older Reader | Debra Wiles | Each Little Bird That Sings | Harcourt | Winner |
| 2006 | Picture Book | Chris Van Dusen | If I Built a Car | Penguin Putnam | Winner |
| 2007 | Older Reader | Watt Key | Alabama Moon | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Winner |
| 2007 | Picture Book | James Howe, illus. by Marie-Louise Gay | Houndsley and Catina | Candlewick Press | Winner |
| 2008 | Older Reader | Trenton Lee Stewart | The Mysterious Benedict Society | Little, Brown & Co. | Winner |
| 2008 | Picture Book | Elise Broach | When Dinosaurs Came With Everything | Atheneum Books | Winner |
| 2009 | Older Readers | Elise Broach, illus. by Kelly Murphy | Masterpiece | Henry Holt and Company | Winner |
| 2009 | Older Readers | Sarah Prineas | The Magic Thief | HarperCollins | Honor |
| 2009 | Older Readers | Lois Lowry | The Willoughbys | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Honor |
| 2009 | Older Readers | Robert Paul Weston, illus. by Victor Rivas | Zorgamazoo | Penguin Books | Honor |
| 2009 | Picture Book | Bonnie Becker, illus. by Kady MacDonald Denton | A Visitor for Bear | Candlewick Press | Winner |
| 2009 | Picture Book | Kate DiCamillo, illus. by Harry Bliss | Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken | HarperCollins | Honor |
| 2009 | Picture Book | Kathryn Otoshi | One | KO Kids Books | Honor |
| 2009 | Picture Book | David Shannon | Too Many Toys | Scholastic | Honor |
| 2010 | Older Readers | Kate Messner | The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z. | Walker Books for Young Readers | Winner |
| 2010 | Older Readers | Kristin Clark Venuti | Leaving the Bellweathers | Egmont USA | Honor |
| 2010 | Older Readers | Emily Bearn, illus. by Nick Price | Tumtum and Nutmeg: Adventures Beyond Nutmouse Hall | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2010 | Older Readers | Grace Lin | Where the Mountain Meets the Moon | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2010 | Picture Book | Peter Brown | The Curious Garden | Little, Brown & Co. | Winner |
| 2010 | Picture Book | Carmen Agra Deedy, illus. by Thomas Gonzalez | 14 Cows for America | Peachtree | Honor |
| 2010 | Picture Book | Denise Doyen, illus. by Barry Moser | Once Upon a Twice | Random House | Honor |
| 2010 | Picture Book | Florence Heide Parry, illus. by Lane Smith | Princess Hyacinth (The Surprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated) | Random House | Honor |
| 2011 | Middle Reader | Tom Angleberger | The Strange Case of Origami Yoda | Amulet Books | Winner |
| 2011 | Middle Reader | Rob Buyea | Because of Mr. Terupt | Delacorte Books | Honor |
| 2011 | Middle Reader | Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson | The Familiars | HarperCollins | Honor |
| 2011 | Middle Reader | Laurel Snyder, illus. by Abigail Halpin | Penny Dreadful | Random House | Honor |
| 2011 | Middle Reader | Marianne Malone, illus. by Greg Call | The Sixty-Eight Rooms | Random House | Honor |
| 2011 | Middle Reader | Adam Gidwitz | A Tale Dark and Grimm | Dutton Books | Honor |
| 2011 | Picture Book | Peter Brown | Children Make Terrible Pets | Little, Brown & Co. | Winner |
| 2011 | Picture Book | Brett Helquist | Bedtime for Bear | HarperCollins | Honor |
| 2011 | Picture Book | Keith Graves | Chicken Big | Chronicle Books | Honor |
| 2011 | Picture Book | Eric Litwin, illus. by James Dean | Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes | HarperCollins | Honor |
| 2011 | Picture Book | Michael Ian Black, illus. by Kevin Hawkes | A Pig Parade Is a Terrible Idea | Simon & Schuster | Honor |
| 2011 | Picture Book | Deborah Underwood, illus. by Renata Liwska | The Quiet Book | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Honor |
| 2012 | Middle Reader | Colin Meloy, illus. by Carson Ellis | Wildwood | Balzer + Bray | Winner |
| 2012 | Middle Reader | Maile Meloy, illus. by Ian Schoenherr | The Apothecary | Putnam Juvenile | Winner |
| 2012 | Middle Reader | Carmen Agra Deedy and Randall Wright, illus. by Barry Moser | The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale | Peachtree | Honor |
| 2012 | Middle Reader | Lauren Oliver, illus. by Kei Acedera | Liesl & Po | HarperCollins | Honor |
| 2012 | Middle Reader | Katherine Paterson and John Paterson, illus. by John Rocco | The Flint Heart | Candlewick Press | Honor |
| 2012 | Middle Reader | Pat Schmatz | Bluefish | Candlewick Press | Honor |
| 2012 | Picture Books | Jon Klassen | I Want My Hat Back | Candlewick Press | Winner |
| 2012 | Picture Books | Kate Messner, illus. by Christopher Silas Neal | Over and Under the Snow | Chronicle Books | Honor |
| 2012 | Picture Books | Mary Lyn Ray, illus. by Marla Frazee | Stars | Beach Lane Books | Honor |
| 2012 | Picture Books | Sherri Duskey Rinker, illus. by Tom Lichtenheld | Goodnight | Chronicle Books | Honor |
| 2012 | Picture Books | Hervé Tullet | Press Here | Chronicle Books | Honor |
| 2012 | Picture Books | Chris Van Dusen | King Hugo's Huge Ego | Candlewick Press | Honor |
| 2013 | Middle Reader | R. J. Palacio | Wonder | Knopf Books for Young Readers | Winner |
| 2013 | Middle Reader | Katherine Applegate, illus. by Patricia Castelao | The One and Only Ivan | HarperCollins | Honor |
| 2013 | Middle Reader | Jasper Fforde | The Last Dragonslayer | Harcourt Children's Books | Honor |
| 2013 | Middle Reader | Silas House and Neela Vaswani | Same Sun Here | Candlewick Press | Honor |
| 2013 | Middle Reader | Jennifer A. Nielsen | The False Prince | Scholastic Press | Honor |
| 2013 | Middle Reader | Sheila Turnage | Three Times Lucky | Dial Press for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2013 | Picture Books | Mac Barnett, illus. by Jon Klassen | Extra Yarn | Balzer + Bray | Winner |
| 2013 | Picture Books | Kelly Bingham, illus. by Paul O. Zelinsky | Z is for Moose | Greenwillow Books | Honor |
| 2013 | Picture Books | Candace Fleming, illus. by Eric Rohmann | Oh, No! | Schwartz & Wade | Honor |
| 2013 | Picture Books | Gianna Marino | Too Tall Houses | Viking Juvenile | Honor |
| 2013 | Picture Books | Aaron Reynolds and Peter Brown | Creepy Carrots! | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2013 | Picture Books | Philip C. Stead, illus. by Erin Stead | Bear Has a Story to Tell | Roaring Brook Press | Honor |
| 2014 | Middle Reader | Kate DiCamillo, illus. by K.G. Campbell | Flora & Ulysses | Candlewick Press | Winner |
| 2014 | Middle Reader | Karen Foxlee | Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy | Knopf Books for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2014 | Middle Reader | Holly Goldberg Sloan | Counting By 7s | Dial Press for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2014 | Middle Reader | Kevin Henkes | The Year of Billy Miller | Greenwillow Books | Honor |
| 2014 | Middle Reader | Richard Peck, illus. by Kelly Murphy | The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail | Dial Press for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2014 | Middle Reader | Katherine Rundell, illus. by Terry Fan | Rooftoppers | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2014 | Picture Book | Drew Daywalt, illus. by Oliver Jeffers | The Day the Crayons Quit | Philomel Books | Winner |
| 2014 | Picture Book | Samantha Berger, illus. by Dan Santat | Crankenstein | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2014 | Picture Book | Peter Brown | Mr. Tiger Goes Wild | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2014 | Picture Book | Adam Lehrhaupt | Warning: Do Not Open This Book! | Paula Wiseman Books | Honor |
| 2014 | Picture Book | Emily Winfield Martin | Dream Animals: A Bedtime Journey | Random House Books for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2014 | Picture Book | Bob Shea | Unicorn Thinks He's Pretty Great | Disney-Hyperion | Honor |
| 2015 | Middle Reader | Jacqueline Woodson | Brown Girl Dreaming | Nancy Paulsen Books | Winner |
| 2015 | Middle Reader | Mac Barnett and Jory John, illus. by Kevin Cornell | The Terrible Two | Amulet Books | Honor |
| 2015 | Middle Reader | Kimberly Brubaker Bradley | The War That Saved My Life | Dial Press for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2015 | Middle Reader | Jennifer L. Holm | The Fourteenth Goldfish | Random House Books for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2015 | Middle Reader | Natalie Lloyd | A Snicker of Magic | Scholastic Press | Honor |
| 2015 | Middle Reader | Kenneth Oppel, illus. by Jim Tierney | The Boundless | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2015 | Picture Books | Mac Barnett, illus. by Jon Klassen | Sam and Dave Dig a Hole | Candlewick Press | Winner |
| 2015 | Picture Books | Matt de la Peña, illus. by Christian Robinson | Last Stop on Market Street | Putnam Young Readers | Honor |
| 2015 | Picture Books | Jory John, illus. by Benji Davies | Goodnight Already! | HarperCollins | Honor |
| 2015 | Picture Books | Richard T. Morris | This Is a Moose | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2015 | Picture Books | Justin Roberts, illus. by Christian Robinson | The Smallest Girl in the Smallest Grade | Putnam Young Readers | Honor |
| 2015 | Picture Books | Bob Shea, illus. by Lane Smith | Kid Sheriff and the Terrible Toads | Roaring Brook Press | Honor |
| 2016 | Middle Reader | Ali Benjamin | The Thing About Jellyfish | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | Winner |
| 2016 | Middle Reader | Katherine Applegate | Crenshaw | Feiwel & Friends | Honor |
| 2016 | Middle Reader | Alex Gino | Melissa | Scholastic Press | Honor |
| 2016 | Middle Reader | Victoria Jamieson | Roller Girl | Dial Press for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2016 | Middle Reader | Kelly Jones | Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer | Knopf Books for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2016 | Middle Reader | Kevin Sands | The Blackthorn Key | Aladdin | Honor |
| 2016 | Picture Books | Ryan T. Higgins | Mother Bruce | Disney-Hyperion | Winner |
| 2016 | Picture Books | Kate Beaton | The Princess and the Pony | Arthur A. Levine Books | Honor |
| 2016 | Picture Books | Michael Hall | Red: A Crayon's Story | Greenwillow | Honor |
| 2016 | Picture Books | Kevin Henkes | Waiting | Greenwillow Books | Honor |
| 2016 | Picture Books | Emily Jenkins, illus. by Paul O. Zelinsky | Toys Meet Snow: Being the Wintertime Adventures of a Curious Stuffed Buffalo, a Sensitive Plush Stingray, and a Book-Loving Rubber Ball | Schwartz & Wade | Honor |
| 2016 | Picture Books | Mac Barnett, illus. by Christian Robinson | Leo: A Ghost Story | Chronicle Books | Honor |
| 2017 | Middle Reader | Kelly Barnhill | The Girl Who Drank the Moon | Algonquin Young Readers | Winner |
| 2017 | Middle Reader | Leslie Connor | All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook | Katherine Tegen Books | Honor |
| 2017 | Middle Reader | Adam Gidwitz, illus. by Hatem Ali | The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog | Dutton Books for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2017 | Middle Reader | Grace Lin | When the Sea Turned to Silver | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2017 | Middle Reader | Richard Peck | The Best Man | Dial Press | Honor |
| 2017 | Middle Reader | Jason Reynolds | As Brave As You | Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books | Honor |
| 2017 | Picture Books | Carson Ellis | Du Iz Tak? | Candlewick Press | Winner |
| 2017 | Picture Books | Jabari Asim, illus. by E. B. Lewis | Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis | Nancy Paulsen Books | Honor |
| 2017 | Picture Books | Ross Collins | There's a Bear on My Chair | Nosy Crow | Honor |
| 2017 | Picture Books | Julie Fogliano, illus. by Julie Morstad | When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons | Roaring Brook Press | Honor |
| 2017 | Picture Books | Susan Hood, illus. by Sally Wern Comport | Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2017 | Picture Books | Adam Rex, illus. by Christian Robinson | School's First Day of School | Roaring Brook Press | Honor |
| 2018 | Middle Reader | Katherine Applegate | Wishtree | Feiwel & Friends | Winner |
| 2018 | Middle Reader | Pablo Cartaya | The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora | Viking Books for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2018 | Middle Reader | Alan Gratz | Refugee | Scholastic Press | Honor |
| 2018 | Middle Reader | Nikki Grimes | One Last Word | Bloomsbury USA Children's Books | Honor |
| 2018 | Middle Reader | David Barclay Moore | The Stars Beneath Our Feet | Knopf Books for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2018 | Middle Reader | Celia C. Pérez | The First Rule of Punk | Viking Books for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2018 | Picture Books | Mac Barnett, illus. by Jon Klassen | The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse | Candlewick Press | Winner |
| 2018 | Picture Books | Thyra Heder | Alfie (The Turtle That Disappeared) | Harry N. Abrams | Honor |
| 2018 | Picture Books | Holly M. McGhee | Come With Me | G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2018 | Picture Books | Adam Rubin, illus. by Daniel Salmieri | Dragons Love Tacos 2: The Sequel | Dial Press | Honor |
| 2018 | Picture Books | Dan Santat | After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again) | Roaring Brook Press | Honor |
| 2018 | Picture Books | Dashka Slater, illus. by Sydney Hanson | Escargot | Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2019 | Middle Reader | Jewell Parker Rhodes | Ghost Boys | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | Winner |
| 2019 | Middle Reader | Jonathan Auxier | Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster | Amulet Books | Honor |
| 2019 | Middle Reader | Sayantani DasGupta | The Serpent’s Secret | Scholastic Press | Honor |
| 2019 | Middle Reader | Adam Gidwitz, illus. by Hatem Aly | The Creature of the Pines | Dutton Books for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2019 | Middle Reader | Anna Meriano | Love Sugar Magic: A Dash of Trouble | Walden Pond Press | Honor |
| 2019 | Middle Reader | Kelly Yang | Front Desk | Arthur A. Levine Books | Honor |
| 2019 | Picture Book | Ryan T. Higgins | We Don’t Eat Our Classmates | Disney-Hyperion | Winner |
| 2019 | Picture Book | Cori Doerrfeld | The Rabbit Listened | Dial Press | Honor |
| 2019 | Picture Book | Oge Mora | Thank You, Omu! | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2019 | Picture Book | Jessie Sima | Harriet Gets Carried Away | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2019 | Picture Book | Ed Vere | How to Be a Lion | Doubleday Books for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2019 | Picture Book | Jacqueline Woodson | The Day You Begin | Nancy Paulsen Books | Honor |