# Audie Award for Young Listeners' Title

The Audie Award for Young Listeners' Title is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in narration, production, and content for a children's audiobook intended for children up to the age of 8 released in a given year. From 2004 to 2015 it was given as the Audie Award for Children's Title for Ages Up to Eight. Before 2004 it was given as the Audie Award for Children's Title for Ages Zero to Seven. It has been awarded since 2001, when it was separated from the more expansive Audie Award for Children's Title.

## Winners and finalists

Winners are listed first each year and highlighted in light green.

### 2000s

| Year | Audiobook | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result |
| 2001 6th | Ouch! (1998) | Natalie Babbitt | Martin Jarvis | Live Oak Media | Winner |
| 2001 6th | Charlie Parker Played Be Bop (1997) | Chris Raschka | Richard Allen | Live Oak Media | Finalist |
| 2001 6th | The Polar Express (1985) | Chris Van Allsburg | Liam Neeson | Houghton Mifflin | Finalist |
| 2002 7th | Ballet Stories (2001) | David Angus | Jenny Agutter | Naxos Audiobooks | Winner |
| 2002 7th | The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses (1978) | Paul Goble | Lance White Magpie | Live Oak Media | Finalist |
| 2002 7th | Joseph Had a Little Overcoat (2000) | Simms Taback | Simms Taback | Live Oak Media | Finalist |
| 2003 8th | The Blues of Flats Brown (2000) | Walter Dean Myers | Charles Turner | Live Oak Media | Winner |
| 2003 8th | In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall (2004) | Folami Abiade and Dinah Johnson | Javaka Steptoe, Robin Miles, Charles Turner, and Lizan Mitchell | Live Oak Media | Finalist |
| 2003 8th | John Coltrane's Giant Steps (1960) | Chris Raschka | Richard Allen | Live Oak Media | Finalist |
| 2003 8th | Saving Sweetness (1996) | Diane Stanley | Tom Bodett | Live Oak Media | Finalist |
| 2003 8th | Sheila Rae, the Brave (1987) | Kevin Henkes | Laura Hamilton | Live Oak Media | Finalist |
| 2004 9th | Chato and the Party Animals (2000) | Gary Soto | Luis Guzmán | Weston Woods | Winner |
| 2004 9th | Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa (2002) | Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney | Billy Dee Williams | Weston Woods | Finalist |
| 2004 9th | Green Eggs and Ham (1960) | Dr. Seuss | Jason Alexander, David Hyde Pierce, and Michael McKean | Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2004 9th | Raising Sweetness (1999) | Diane Stanley | Tom Bodett | Live Oak Media | Finalist |
| 2004 9th | The Tale of Despereaux (2003) | Kate DiCamillo | Graeme Malcolm | Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | What Charlie Heard (2002) | Mordicai Gerstein | Mordicai Gerstein | Live Oak Media | Winner |
| 2005 10th | Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye, The Curse of the Cheese Pyramid, (2004) | Geronimo Stilton | Edward Herrmann | Listening Library | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | Cat and Mouse in a Haunted House (2004) | Geronimo Stilton | Edward Herrmann | Listening Library | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | I Stink! (2002) | Kate and Jim McMullan | Andy Richter | Weston Woods | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | The Neil Gaiman Audio Collection (2004) | Neil Gaiman | Neil Gaiman | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | When Marian Sang (2002) | Pam Muñoz Ryan | Gail Nelson | Live Oak Media | Finalist |
| 2006 11th | Arnie the Doughnut (2003) | Laurie Keller | Michael McKean, Diana Canova, David de Vries, et al. | Weston Woods | Winner |
| 2006 11th | A Bear Called Paddington (1958) | Michael Bond | Stephen Fry | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2006 11th | The Big Blueberry Barf-Off! (2005) | R. L. Stine | Michael McKean | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2006 11th | Blues Journey (2003) | Walter Dean Myers | Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers | Live Oak Media | Finalist |
| 2006 11th | Ellen Tebbits (1951) | Beverly Cleary | Amanda Martin | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2006 11th | The Great Smelling Bee (2005) | R. L. Stine | Michael McKean | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2007 12th | Knuffle Bunny (2005) | Mo Willems | Mo Willems, Cher, and Trixie Willems | Weston Woods | Winner |
| 2007 12th | Dog Den Mystery (2005) | Darrel and Sally Odgers | Alan King | Bolinda Audio | Finalist |
| 2007 12th | Murmel Murmel Munsch! (1982) | Robert Munsch | Robert Munsch | The Children's Group | Finalist |
| 2007 12th | Piccolo and Annabelle: Very Messy Inspection (2004) | Stephen Axelson | Stanley McGeagh | Bolinda Audio | Finalist |
| 2007 12th | Poetry Speaks to Children (2005) | Elise Paschen | Rita Dove, Ogden Nash, et al. | Sourcebooks | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | More About Paddington (1959) | Michael Bond | Stephen Fry | Harper Children's Audio | Winner |
| 2008 13th | In Aunt Giraffe's Green Garden (2007) | Jack Prelutsky | Jack Prelutsky | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | Goodnight Hawaiian Moon (2006) | Terry Carolan | Amy Hānaialiʻi Gilliom | Banana Patch | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | Ogre in a Toga (2008) | Geoffrey McSkimming | Geoffrey McSkimming | Bolinda Audio | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | The One and Only Shrek! (1990) | William Steig | Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | James Herriot's Treasury for Children (1992) | James Herriot | Jim Dale | Macmillan Audio | Winner |
| 2009 14th | Do Unto Otters (2007) | Laurie Keller | Jack Sundrud, Galen Fott, Rusty Young, David de Vries, Diana Canova, et al. | Weston Woods | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | Hip Hop Speaks to Children (2009) | Nikki Giovanni | Nikki Giovanni | Scourcebooks Jabberwocky | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | The Shoe Bird (2008) | Samuel Jones | Jim Dale | Brilliance Audio | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | What Do You Do with a Kangaroo? (1973) | Mercer Mayer | Jane Casserly | Scholastic Audio | Finalist |

### 2010s

| Year | Audiobook | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result |
| 2010 15th | Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken (2008) | Kate DiCamillo | Barbara Rosenblat | Live Oak Media | Winner |
| 2010 15th | A Dog on His Own (2008) | Mary Jane Auch | William Dufris | Full Cast Audio | Finalist |
| 2010 15th | Arabel's Raven (1972) | Joan Aiken | Sneha Mathan | Listen & Live Audio | Finalist |
| 2010 15th | Friend or Fiend?: With the Pain and the Great One (2008) | Judy Blume | Kathleen McInerney and Judy Blume | Listening Library | Finalist |
| 2010 15th | Knuffle Bunny Too (2007) | Mo Willems | Mo Willems and Trixie Willems | Weston Woods | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | This Jazz Man (2006) | Karen Ehrhardt | James D-Train Williams | Live Oak Media | Winner |
| 2011 16th | One Beastly Beast (2007) | Garth Nix | Stig Wemyss | Bolinda Audio | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | Judy Moody & Stink: The Holly Joliday (2008) | Megan McDonald | Barbara Rosenblat | Brilliance | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | Despicable Me (2010) | Annie Auerbach | Tim Curry | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | Epossumondas Plays Possum (2009) | Coleen Salley | Cynthia Darlow | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | Django, World's Greatest Jazz Guitarist (2009) | Bonnie Christensen | George Guidall | Live Oak Media | Winner |
| 2012 17th | Black Jack: The Ballad of Jack Johnson (2010) | Charles R. Smith, Jr. | Dion Graham | Live Oak Media | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | Looking Like Me (2009) | Walter Dean Myers | Dion Graham and Quincy Tyler Bernstine | Live Oak Media | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | Stone Soup (2003) | Jon J. Muth | B. D. Wong | Weston Woods | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | Wolf Pie (2010) | Brenda Seabrooke | Andrew Watts | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | The Great Cake Mystery (2012) | Alexander McCall Smith | Adjoa Andoh | Listening Library | Winner |
| 2013 18th | Knuffle Bunny Free (2010) | Mo Willems | Mo Willems | Weston Woods | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | A Sick Day for Amos McGee (2010) | Philip C. Stead and Erin Stead | David de Vries | Weston Woods | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1969) | William Steig | James Earl Jones | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | We Are America (2011) | Walter Dean Myers | MacLeod Andrews, Olivia Duford, Dion Graham, Lizan Mitchell, Christopher Myers, Walter Dean Myers, Johanna Parker, Adriana Sananes, and Kaipo Schwab | Live Oak Media | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | Hooray for Anna Hibiscus! (2008) | Atinuke | Mutiyat Ade-Salu | Recorded Books | Winner |
| 2014 19th | Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake (2011) | Michael B. Kaplan | Katherine Kellgren | Live Oak Media | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | Creepy Carrots! (2012) | Aaron Reynolds | James Naughton | Weston Woods | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | The Dark (2013) | Lemony Snicket | Neil Gaiman | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | Nelson Mandela (2013) | Kadir Nelson | Forest Whitaker | Weston Woods | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | Stink and the Freaky Frog Freakout (2013) | Megan McDonald | Barbara Rosenblat | Brilliance Audio | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | H.O.R.S.E.: A Game of Basketball and Imagination (2012) | Christopher Myers | Christopher Myers and Dion Graham | Live Oak Media | Winner |
| 2015 20th | Deep in the Swamp (2007) | Donna M. Bateman | Tom Chapin | Live Oak Media | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | Follow, Follow: A Book of Reverso Poems (2013) | Marilyn Singer | Marilyn Singer and Joe Morton | Live Oak Media | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | Josephine (2013) | Patricia Hruby Powell | Lizan Mitchell | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | This Is Not My Hat (2012) | Jon Klassen | John Keating | Weston Woods | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | Timeless Tales of Beatrix Potter (1901–1930) | Beatrix Potter | Katherine Kellgren | Tantor Audio | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | Little Shop of Monsters (2015) | R. L. Stine and Marc Brown | Jack Black | Hachette Audio | Winner |
| 2016 21st | Appleblossom the Possum (2015) | Holly Goldberg Sloan | Dustin Hoffman | Listening Library/Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | Brother Hugo and the Bear (2014) | Katy Beebe and S. D. Schindler | Gildart Jackson | Dreamscape | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | Dory Fantasmagory (2014) | Abby Hanlon | Suzy Jackson | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | The Eloise Collection (1955–1959) | Kay Thompson | Bernadette Peters with music by Anthony de Mare | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | Niño Wrestles the World (2013) | Yuyi Morales | Adriana Sananes | Dreamscape | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | 28 Days: Moments in Black History That Changed the World (2015) | Charles R. Smith, Jr. | Dion Graham, William Jackson Harper, Zainab Jah, January LaVoy, Robin Miles, Lizan Mitchell, Jonathan Earl Peck, and Carter Woodson Redwood | Live Oak Media | Winner |
| 2017 22nd | Island Treasures: Growing Up in Cuba (2015) | Alma Flor Ada | Trini Alvarado | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | The Quentin Blake and John Yeoman Collection (2016) | Quentin Blake and John Yeoman | Stephen Thorne | Bolinda Audio | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots (2016; written 1914) | Beatrix Potter | Helen Mirren | Listening Library | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer (2015) | Carole Boston Weatherford | Janina Edwards | Dreamscape | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | The Wooden Prince (2016) | John Claude Bemis | Ralph Lister | Oasis Audio | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | Trombone Shorty (2015) | Troy Andrews | Dion Graham | Live Oak Media | Winner |
| 2018 23rd | Mother Bruce (2015) | Ryan T. Higgins | Robertson Dean | Weston Woods | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day (2016) | Andrea Davis Pinkney | Channie Waites | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | Princess Cora and the Crocodile (2017) | Laura Amy Schlitz | Davina Porter | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | A Sick Day for Amos McGee (2010) | Philip C. Stead | Jim Dale | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | Before She Was Harriet (2017) | Lesa Cline-Ransome | SiSi Aisha Johnson, January LaVoy, Lisa Renee Pitts, and Bahni Turpin | Live Oak Media | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | Dreamers (2018) | Yuyi Morales | Adriana Sananes | Dreamscape | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | Esquivel!: Space-Age Sound Artist (2016) | Susan Wood | Brian Amador | Live Oak Media | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | Her Right Foot (2017) | Dave Eggers | Dion Graham | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | We Found a Hat (2016) | Jon Klassen | Johnny Heller and Christopher Curry | Weston Woods | Finalist |

### 2020s

| Year | Audiobook | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result |
| 2020 25th | The Pigeon HAS to Go to School! (2019) | Mo Willems | Mo Willems | Weston Woods | Winner |
| 2020 25th | How to Read a Book (2019) | Kwame Alexander | Kwame Alexander | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2020 25th | The Lion King (2019) | Elizabeth Rudnick and Disney Press | Janina Edwards | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2020 25th | Rumple Buttercup (2019) | Matthew Gray Gubler | Matthew Gray Gubler | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2020 25th | We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga (2018) | Traci Sorell | Lauren Hummingbird, Agalisiga "Choogie" Mackey, Ryan Mackey, Traci Sorell, and Tonia Weavel | Live Oak Media | Finalist |
| 2020 25th | The Word Collector (2018) | Peter H. Reynolds | Guy Lockard | Weston Woods | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | The Overground Railroad | Lesa Cline-Ransome | Shayna Small and Dion Graham | Live Oak Media | Winner |
| 2021 26th | Going Down Home with Daddy (2019) | Kelly Starling Lyons | Daxton Edwards | Dreamscape Media LLC | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | Rise! From Caged Bird to Poet of the People, Maya Angelou | Bethany Hegedus | Cherise Boothe | Live Oak Media | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | Say Something | Peter H. Reynolds | Peter H. Reynolds | Weston Woods Studios | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | The Sesame Street Podcast with Foley and Friends | Sesame Workshop | Lindsey Briggs, Tyler Bunch, Ryan Dillon, and a full cast | Audible Studios | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | Stuck | Chris Grabenstein | Mark Sanderlin, Elizabeth Hess, Oliver Wyman, Farah Bala, Rita Wolf, Caroline Grogan, Cynthia Darlow, Mateo D'Amato, J.J. Myers, Neil Hellegers, Genesis Oliver, and Chris Grabenstein | Audible Originals | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | I and I Bob Marley | Tony Medina | Jaime Lincoln Smith and Tony Medina | Live Oak Media | Winner |
| 2022 27th | Boogie Boogie, Y'all | C. G. Esperanza | C. G. Esperanza | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | The Couch Potato | Jory John | Kirby Heyborne | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | Jasmine Toguchi, Mochi Queen | Debbi Michiko Florence | Allison Hiroto | OrangeSky Audio | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | Remember to Dream, Ebere | Cynthia Erivo | Cynthia Erivo | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2023 28th | A Door Made for Me | Tyler Merritt | Tyler Merritt | Hachette Audio | Winner |
| 2023 28th | Our Table | Peter H. Reynolds | Peter H. Reynolds | Weston Woods Studios | Finalist |
| 2023 28th | Patchwork | Matt de la Peña | Philip Hernandez, Catherine Ho, Dion Graham, Finlay Stevenson, Arischa Conner, and Sunil Malhotra | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2023 28th | When Grandfather Flew | Patricia MacLachlan | Katie Schorr and George Guidall | Live Oak Media | Finalist |
| 2023 28th | Where Snow Angels Go | Maggie O'Farrell | Ruth Negga | Dreamscape Media | Finalist |
| 2024 29th | The Skull | Jon Klassen | Fairuza Balk and Jon Klassen | Dreamscape Media | Winner |
| 2024 29th | Carina Felina | Carmen Agra Deedy | Carmen Agra Deedy | Scholastic Audio | Finalist |
| 2024 29th | I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know | Leslie Odom Jr. and Nicolette Robinson | Leslie Odom Jr. and Nicolette Robinson | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2024 29th | Twelve Dinging Doorbells | Tameka Fryer Brown | January LaVoy | Listening Library | Finalist |
| 2024 29th | There Was a Party for Langston | Jason Reynolds | Jason Reynolds | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2025 30th | Nothing: John Cage and 4’33” | Nicholas Day | Fred Berman | Live Oak Media | Winner |
| 2025 30th | Coretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King | Coretta Scott King | January LaVoy | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2025 30th | I Am My Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams | Tanisia Moore | Nile Bullock | Scholastic Audio | Finalist |
| 2025 30th | Millie Fleur's Poison Garden | Christy Mandlin | Elizabeth Knowelden | Scholastic Audio | Finalist |