# Eisner Award for Best Publication for Kids

The Eisner Award for Best Publication for Kids is an award for "creative achievement" in American comic books.

## History and name change

The award was launched in 2008 as Best Publication for Kids. In 2012 the name was changed to Best Publication for Kids (ages 8–12). In 2016 the name was changed to Best Publication for Kids (ages 9–12). In 2020 the name was changed back to Best Publication for Kids.

## Winners and nominees

| Year | Title | Authors |
| 2000s ||||
| 2008 | Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 and Mouse Guard: Winter 1152 (Archaia Entertainment) | David Petersen |
| 2008 | Amelia Rules! and Amelia Rules! Funny Stories (Renaissance Press) | Jimmy Gownley |
| 2008 | Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures (Dark Horse Comics) | edited by Jeremy Barlow |
| 2008 | The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | Peter Sís |
| 2008 | Yotsuba&! (ADV Manga) | Kiyohiko Azuma |
| 2009 | Tiny Titans (DC Comics) | Art Baltazar and Franco Aureliani |
| 2009 | Amulet Book 1: The Stonekeeper (Scholastic Graphix) | Kazu Kibuishi |
| 2009 | Cowa! (Viz Media) | Akira Toriyama |
| 2009 | Princess at Midnight (Image Comics) | Andi Watson |
| 2009 | Stinky (RAW Junior) | Eleanor Davis |
| 2010s ||||
| 2010 | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Marvel Comics) | L. Frank Baum, adapted by Eric Shanower, and Skottie Young |
| 2010 | Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute (Alfred A. Knopf) | Jarrett J. Krosoczka |
| 2010 | The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook (Bloomsbury Publishing) | Eleanor Davis |
| 2010 | Tiny Tyrant, vol. 1: The Ethelbertosaurus (First Second Books) | Lewis Trondheim and Fabrice Parme |
| 2010 | The TOON Treasury of Classic Children’s Comics (Abrams ComicArts/Toon Books) | edited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly |
| 2011 | Tiny Titans (DC Comics) | Art Baltazar and Franco Aureliani |
| 2011 | Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean (Center for Cartoon Studies/Disney Press/Hyperion Books for Children) | Sara Stewart Taylor and Ben Towle |
| 2011 | Amelia Rules!: True Things (Adults Don’t Want Kids to Know) (Atheneum Books/Simon & Schuster) | Jimmy Gownley |
| 2011 | Binky to the Rescue (Kids Can Press) | Ashley Spires |
| 2011 | Scratch9 (Ape Entertainment) | Rob M. Worley and Jason T. Kruse |
| 2011 | The Unsinkable Walker Bean (First Second Books) | Aaron Renier |
| 2012 | Snarked! (KaBOOM!) | Roger Langridge |
| 2012 | The All-New Batman: The Brave and the Bold (DC Comics) | Sholly Fisch, Rick Burchett, and Dan Davis |
| 2012 | Amelia Rules: The Meaning of Life ... And Other Stuff (Atheneum Books) | Jimmy Gownley |
| 2012 | The Ferret's a Foot (Graphic Universe/Lerner Books) | Colleen AF Venable and Stephanie Yue |
| 2012 | Princeless (Action Lab Comics) | Jeremy Whitley and Mia Goodwin |
| 2012 | Zita the Spacegirl (First Second Books) | Ben Hatke |
| 2013 | Adventure Time (KaBOOM!) | Ryan North, Shelli Paroline, and Braden Lamb |
| 2013 | Amulet Book 5: Prince of the Elves (Scholastic Graphix) | Kazu Kibuishi |
| 2013 | Cow Boy: A Boy and His Horse (Archaia Entertainment) | Nate Cosby and Chris Eliopoulos |
| 2013 | Crogan's Loyalty (Oni Press) | Chris Schweizer |
| 2013 | Hilda and the Midnight Giant (Nobrow Press) | Luke Pearson |
| 2013 | The Road to Oz (Marvel Comics) | L. Frank Baum, adapted by Eric Shanower and Skottie Young |
| 2014 | The Adventures of Superhero Girl (Dark Horse Comics) | Faith Erin Hicks |
| 2014 | Hilda and the Bird Parade (Nobrow Press) | Luke Pearson |
| 2014 | Jane, the Fox and Me (Groundwood Books) | Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault, translated by Susan Ouriou and Christelle Morelli |
| 2014 | The Lost Boy (Scholastic Graphix) | Greg Ruth |
| 2014 | Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard vol. 2 edited (Archaia Entertainment/Boom! Studios) | David Petersen, Paul Morrissey, and Rebecca Taylor |
| 2014 | Star Wars: Jedi Academy (Scholastic Kids) | Jeffrey Brown |
| 2015 | El Deafo (Amulet Books/Abrams Books) | Cece Bell |
| 2015 | Batman Li’l Gotham, vol. 2 (DC Comics) | Derek Fridolfs and Dustin Nguyen |
| 2015 | I Was the Cat (Oni Press) | Paul Tobin and Benjamin Dewey |
| 2015 | Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland (IDW Publishing) | Eric Shanower and Gabriel Rodriguez |
| 2015 | Tiny Titans: Return to the Treehouse (DC Comics) | Art Baltazar and Franco Aureliani |
| 2016 | Over the Garden Wall (Boom! Studios/KaBOOM!) | Pat McHale, Amalia Levari, and Jim Campbell |
| 2016 | Baba Yaga’s Assistant (Candlewick Press) | Marika McCoola and Emily Carroll |
| 2016 | Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War (Kids Can Press) | Jessica Dee Humphreys, Michel Chikwanine, and Claudia Dávila |
| 2016 | Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: The Underground Abductor (Abrams Books/Amulet Books) | Nathan Hale |
| 2016 | Roller Girl (Dial Press) | Victoria Jamieson |
| 2016 | Sunny Side Up (Scholastic Graphix) | Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm |
| 2017 | Ghosts (Scholastic Graphix) | Raina Telgemeier |
| 2017 | The Drawing Lesson (Ten Speed Press) | Mark Crilley |
| 2017 | Hilda and the Stone Forest (Flying Eye Books) | Luke Pearson |
| 2017 | Rikki (Karate Petshop) | Rudyard Kipling, adapted by Norm Harper and Matthew Foltz-Gray |
| 2017 | Science Comics: Dinosaurs (First Second Books) | MK Reed and Joe Flood |
| 2018 | The Tea Dragon Society (Oni Press) | Katie O'Neill |
| 2018 | Bolivar (Archaia Entertainment) | Sean Rubin |
| 2018 | Home Time, Book One: Under the River (Top Shelf Productions) | Campbell Whyte |
| 2018 | Nightlights (Nobrow Press) | Lorena Alvarez |
| 2018 | Wallace the Brave (Andrews McMeel Publishing) | Will Henry |
| 2019 | The Nameless City: The Divided Earth (First Second Books) | Faith Erin Hicks |
| 2019 | Aquicorn Cove (Oni Press) | Katie O'Neill |
| 2019 | Be Prepared (First Second Books) | Vera Brosgol |
| 2019 | The Cardboard Kingdom (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House Children’s Books) | Chad Sell |
| 2019 | Crush (JY/Yen Press) | Svetlana Chmakova |
| 2020s ||||
| 2020 | Guts (Scholastic Graphix) | Raina Telgemeier |
| 2020 | Akissi: More Tales of Mischief (Flying Eye Books/Nobrow Press) | Marguerite Abouet and Mathieu Sapin |
| 2020 | Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls (Scholastic Graphix) | Dav Pilkey |
| 2020 | New Kid (Quill Tree Books/HarperCollins) | Jerry Craft |
| 2020 | This Was Our Pact (First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers) | Ryan Andrews |
| 2020 | The Wolf in Underpants (Graphic Universe/Lerner Publishing Group) | Wilfrid Lupano, Mayana Itoïz, and Paul Cauuet |
| 2021 | Superman Smashes the Klan (DC Comics) | Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru |
| 2021 | Doodleville (Knopf Books for Young Readers/Random House Children's Books) | Chad Sell |
| 2021 | Go with the Flow (First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers) | Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann |
| 2021 | Mister Invincible: Local Hero (Magnetic Press) | Pascal Jousselin |
| 2021 | Snapdragon (First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers) | Kat Leyh |
| 2021 | Twins (Scholastic Graphix) | Varian Johnson and Shannon Wright |