2023 Wilde Award Winners

December 4, 2023 | Igniting Writing |

Award Winners for Babies and Toddlers




A book cover with a dog and a person.

Best Baby Board Book

A book cover with an image of a red monster.

Funniest Board Book

A book cover with a child and some science.

Best Pairing of Babies and Science

A book cover with an image of a cat.

Best Early Interactive Book

Alma and her family y su familia / alma 's words

Best Early Interactive Book


Award Winners for Preschoolers


A kid-peeling book : sometimes i kaploom

Best Big Feelings Book About Bravery

A cartoon of a volcano with smoke coming out.

Best Big Feelings Book About Anger

A book cover with an image of a white duck.

Sneakiest Picture Book Character

A picture of the cover of a book about a cat.

Coolest Character for Young Children

A book cover with an illustration of a lizard.

Biggest Word Lover in Picture Books

A book cover with many dogs and words

Best Child Negotiator

A girl is standing next to an open book.

Best Habitat Guide

A book cover with many different animals and people.

Wackiest Family Ever

A bed of stars by jessica love

Most Creative Parents


Award Winners for Older Picture Books


A book cover with trees and people walking in the background.

Best Book To Talk About Life

A book cover with the word big written in front of a little girl.

Best picture book to fight

anti-fat bias

A picture book cover of a girl with long hair.

Best book on sensitivity

A picture of the cover of cape.

Picture Book That Made Me Cry (More Than Once) 

A book cover with several different people doing yoga.

Most Important Book About PTSD


Award Winners for Nonfiction


A book cover with an animal in the snow.

Best young nonfiction

A book cover with an illustration of germs.

Best voice in nonfiction

A book of turtles by montgomery and matt patterson

Most involving nonfiction

A book cover with two people standing side by side.

Best nonfiction for older readers


Award Winners for Middlegrade Readers


A book cover with a boy holding up a skull.

Early novel to share

A brown bear and a black dog are standing next to each other.

Best New Early Novel Series

A book cover with various greek mythology characters.

Best Classic Made Modern

A painting of the front cover of an american horror house.

Best Middle Grade Family Share

A woman standing in the rain holding onto a purse.

Most Engaging Unreliable Narrator

A brick wall with graffiti on it and the words " remember us ".

Most powerful historical middle grade novel

A woman standing on the street holding a newspaper.

Best Shareable Series Addition


Award Winners for Young Adult & Adult Readers


A woman with long hair and a face paint.

Most Poignant Activism

A book cover with the title of the labors of hercules beal.

Most Consistently Wonderful Author Voice

A white dog standing on top of a leaf covered ground.

Best New YA Voice

A girl is standing in front of a church.

Most Profound Historical Awareness