2025 Wilde Awards for New and Older Picture Book Readers

This category embraces older children (ages 6-10) from who are beginning to read to those who are sophisticated enough to handle more mature themes in older children’s books.

ORRIS AND TIMBLE: LOST AND FOUND, Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Carmen Mok (Candlewick)
CABIN HEAD AND TREE HEAD, Scott Campbell (Tundra Books)
BRAIDED ROOTS, Pasha Westerbrook, illustrated by Madelyn Goodnight (Orchard Books)
NOT LIKE EVERY DAY, Stephanie Lucianovic, illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard (Random House)
LOVE STAYS STRONG, written by Paula Schneider, illustrated by Nicole Wong (Philomel)
A PLACE FOR US, James Ransome (Nancy Paulsen Books)
THE WORLD ENTIRE, Elizabeth Brown, illustrated by Melissa Castrillon (Chronicle)

The books above are all linked to Bookshop.org