Eisner Award for Best Publication for Early Readers

Eisner Award for Best Publication for Early Readers
Awarded forBest Publication for Early Readers
CountryUnited States
First awarded2012
Most recent winner (2021)Our Little Kitchen by Jillian Tamaki (2020)
Websitewww.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards-current-info

The Eisner Award for Best Publication for Early Readers is an award for "creative achievement" in American comic books for early readers.

Name change

From 2012 to 2015 the award was appended with "up to age 7" and from 2016 to 2019 it was appended with "up to age 8". For the 2020 awards the age designation was dropped.

Winners and nominees

Year Title Authors Publisher Result Ref.
2012 Dragon Puncher Island James Kochalka Top Shelf Productions Winner [1]
Beauty and the Squat Bears Émile Bravo Yen Press Nominee [2]
Benjamin Bear in Fuzzy Thinking Philippe Coudray Candlewick Press/Toon Books
Nursery Rhyme Comics Chris Duffy (ed) First Second Books
Patrick in a Teddy Bear's Picnic Geoffrey Hayes Candlewick Press/Toon Books
2013 Babymouse for President Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm Random House Winner [1]
Benny and Penny in Lights Out Geoffrey Hayes Candlewick Press/Toon Books Nominee [3]
Kitty & Dino Sara Richard Yen Press/Hachette Book Group
Maya Makes a Mess Rutu Modan Candlewick Press/Toon Books
Zig and Wikki in The Cow Nadja Spiegelman and Trade Loeffler Candlewick Press/Toon Books
2014 Itty Bitty Hellboy Art Baltazar and Franco Dark Horse Comics Winner [1][4]
Benjamin Bear in Bright Ideas Philippe Coudray Toon Books Nominee [4]
The Big Wet Balloon Liniers Toon Books
Odd Duck Cecil Castellucci and Sara Varon First Second Books
Otto's Backwards Day Frank Cammuso with Jay Lynch Toon Books
2015 The Zoo Box Ariel Cohn and Aron Nels Steinke First Second Books Winner [1][5]
BirdCatDog Lee Nordling and Meritxell Bosch Lerner Publishing Group/Graphic Universe Nominee [5]
A Cat Named Tim And Other Stories John Martz Koyama Press
Hello Kitty, Hello 40: A Celebration in 40 Stories Traci N. Todd and Elizabeth Kawasaki (eds) Viz Media
Mermin, Book 3: Deep Dives Joey Weiser Oni Press
2016 Little Robot Ben Hatke First Second Books Winner [1][6]
Anna Banana and the Chocolate Explosion Dominque Roques and Alexis Dormal First Second Books Nominee [6][7]
The Only Child Guojing Schwartz & Wade
SheHeWe Lee Nordling and Meritxell Bosch Lerner Publishing Group/Graphic Universe
Written and Drawn by Henrietta Liniers Toon Books
2017 Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea Ben Clanton Tundra Books Winner [1][8]
Ape and Armadillo Take Over the World James Sturm Toon Books Nominee
Burt's Way Home John Martz Koyama Press
The Creeps, Book 2: The Trolls Will Feast! Chris Schweizer Abrams Books
I'm Grumpy Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm Random House
2018 Good Night, Planet Liniers Toon Books Winner [1]
Adele in Sand Land Claude Ponti, trans. by Skeeter Grant and Françoise Mouly Toon Books Nominee [9][10]
Arthur and the Golden Rope Joe Todd-Stanton Flying Eye Books/Nobrow Press
Egg Kevin Henkes Greenwillow Books
Little Tails in the Savannah Frederic Brrémaud and Federico Bertolucci, trans. by Mike Kennedy Lion Forge Comics/Magnetic Press
2019 Johnny Boo and the Ice Cream Computer James Kochalka Top Shelf Productions/IDW Publishing Winner [11][12]
Petals Gustavo Borges KaBOOM! Nominee [13]
Peter & Ernesto: A Tale of Two Sloths Graham Annable First Second Books
This is a Taco! Andrew Cangelose and Josh Shipley CubHouse/Lion Forge Comics
Tiger vs. Nightmare! Emily Tetri First Second Books
2020 Comics: Easy as ABC Ivan Brunetti Toon Books Winner [14][15][16]
Kitten Construction Company: A Bridge Too Fur John Patrick Green First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers Nominee [17]
The Pigeon HAS to Go to School! Mo Willems Hyperion Books
A Trip to the Top of the Volcano with Mouse Frank Viva Toon Books
¡Vamos! Let’s Go to the Market Raúl the Third Versify/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Who Wet My Pants? Bob Shea and Zachariah Ohora Little, Brown
2021 Our Little Kitchen Jillian Tamaki Abrams Books for Young Readers Winner [18]
Bear Ben Queen and Joe Todd-Stanton Archaia Entertainment/Boom! Studios Nominee [19]
Cat Kid Comic Club Dav Pilkey Scholastic Graphix
Donut Feed the Squirrels Mika Song Random House Graphic/Random House Children's Books
Kodi Jared Cullum Top Shelf Productions
Lift Minh Lê and Dan Santat Little, Brown Young Readers
2022 Chibi Usagi: Attack of the Heebie Chibis Julie and Stan Sakai IDW Publishing Winner [20][21]
Join the Crow Crowd! Elise Gravel HarperAlley Nominee [20][21]
I Am Oprah Winfrey Brad Meltzer and Christopher Eliopoulos Dial Books for Young Readers
Monster Friends Kaeti Vandorn Random House Graphic
Tiny Tales: Shell Quest Steph Waldo HarperAlley
2023 Beneath The Trees: A Fine Summer Dav Magnetic Press Nominee [22]
Fox + Chick: Up and Down: and Other Stories Sergio Ruzzier Chronicle Books
Grumpy Monkey Who Threw That? Suzanne Lang and Max Lang Random House Studio
Hey, Bruce!: An Interactive Book Ryan T. Higgins Disney/Hyperion
The Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster! Mo Willems Union Square Kids

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