The 2024 Little Peeps Awards Short List for Early Readers and Children’s Books

It’s time to cheer on Guinea Pig Power and the rest of the books on the list!

Guinea Pig Power and these other titles have made the short list and are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2024 Little Peeps Book Awards competition for Children’s Fiction!

These titles have moved forward  from the 2024 LITTLE PEEPS LONG LIST to the 2024 Little Peeps Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

• Ben St. James – Guinea Pig Power
• Claire Annette Nolad – Nancy Bess Had a Dress
• Ann Marie Perales Thompson – Halloween Pumpkins in Spring
• Lynne Gobioff – Bad Luck Kitty
• Michele L. Sayre – Along Came Spider the Making of a Superhero the Web Society
• Jack Wiens – What Bear Said
• Anne Lacourrege – The Greatest Treasure
• Rory Foresman – Timber and Loony Moony Night Rescue Book 2
• Kimberley Lovato – Pisa Loves Bella a Towering Tale of Kindness
• Anita Dromey – Littlest Mano at Bedtime
• Kristen J Anderson – Lorelei the Lorelei: The First of Many Firsts
• Ollie Miller – What is This?
• Miki Taylor – Bentley Makes a Dump Cake
• Elizabeth Fulgaro – Santa Claus Celebrates Jesus’s Birthday
• Robyn McCullough – The Journey of the Wee Shell
• Tracy Spring – Love Doesn’t Care Who You Love
• Raven Howell – Keep Trucking
• A.J. Chilson – Mary the Merry Miracle
• Brian Cleven – Kenzie Runs the World
• Grace Wolf – May I Come to Your Party?
• Stephen G. Bowling – Grandma’s House is Haunted
• P.E. Calvert & Charlotte Calvert Piel – WWCC Heroes: Pablo’s Adventure
• Irit Tal – Popina & Slumberina
• Lexie Kattelman – Grace’s Groceries: An Introduction to Intuitive Eating
• Dave O’Hare – Quigley Lopez, Saving Perseverance
• Anthony Delauney – Iver and Luke and the Friends-for-Others-Club
• Julie Lomax – Melissa Moo Moo’s Special Lesson
• Sara H. Fowler – Castle of Knots
• Samantha Pillay – When I’m the President
• Melissa Rousu – Grandpa Loved Wild Things
• Daryllen Stone – Sienna the Spotless Giraffe
• Ruthie Godfrey – Grumpy Grump
• Regina Tranfa – My Dad Took Me To Dinosaur land
• Adalgisa and David Nico – Frogs on the Mountain: The Mountain Yellow-Legged Frogs in Yosemite
• Shane Svorec – Acorn Adventures
• Sheryl Bass – Baby Dragon Finds His Family
• Katharine Mitropoulos – Let’s Work Smarter
• Ruth Amanda – Ess-Car-Go!
• Ruth Amanda – Island Moon
• Ruth Amanda – There’s a Pigeon in St Pancras
• Nico Altamirano – The Crocodile Choir
• Leila Summers – Mog and Tom
• Milt Lowe – The Hippo Who Hated To Fight
• Kat Chen – Play Outside With Me
• Anna Casamento Arrigo – My Mocha Skin
• Anna Casamento Arrigo – Tessy Turtle
• Ashley Wall – The Day I Had a Dinosaur
• Shaziya M. Jaffer, Jessica Alexanderson and Brad W. Rudover – A Recycling Adventure to the Scrapyard!
• Alysson Foti Bourque – Alycat and the Sunday Scaries
• Anthony C. Delauney – Akash and Mila and the Big Jump
• Rae St. Clair Bridgman – Good Night, Good Night, Victoria Beach
• Mike Mirabella and Lenny Lipton – I Used to Be Shy
• Antwinette Scott – The Land of Hearts
• Sands Hetherington – Night Buddies and Evil School Bus #264

View the original Short List here!