Krout and Elmore Children’s Book Award: Previous Winners

2025

Winner:  Just Like Grandma by Kim Rogers and illustrated by Julie Flett; Published 2023, Heartdrum

Finalists:

• Eighteen Flowers for Grandama by Alison Goldberg & Jesse White, Red Comet Press

• Bompa's Insect Expedition by David Suzuki & Tanya Lloyd Kyi, illustrated by Qin Leng, Greystone Books

• The Blue Pickup by Natasha Tripplett, illustrated by Monica Mikai, Harper Collins

• Old to Joy by Anita Crawford Clark, Gnome Road Publishing

• Words Between Us by Angela Pham Krans, illustrated by Dung Ho, Harper Collins

2024

Primary Reader:  Grandad's Pride by Harry Woodgate; Published 2023, Little Bee Books

Honorable Mention:  Dancing in Thatha’s Footsteps by Srividhya Venkat and illustrated by Kavita Ramchandran; Published 2021, Yali Books 

Elementary Reader:  Abuelita and Me by Leonarda Carranza and illustrated by Rafail Mayani; Published 2022, Annick Press

Honorable Mention: 

2022

Recipient:  On the Trapline by David A. Robertson and illustrated by Julie Flett; Published 2021, Tundra Books

Honorable Mention:  Coffee, Rabbit, Snowdrop, Lost by Betina Birkjaer and illustrated by Anna Margrethe Kjærgaard; Published 2021, Enchanted Lion

2018

Primary Reader:  It’s Just Aging by Eliah Takushi, Carly Tan, and Colby Takeda; Published 2015, Mutual Pub Co

Elementary Reader:  Hour of the Bees by Lindsay Eagar; Published 2016, Walker Books

2016

Primary Reader:  Papa Chagall, Tell Us a Story by Laurence Anholt; Published 2015, Frances Lincoln Children’s Books

Elementary Reader:  The Turtle of Oman by Naomi Shihab Nye; Published 2016, Greenwillow Books

Honorable Mention:  Nana in the City by Lauren Castillo; Published 2014, Clarion Books

2014

Primary Reader:  Shoebox Sam by Mary Brigid Barrett and illustrated by Frank Morrison; Published 2011, Zonderkidz

Elementary Reader:  Marching with Aunt Susan: Susan B. Anthony and the Fight for Women's Suffrage by Claire Rudolph Murphy and illustrated by Stacey Schuett; Published 2011, Peachtree

2011

Primary Reader:  Sometimes It's Grandmas and Grandpas: Not Mommies and Daddies by Gayle Byrne and illustrated by Mary Haverfield; Published 2009, Abbeville Kids

2010

Primary Reader:  Niwechihaw/I Help by Caitlin Dale Nicholson; Published 2008, Groundwood Books

Elementary Reader:  Ain't Nobody A Stranger to Me by Ann Grifalconi and illustrated by Jerry Pickney; Published 2007, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 

2009

Primary Reader:  Rock, Brock and the Savings Shock by Sheila Bair and illustrated by Barry Gott; Published 2006, Albert Whitman & Company

Elementary Reader:  The Golden Rule by Ilene Cooper and illustrated by Gabi Swiatowska; Published 2007, Abrams Books for Young Readers