Kirkus Prize: young readers' literature

Kirkus Reviews, an American book-review magazine founded in 1933, created the Kirkus Prize in 2014. It is one of the richest literary awards in the world, bestowing $50,000 annually upon the winning authors of fiction, nonfiction, and young readers’ literature.

2024: Gather, by Kenneth M. Cadow

2023: America Redux: Visual Stories From Our Dynamic History, by Ariel Aberg-Riger

2022: Himawari House, by Harmony Becker

2021: All Thirteen, by Christina Soontornvat

2020: I Am Every Good Thing, by Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James

2019: New Kid, by Jerry Craft

2018: Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut, by Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James.

2017: What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories, by Lesley Nneka Arimah

2016: As Brave as You, by Jason Reynolds

2015: Echo, by Pam Muñoz Ryan

2014: Aviary Wonders Inc.: Spring Catalog and Instruction Manual, by Kate Samworth