Audie Award for Young Listeners' Title The Audie Award for Young Listeners' Title is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in narration, production, and content for a children's audiobook intended for children up to the age of 8 released in a given year. From 2004 to 2015 it was given as the Audie Award for Children's Title for Ages Up to Eight . Before 2004 it was given as the Audie Award for Children's Title for Ages Zero to Seven . It has been awarded since 2001, when it was separated from the more expansive Audie Award for Children's Title .
Winners and finalists
Winners are listed first each year and highlighted in light green.
2000s
Year
Audiobook
Author(s)
Narrator(s)
Publisher
Result
Ref.
20016th
Ouch! (1998)
Natalie Babbitt
Martin Jarvis
Live Oak Media
Winner
[ 1] [ 2]
Charlie Parker Played Be Bop (1997)
Chris Raschka
Richard Allen
Live Oak Media
Finalist
[ 1]
The Polar Express (1985)
Chris Van Allsburg
Liam Neeson
Houghton Mifflin
Finalist
[ 1]
20027th
Ballet Stories (2001)
David Angus
Jenny Agutter
Naxos Audiobooks
Winner
[ 2] [ 3]
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses (1978)
Paul Goble
Lance White Magpie
Live Oak Media
Finalist
[ 3]
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat (2000)
Simms Taback
Simms Taback
Live Oak Media
Finalist
[ 3]
20038th
The Blues of Flats Brown (2000)
Walter Dean Myers
Charles Turner
Live Oak Media
Winner
[ 2] [ 4]
In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall (2004)
Folami Abiade and Dinah Johnson
Javaka Steptoe , Robin Miles , Charles Turner, and Lizan Mitchell
Live Oak Media
Finalist
[ 4]
John Coltrane's Giant Steps (1960)
Chris Raschka
Richard Allen
Live Oak Media
Finalist
[ 4]
Saving Sweetness (1996)
Diane Stanley
Tom Bodett
Live Oak Media
Finalist
[ 4]
Sheila Rae, the Brave (1987)
Kevin Henkes
Laura Hamilton
Live Oak Media
Finalist
[ 4]
20049th
Chato and the Party Animals (2000)
Gary Soto
Luis Guzmán
Weston Woods
Winner
[ 2] [ 5]
Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa (2002)
Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney
Billy Dee Williams
Weston Woods
Finalist
[ 5]
Green Eggs and Ham (1960)
Dr. Seuss
Jason Alexander , David Hyde Pierce , and Michael McKean
Random House Audio
Finalist
[ 5]
Raising Sweetness (1999)
Diane Stanley
Tom Bodett
Live Oak Media
Finalist
[ 5]
The Tale of Despereaux (2003)
Kate DiCamillo
Graeme Malcolm
Random House Audio
Finalist
[ 5]
200510th
What Charlie Heard (2002)
Mordicai Gerstein
Mordicai Gerstein
Live Oak Media
Winner
[ 2] [ 6]
Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye , The Curse of the Cheese Pyramid , (2004)
Geronimo Stilton
Edward Herrmann
Listening Library
Finalist
[ 6]
Cat and Mouse in a Haunted House (2004)
Geronimo Stilton
Edward Herrmann
Listening Library
Finalist
[ 6]
I Stink! (2002)
Kate and Jim McMullan
Andy Richter
Weston Woods
Finalist
[ 6]
The Neil Gaiman Audio Collection (2004)
Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman
HarperAudio
Finalist
[ 6]
When Marian Sang (2002)
Pam Muñoz Ryan
Gail Nelson
Live Oak Media
Finalist
[ 6]
200611th
Arnie the Doughnut (2003)
Laurie Keller
Michael McKean , Diana Canova , David de Vries, et al.
Weston Woods
Winner
[ 2]
A Bear Called Paddington (1958)
Michael Bond
Stephen Fry
HarperAudio
Finalist
The Big Blueberry Barf-Off! (2005)
R. L. Stine
Michael McKean
HarperAudio
Finalist
Blues Journey (2003)
Walter Dean Myers
Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers
Live Oak Media
Finalist
Ellen Tebbits (1951)
Beverly Cleary
Amanda Martin
HarperAudio
Finalist
The Great Smelling Bee (2005)
R. L. Stine
Michael McKean
HarperAudio
Finalist
200712th
Knuffle Bunny (2005)
Mo Willems
Mo Willems , Cher, and Trixie Willems
Weston Woods
Winner
[ 2] [ 7]
Dog Den Mystery (2005)
Darrel and Sally Odgers
Alan King
Bolinda Audio
Finalist
Murmel Murmel Munsch! (1982)
Robert Munsch
Robert Munsch
The Children's Group
Finalist
Piccolo and Annabelle: Very Messy Inspection (2004)
Stephen Axelson
Stanley McGeagh
Bolinda Audio
Finalist
Poetry Speaks to Children (2005)
Elise Paschen
Rita Dove , Ogden Nash , et al.
Sourcebooks
Finalist
200813th
More About Paddington (1959)
Michael Bond
Stephen Fry
Harper Children's Audio
Winner
[ 2]
In Aunt Giraffe's Green Garden (2007)
Jack Prelutsky
Jack Prelutsky
HarperAudio
Finalist
Goodnight Hawaiian Moon (2006)
Terry Carolan
Amy Hānaialiʻi Gilliom
Banana Patch
Finalist
Ogre in a Toga (2008)
Geoffrey McSkimming
Geoffrey McSkimming
Bolinda Audio
Finalist
The One and Only Shrek! (1990)
William Steig
Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci
Macmillan Audio
Finalist
200914th
James Herriot's Treasury for Children (1992)
James Herriot
Jim Dale
Macmillan Audio
Winner
[ 2] [ 8]
Do Unto Otters (2007)
Laurie Keller
Jack Sundrud , Galen Fott , Rusty Young, David de Vries, Diana Canova , et al.
Weston Woods
Finalist
Hip Hop Speaks to Children (2009)
Nikki Giovanni
Nikki Giovanni
Scourcebooks Jabberwocky
Finalist
The Shoe Bird (2008)
Samuel Jones
Jim Dale
Brilliance Audio
Finalist
What Do You Do with a Kangaroo? (1973)
Mercer Mayer
Jane Casserly
Scholastic Audio
Finalist
2010s
Year
Audiobook
Author(s)
Narrator(s)
Publisher
Result
Ref.
201015th
Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken (2008)
Kate DiCamillo
Barbara Rosenblat
Live Oak Media
Winner
[ 2] [ 9]
A Dog on His Own (2008)
Mary Jane Auch
William Dufris
Full Cast Audio
Finalist
Arabel's Raven (1972)
Joan Aiken
Sneha Mathan
Listen & Live Audio
Finalist
Friend or Fiend?: With the Pain and the Great One (2008)
Judy Blume
Kathleen McInerney and Judy Blume
Listening Library
Finalist
Knuffle Bunny Too (2007)
Mo Willems
Mo Willems and Trixie Willems
Weston Woods
Finalist
201116th
This Jazz Man (2006)
Karen Ehrhardt
James D-Train Williams
Live Oak Media
Winner
[ 2] [ 10]
One Beastly Beast (2007)
Garth Nix
Stig Wemyss
Bolinda Audio
Finalist
Judy Moody & Stink: The Holly Joliday (2008)
Megan McDonald
Barbara Rosenblat
Brilliance
Finalist
Despicable Me (2010)
Annie Auerbach
Tim Curry
Hachette Audio
Finalist
Epossumondas Plays Possum (2009)
Coleen Salley
Cynthia Darlow
Recorded Books
Finalist
201217th
Django, World's Greatest Jazz Guitarist (2009)
Bonnie Christensen
George Guidall
Live Oak Media
Winner
[ 2] [ 11] [ 12]
Black Jack: The Ballad of Jack Johnson (2010)
Charles R. Smith, Jr.
Dion Graham
Live Oak Media
Finalist
Looking Like Me (2009)
Walter Dean Myers
Dion Graham and Quincy Tyler Bernstine
Live Oak Media
Finalist
Stone Soup (2003)
Jon J. Muth
B. D. Wong
Weston Woods
Finalist
Wolf Pie (2010)
Brenda Seabrooke
Andrew Watts
Recorded Books
Finalist
201318th
The Great Cake Mystery (2012)
Alexander McCall Smith
Adjoa Andoh
Listening Library
Winner
[ 2] [ 13]
Knuffle Bunny Free (2010)
Mo Willems
Mo Willems
Weston Woods
Finalist
A Sick Day for Amos McGee (2010)
Philip C. Stead and Erin Stead
David de Vries
Weston Woods
Finalist
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1969)
William Steig
James Earl Jones
Simon & Schuster Audio
Finalist
We Are America (2011)
Walter Dean Myers
MacLeod Andrews , Olivia Duford, Dion Graham , Lizan Mitchell , Christopher Myers , Walter Dean Myers , Johanna Parker, Adriana Sananes, and Kaipo Schwab
Live Oak Media
Finalist
201419th
Hooray for Anna Hibiscus! (2008)
Atinuke
Mutiyat Ade-Salu
Recorded Books
Winner
[ 2] [ 14]
Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake (2011)
Michael B. Kaplan
Katherine Kellgren
Live Oak Media
Finalist
[ 14]
Creepy Carrots! (2012)
Aaron Reynolds
James Naughton
Weston Woods
Finalist
[ 14]
The Dark (2013)
Lemony Snicket
Neil Gaiman
Hachette Audio
Finalist
[ 14]
Nelson Mandela (2013)
Kadir Nelson
Forest Whitaker
Weston Woods
Finalist
[ 14]
Stink and the Freaky Frog Freakout (2013)
Megan McDonald
Barbara Rosenblat
Brilliance Audio
Finalist
[ 14]
201520th
H.O.R.S.E.: A Game of Basketball and Imagination (2012)
Christopher Myers
Christopher Myers and Dion Graham
Live Oak Media
Winner
[ 2] [ 15]
Deep in the Swamp (2007)
Donna M. Bateman
Tom Chapin
Live Oak Media
Finalist
[ 15]
Follow, Follow: A Book of Reverso Poems (2013)
Marilyn Singer
Marilyn Singer and Joe Morton
Live Oak Media
Finalist
[ 15]
Josephine (2013)
Patricia Hruby Powell
Lizan Mitchell
Recorded Books
Finalist
[ 15]
This Is Not My Hat (2012)
Jon Klassen
John Keating
Weston Woods
Finalist
[ 15]
Timeless Tales of Beatrix Potter (1901–1930)
Beatrix Potter
Katherine Kellgren
Tantor Audio
Finalist
[ 15]
201621st
Little Shop of Monsters (2015)
R. L. Stine and Marc Brown
Jack Black
Hachette Audio
Winner
[ 2] [ 16]
Appleblossom the Possum (2015)
Holly Goldberg Sloan
Dustin Hoffman
Listening Library/Penguin Random House Audio
Finalist
[ 16]
Brother Hugo and the Bear (2014)
Katy Beebe and S. D. Schindler
Gildart Jackson
Dreamscape
Finalist
[ 16]
Dory Fantasmagory (2014)
Abby Hanlon
Suzy Jackson
Recorded Books
Finalist
[ 16]
The Eloise Collection (1955–1959)
Kay Thompson
Bernadette Peters with music by Anthony de Mare
Simon & Schuster Audio
Finalist
[ 16]
Niño Wrestles the World (2013)
Yuyi Morales
Adriana Sananes
Dreamscape
Finalist
[ 16]
201722nd
28 Days: Moments in Black History That Changed the World (2015)
Charles R. Smith, Jr.
Dion Graham , William Jackson Harper , Zainab Jah , January LaVoy , Robin Miles , Lizan Mitchell , Jonathan Earl Peck, and Carter Woodson Redwood
Live Oak Media
Winner
[ 2] [ 17]
Island Treasures: Growing Up in Cuba (2015)
Alma Flor Ada
Trini Alvarado
Recorded Books
Finalist
[ 17]
The Quentin Blake and John Yeoman Collection (2016)
Quentin Blake and John Yeoman
Stephen Thorne
Bolinda Audio
Finalist
[ 17]
The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots (2016; written 1914)
Beatrix Potter
Helen Mirren
Listening Library
Finalist
[ 17]
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer (2015)
Carole Boston Weatherford
Janina Edwards
Dreamscape
Finalist
[ 17]
The Wooden Prince (2016)
John Claude Bemis
Ralph Lister
Oasis Audio
Finalist
[ 17]
201823rd
Trombone Shorty (2015)
Troy Andrews
Dion Graham
Live Oak Media
Winner
[ 2] [ 18]
Mother Bruce (2015)
Ryan T. Higgins
Robertson Dean
Weston Woods
Finalist
[ 18]
Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day (2016)
Andrea Davis Pinkney
Channie Waites
Recorded Books
Finalist
[ 18]
Princess Cora and the Crocodile (2017)
Laura Amy Schlitz
Davina Porter
Recorded Books
Finalist
[ 18]
A Sick Day for Amos McGee (2010)
Philip C. Stead
Jim Dale
Macmillan Audio
Finalist
[ 18]
201924th
Before She Was Harriet (2017)
Lesa Cline-Ransome
SiSi Aisha Johnson , January LaVoy , Lisa Renee Pitts, and Bahni Turpin
Live Oak Media
Finalist
[ 2] [ 19]
Dreamers (2018)
Yuyi Morales
Adriana Sananes
Dreamscape
Finalist
Esquivel!: Space-Age Sound Artist (2016)
Susan Wood
Brian Amador
Live Oak Media
Finalist
Her Right Foot (2017)
Dave Eggers
Dion Graham
Recorded Books
Finalist
We Found a Hat (2016)
Jon Klassen
Johnny Heller and Christopher Curry
Weston Woods
Finalist
2020s
Year
Audiobook
Author(s)
Narrator(s)
Publisher
Result
Ref.
202025th
The Pigeon HAS to Go to School! (2019)
Mo Willems
Mo Willems
Weston Woods
Winner
[ 20]
How to Read a Book (2019)
Kwame Alexander
Kwame Alexander
HarperAudio
Finalist
[ 20]
The Lion King (2019)
Elizabeth Rudnick and Disney Press
Janina Edwards
Blackstone Audio
Finalist
[ 20]
Rumple Buttercup (2019)
Matthew Gray Gubler
Matthew Gray Gubler
Penguin Random House Audio
Finalist
[ 20]
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga (2018)
Traci Sorell
Lauren Hummingbird , Agalisiga "Choogie" Mackey, Ryan Mackey, Traci Sorell, and Tonia Weavel
Live Oak Media
Finalist
[ 20]
The Word Collector (2018)
Peter H. Reynolds
Guy Lockard
Weston Woods
Finalist
[ 20]
2021
26th
The Overground Railroad
Lesa Cline-Ransome
Shayna Small and Dion Graham
Live Oak Media
Winner
[ 21]
Going Down Home with Daddy (2019)
Kelly Starling Lyons
Daxton Edwards
Dreamscape Media LLC
Finalist
[ 21]
Rise! From Caged Bird to Poet of the People, Maya Angelou
Bethany Hegedus
Cherise Boothe
Live Oak Media
Finalist
[ 21]
Say Something
Peter H. Reynolds
Peter H. Reynolds
Weston Woods Studios
Finalist
[ 21]
The Sesame Street Podcast with Foley and Friends
Sesame Workshop
Lindsey Briggs , Tyler Bunch, Ryan Dillon, and a full cast
Audible Studios
Finalist
[ 21]
Stuck
Chris Grabenstein
Mark Sanderlin , Elizabeth Hess, Oliver Wyman, Farah Bala, Rita Wolf, Caroline Grogan, Cynthia Darlow, Mateo D'Amato, J.J. Myers, Neil Hellegers, Genesis Oliver, and Chris Grabenstein
Audible Originals
Finalist
[ 21]
2022
27th
I and I Bob Marley
Tony Medina
Jaime Lincoln Smith and Tony Medina
Live Oak Media
Winner
[ 22]
Boogie Boogie, Y'all
C. G. Esperanza
C. G. Esperanza
HarperAudio
Finalist
[ 22]
The Couch Potato
Jory John
Kirby Heyborne
HarperAudio
Finalist
[ 22]
Jasmine Toguchi, Mochi Queen
Debbi Michiko Florence
Allison Hiroto
OrangeSky Audio
Finalist
[ 22]
Remember to Dream, Ebere
Cynthia Erivo
Cynthia Erivo
Hachette Audio
Finalist
[ 22]
2023
28th
A Door Made for Me
Tyler Merritt
Tyler Merritt
Hachette Audio
Winner
[ 23]
Our Table
Peter H. Reynolds
Peter H. Reynolds
Weston Woods Studios
Finalist
[ 23]
Patchwork
Matt de la Peña
Philip Hernandez , Catherine Ho , Dion Graham , Finlay Stevenson , Arischa Conner , and Sunil Malhotra
Penguin Random House Audio
Finalist
[ 23]
When Grandfather Flew
Patricia MacLachlan
Katie Schorr and George Guidall
Live Oak Media
Finalist
[ 23]
Where Snow Angels Go
Maggie O'Farrell
Ruth Negga
Dreamscape Media
Finalist
[ 23]
2024
29th
The Skull
Jon Klassen
Fairuza Balk and Jon Klassen
Dreamscape Media
Winner
[ 24]
Carina Felina
Carmen Agra Deedy
Carmen Agra Deedy
Scholastic Audio
Finalist
[ 24]
I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know
Leslie Odom Jr. and Nicolette Robinson
Leslie Odom Jr. and Nicolette Robinson
Macmillan Audio
Finalist
[ 24]
Twelve Dinging Doorbells
Tameka Fryer Brown
January LaVoy
Listening Library
Finalist
[ 24]
There Was a Party for Langston
Jason Reynolds
Jason Reynolds
Recorded Books
Finalist
[ 24]
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