Elementary Library

2026 Beehive Nominees

Picture Books Buffalo Fluffalo Built to Last Dog vs. Strawberry Lucky Duck Millie Fleur’s Poison Garden The Quacken The Umbrella Witch and Wombat The World’s Best Class Plant The Yellow Bus

Informational The Bard and the Book: How the First Folio Saved the Plays of William Shakespeare from Oblivion Dive! The Story of Breathing Underwater Dogs: A History of Our Best Friends Enigma Girls: How 10 Teenagers Great Carrier Reef Milkweed for Monarchs Mona Lisa Vanishes One Day This Tree Will Fall Sick! The Twists and Turns Behind Animal Germs Virginia Wouldn’t Slow Down! The Kids Graphic Novels Duck and Moose: Duck Moves In Monkey King and the World of Myths: The Monster and the Maze Plain Jane and the Mermaid We Are Big Time Wires Crossed Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II Poetry And Then, Boom! Mysterious Marvelous Octopus Poetry Comics Skating Wild on an Inland Sea Zilot and Other Important Rhymes

Bess Kalb Minh Le Nelly Buchet Greg Pizzoli Christy Mandin Justin Colon Beth Ferry Ashley Belote Audrey Vernick Loren Long

Lisa Fipps Paige Towler Grant Snider Jean Pendziwol Bob Odinkirk

Kirk Redstrom Mapel Lam

Children’s Fiction Faker The Firefly Summer The Guardian Test Impossible Creatures A Royal Conundrum Safiyyah’s War

Gordon Korman Morgan Matson Christina Soontornvat Katherine Rundell Lisa Yee Hiba Noor Khan Rajani LaRocca Gennifer Choldenko

Vera Brosgol Hena Khan Beth Fantasky

Sona and the Golden Beasts The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman The Underdogs of Upson Downs The Wrong Way Home Young Adult Fiction Artifice *As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow *Bittersweet in the Hollow *Bright Red Fruit The Brightwood Code Come Home Safe Dungeons and Drama Sky’s End Thieves Gambit What the River Knows Teen Graphic Novels Ash’s Cabin The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust memoir of Hope and Survival How It All Ends Luna New Year Love Story The Mythmakers

Ann Bausum

Craig Silvey

Chris Gall

Kate O’Shaughnessy

Lita Judge Candace Fleming

Sharon Cameron Zouolfa Katouh

Jessica Stremer Christine Van Zandt Nicholas Day Leslie Barnard Booth Heather Montgomery

Kate Pearsall Safia Elhillo Monica Hesse Brian Buckmire Kristy Boyce Marc J Gregson Kayvion Lewis Isabel Ibanez

Carrie A. Pearson

Unstoppable Dr. Apgar and Her Life-Saving Invention

Jen Wang Estelle Nadel

Emma Hunsinger Gene Luen Yang John Hendrix

*For Mature Readers