The 2024 Rhode Island Children's Book Award winner is Killer Underwear Invasion!: How to Spot Fake News, Disinformation & Conspiracy Theories by Elise Gravel! This year 7,160 students from 99 schools and public libraries voted for their favorite 2024 nominee. A big thank you to all the librarians and teachers who promoted the list, connected kids with the books, and conducted voting!
The 2024 RIMSBA is Frizzy by Claribel Ortegal. Our two runner-up books are Weird Kid by Greg Van Eekhout and Invisible by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and Gabriel Epstein.
High school students from across Rhode Island have voted! We are thrilled to announce the winner of the 2024 Rhode Island Teen Book Award: Better than the Movies by Lynn Painter
Congratulations to this year’s winners!
I Want to be a Vase by Julio Torres (K-2 Grade)
The Note Keeper: A Story of Kindness from the Border by Stephen Briseño (3-5 Grade)
Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega (6-8 Grade)
Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories edited by Yamile Saied Méndez and Amparo Ortiz (9-12 Grade)