| Year |
Title |
Authors |
Ref. |
| 2000s |
| 2008 |
Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 and Mouse Guard: Winter 1152 (Archaia Entertainment) |
David Petersen |
[1] |
| Amelia Rules! and Amelia Rules! Funny Stories (Renaissance Press) |
Jimmy Gownley |
| Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures (Dark Horse Comics) |
edited by Jeremy Barlow |
| The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
Peter Sís |
| Yotsuba&! (ADV Manga) |
Kiyohiko Azuma |
| 2009 |
Tiny Titans (DC Comics) |
Art Baltazar and Franco Aureliani |
[2][3] |
| Amulet Book 1: The Stonekeeper (Scholastic Graphix) |
Kazu Kibuishi |
| Cowa! (Viz Media) |
Akira Toriyama |
| Princess at Midnight (Image Comics) |
Andi Watson |
| Stinky (RAW Junior) |
Eleanor Davis |
| 2010s |
| 2010 |
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Marvel Comics) |
L. Frank Baum, adapted by Eric Shanower, and Skottie Young |
[4][5] |
| Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute (Alfred A. Knopf) |
Jarrett J. Krosoczka |
| The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook (Bloomsbury Publishing) |
Eleanor Davis |
| Tiny Tyrant, vol. 1: The Ethelbertosaurus (First Second Books) |
Lewis Trondheim and Fabrice Parme |
| The TOON Treasury of Classic Children’s Comics (Abrams ComicArts/Toon Books) |
edited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly |
| 2011 |
Tiny Titans (DC Comics) |
Art Baltazar and Franco Aureliani |
[6][7] |
| Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean (Center for Cartoon Studies/Disney Press/Hyperion Books for Children) |
Sara Stewart Taylor and Ben Towle |
| Amelia Rules!: True Things (Adults Don’t Want Kids to Know) (Atheneum Books/Simon & Schuster) |
Jimmy Gownley |
| Binky to the Rescue (Kids Can Press) |
Ashley Spires |
| Scratch9 (Ape Entertainment) |
Rob M. Worley and Jason T. Kruse |
| The Unsinkable Walker Bean (First Second Books) |
Aaron Renier |
| 2012 |
Snarked! (KaBOOM!) |
Roger Langridge |
[8][7] |
| The All-New Batman: The Brave and the Bold (DC Comics) |
Sholly Fisch, Rick Burchett, and Dan Davis |
| Amelia Rules: The Meaning of Life ... And Other Stuff (Atheneum Books) |
Jimmy Gownley |
| The Ferret's a Foot (Graphic Universe/Lerner Books) |
Colleen AF Venable and Stephanie Yue |
| Princeless (Action Lab Comics) |
Jeremy Whitley and Mia Goodwin |
| Zita the Spacegirl (First Second Books) |
Ben Hatke |
| 2013 |
Adventure Time (KaBOOM!) |
Ryan North, Shelli Paroline, and Braden Lamb |
[9][7] |
| Amulet Book 5: Prince of the Elves (Scholastic Graphix) |
Kazu Kibuishi |
| Cow Boy: A Boy and His Horse (Archaia Entertainment) |
Nate Cosby and Chris Eliopoulos |
| Crogan's Loyalty (Oni Press) |
Chris Schweizer |
| Hilda and the Midnight Giant (Nobrow Press) |
Luke Pearson |
| The Road to Oz (Marvel Comics) |
L. Frank Baum, adapted by Eric Shanower and Skottie Young |
| 2014 |
The Adventures of Superhero Girl (Dark Horse Comics) |
Faith Erin Hicks |
[10][7] |
| Hilda and the Bird Parade (Nobrow Press) |
Luke Pearson |
| Jane, the Fox and Me (Groundwood Books) |
Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault, translated by Susan Ouriou and Christelle Morelli |
| The Lost Boy (Scholastic Graphix) |
Greg Ruth |
| Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard vol. 2 edited (Archaia Entertainment/Boom! Studios) |
David Petersen, Paul Morrissey, and Rebecca Taylor |
| Star Wars: Jedi Academy (Scholastic Kids) |
Jeffrey Brown |
| 2015 |
El Deafo (Amulet Books/Abrams Books) |
Cece Bell |
[11][7] |
| Batman Li'l Gotham, vol. 2 (DC Comics) |
Derek Fridolfs and Dustin Nguyen |
| I Was the Cat (Oni Press) |
Paul Tobin and Benjamin Dewey |
| Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland (IDW Publishing) |
Eric Shanower and Gabriel Rodriguez |
| Tiny Titans: Return to the Treehouse (DC Comics) |
Art Baltazar and Franco Aureliani |
| 2016 |
Over the Garden Wall (Boom! Studios/KaBOOM!) |
Pat McHale, Amalia Levari, and Jim Campbell |
[12][7] |
| Baba Yaga's Assistant (Candlewick Press) |
Marika McCoola and Emily Carroll |
| Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War (Kids Can Press) |
Jessica Dee Humphreys, Michel Chikwanine, and Claudia Dávila |
| Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: The Underground Abductor (Abrams Books/Amulet Books) |
Nathan Hale |
| Roller Girl (Dial Press) |
Victoria Jamieson |
| Sunny Side Up (Scholastic Graphix) |
Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm |
| 2017 |
Ghosts (Scholastic Graphix) |
Raina Telgemeier |
[13][7] |
| The Drawing Lesson (Ten Speed Press) |
Mark Crilley |
| Hilda and the Stone Forest (Flying Eye Books) |
Luke Pearson |
| Rikki (Karate Petshop) |
Rudyard Kipling, adapted by Norm Harper and Matthew Foltz-Gray |
| Science Comics: Dinosaurs (First Second Books) |
MK Reed and Joe Flood |
| 2018 |
The Tea Dragon Society (Oni Press) |
Kay O'Neill |
[14][7] |
| Bolivar (Archaia Entertainment) |
Sean Rubin |
| Home Time, Book One: Under the River (Top Shelf Productions) |
Campbell Whyte |
| Nightlights (Nobrow Press) |
Lorena Alvarez |
| Wallace the Brave (Andrews McMeel Publishing) |
Will Henry |
| 2019 |
The Nameless City: The Divided Earth (First Second Books) |
Faith Erin Hicks |
[15][16] |
| Aquicorn Cove (Oni Press) |
Kay O'Neill |
| Be Prepared (First Second Books) |
Vera Brosgol |
| The Cardboard Kingdom (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House Children’s Books) |
Chad Sell |
| Crush (JY/Yen Press) |
Svetlana Chmakova |
| 2020s |
| 2020 |
Guts (Scholastic Graphix) |
Raina Telgemeier |
[17][18] |
| Akissi: More Tales of Mischief (Flying Eye Books/Nobrow Press) |
Marguerite Abouet and Mathieu Sapin |
| Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls (Scholastic Graphix) |
Dav Pilkey |
| New Kid (Quill Tree Books/HarperCollins) |
Jerry Craft |
| This Was Our Pact (First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers) |
Ryan Andrews |
| The Wolf in Underpants (Graphic Universe/Lerner Publishing Group) |
Wilfrid Lupano, Mayana Itoïz, and Paul Cauuet |
| 2021 |
Superman Smashes the Klan (DC Comics) |
Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru |
[19][20] |
| Doodleville (Knopf Books for Young Readers/Random House Children's Books) |
Chad Sell |
| Go with the Flow (First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers) |
Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann |
| Mister Invincible: Local Hero (Magnetic Press) |
Pascal Jousselin |
| Snapdragon (First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers) |
Kat Leyh |
| Twins (Scholastic Graphix) |
Varian Johnson and Shannon Wright |
| 2022 |
Salt Magic (Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House) |
Hope Larson and Rebecca Monk |
[21] |
| Allergic (Scholastic) |
Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter |
| Four Fisted Tales: Animals in Combat (Dead Reckoning) |
Ben Towle |
| Rainbow Bridge (Aftershock Comics) |
Steve Orlando, Steve Foxe, and Valentina Brancati |
| Saving Sorya: Chang and the Sun Bear (Dial Books for Young Readers) |
Trang Nguyen and Jeet Zdung |
| The Science of Surfing: A Surfside Girls Guide to the Ocean (Top Shelf) |
Kim Dwinell |
| 2023 |
Frizzy (First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers) |
Claribel A. Ortega and Rose Bousamra |
|
| Adventuregame Comics: Leviathan (Amulet/Abrams) |
Jason Shiga |
|
| Isla to Island (Atheneum/Simon & Schuster) |
Alexis Castellanos |
|
| Little Monarchs (Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House) |
Jonathan Case |
|
| Swim Team (HarperAlley) |
Johnnie Christmas |
|
| 2024 |
Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir (Dial Books for Young Readers) |
Pedro Martín |
[22] |
| Buzzing (Little, Brown Ink) |
Samuel Sattin and Rye Hickman |
| Missing You (Oni Press) |
Phellip Willian, Melissa Garabeli, and Fabio Ramos |
| Mabuhay! (Scholastic Graphix) |
Zachary Sterling |
| Saving Sunshine (First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers) |
Saadia Faruqi and Shazleen Khan |
| 2025 |
Plain Jane and the Mermaid (First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers) |
Vera Brosgol |
[23] |
| How It All Ends (Greenwillow/HarperCollins Early Readers) |
Emma Hunsinger |
| Next Stop (Random House Graphic) |
Debbie Fong |
| Weirdo (First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers) |
Tony Weaver Jr. and Jes & Cin Wibowo |
| Young Hag and the Witches' Quest |
Isabel Greenberg |