Learn more about the Maud Hart Lovelace awards in the summaries below!

2023 Maud Hart Lovelace Nominees

  • The Best of Iggy by Annie Barrows

  • Coop Knows the Scoop by Taryn Souders  

  • The Lion of Mars by Jennifer L. Holm

  • The Littlest Voyageur
    by Margi Preus; illustrated 
    by Cheryl Pilgrim

  • Measuring Up 
    by Lily Lamotte; illustrated Ann Xu

  • Ways to Make Sunshine
    by Renée Watson 

  • Brave Like That
    by Lindsey Stoddard

  • City Spies by James Ponti

  • Count Me In by Varsha Bajaj 

  • Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly