Eisner Award for Best Publication for Early Readers


The Eisner Award for Best Publication for Early Readers is an award for "creative achievement" in American comic books for early readers.

Name change

From 2012 to 2015 the award was appended with "up to age 7" and from 2016 to 2019 it was appended with "up to age 8". For the 2020 awards the age designation was dropped.

Winners and nominees

YearTitleAuthorsPublisherResult
2012Dragon Puncher IslandTop Shelf ProductionsWinner
2012Beauty and the Squat BearsYen PressNominee
2012Benjamin Bear in Fuzzy ThinkingCandlewick Press/Toon BooksNominee
2012Nursery Rhyme Comics First Second BooksNominee
2012Patrick in a Teddy Bear's PicnicCandlewick Press/Toon BooksNominee
2013Babymouse for President and Matthew HolmRandom HouseWinner
2013Benny and Penny in Lights OutCandlewick Press/Toon BooksNominee
2013Kitty & DinoYen Press/Hachette Book GroupNominee
2013Maya Makes a MessCandlewick Press/Toon BooksNominee
2013Zig and Wikki in The Cow and Trade LoefflerCandlewick Press/Toon BooksNominee
2014Itty Bitty Hellboy and FrancoDark Horse ComicsWinner
2014Benjamin Bear in Bright IdeasToon BooksNominee
2014'Toon BooksNominee
2014Odd Duck and Sara VaronFirst Second BooksNominee
2014Otto's Backwards Day with Jay LynchToon BooksNominee
2015' and Aron Nels SteinkeFirst Second BooksWinner
2015BirdCatDog and Meritxell BoschLerner Publishing Group/Graphic UniverseNominee
2015'Koyama PressNominee
2015Hello Kitty, Hello 40: A Celebration in 40 Stories and Elizabeth Kawasaki Viz MediaNominee
2015Mermin, Book 3: Deep DivesOni PressNominee
2016Little RobotFirst Second BooksWinner
2016Anna Banana and the Chocolate Explosion and Alexis DormalFirst Second BooksNominee
2016'GuojingSchwartz & WadeNominee
2016SheHeWe and Meritxell BoschLerner Publishing Group/Graphic UniverseNominee
2016Written and Drawn by HenriettaToon BooksNominee
2017Narwhal: Unicorn of the SeaTundra BooksWinner
2017Ape and Armadillo Take Over the WorldToon BooksNominee
2017Burt's Way HomeKoyama PressNominee
2017'Abrams BooksNominee
2017I'm Grumpy and Matthew HolmRandom HouseNominee
2018Good Night, PlanetLiniersToon BooksWinner
2018Adele in Sand Land, trans. by Skeeter Grant and Françoise MoulyToon BooksNominee
2018Arthur and the Golden RopeFlying Eye Books/Nobrow PressNominee
2018EggGreenwillow BooksNominee
2018Little Tails in the Savannah and Federico Bertolucci, trans. by Mike KennedyLion Forge Comics/Magnetic PressNominee
2019Johnny Boo and the Ice Cream ComputerTop Shelf Productions/IDW PublishingWinner
2019PetalsKaBOOM!Nominee
2019Peter & Ernesto: A Tale of Two SlothsFirst Second BooksNominee
2019This is a Taco! and Josh ShipleyCubHouse/Lion Forge ComicsNominee
2019Tiger vs. Nightmare!First Second BooksNominee
2020Comics: Easy as ABCToon BooksWinner
2020Kitten Construction Company: A Bridge Too FurFirst Second Books/Macmillan PublishersNominee
2020'Hyperion BooksNominee
2020Toon BooksNominee
2020¡Vamos! Let’s Go to the MarketVersify/Houghton Mifflin HarcourtNominee
2020Who Wet My Pants? and Zachariah OhoraLittle, BrownNominee
2021Our Little KitchenAbrams Books for Young ReadersWinner
2021 and Joe Todd-StantonArchaia Entertainment/Boom! StudiosNominee
2021Cat Kid Comic ClubScholastic GraphixNominee
2021Donut Feed the SquirrelsRandom House Graphic/Random House Children's BooksNominee
2021KodiTop Shelf ProductionsNominee
2021Lift and Dan SantatLittle, Brown Young ReadersNominee
2022Chibi Usagi: Attack of the Heebie ChibisIDW PublishingWinner
2022Join the Crow Crowd!HarperAlleyNominee
2022I Am Oprah Winfrey and Christopher EliopoulosDial Books for Young ReadersNominee
2022Monster FriendsRandom House GraphicNominee
2022Tiny Tales: Shell QuestHarperAlleyNominee
2023Beneath The Trees: A Fine SummerDavMagnetic PressNominee
2023Fox + Chick: Up and Down: and Other StoriesChronicle BooksNominee
2023Grumpy Monkey Who Threw That? and Max LangRandom House StudioNominee
2023Hey, Bruce!: An Interactive BookDisney/HyperionNominee
2023Union Square KidsNominee