Marion Brunet is a French author who writes about young people’s revolt and solidarity against a backdrop of climate crisis and social vulnerability. From Frangine to Dans le désordre, La gueule du loup, Plein gris, and Ilos, her work moves between contemporary anxiety and mythic resonance, and is praised for its clear, luminous prose.

She captures the tensions of the present in lucid language, letting anger, friendship, and the beauty of nature emerge as forces of resistance within a dark reality.

The Indigenous Literacy Foundation works with First Nations communities in Australia to create access to culturally relevant books through book distribution, translation, read-aloud programs, and community publishing. Its commitment to treating reading as a right is central to the ALMA 2024 award.

ILF does more than deliver books: it helps language and stories grow into community strengths, expanding reading opportunities for First Nations children through community-led work.

Speak is a YA novel about a girl who becomes isolated at the start of high school and has to confront her own experience while living with the memory of sexual assault and a silence that has taken hold of her. Its precise psychological portrait and restrained narration make trauma, loneliness, and recovery feel immediate and unforgettable.

Told from one girl’s point of view, the novel follows the long road to breaking silence and reclaiming a voice while carrying the memory of pain.

Eva Lindström was recognized for a long career as a picture-book artist and illustrator, and for a way of finding strangeness inside everyday life. ALMA honors her whole body of work rather than a single title.

The award recognizes an entire picture-book world, not a single book.

He has published many children's and YA works that are allegorical and have a high level of fantasy. The book was praised for depicting growth and moral issues through a richly told adventure story and deep psychological depictions, and has been translated internationally and widely read.

He has published many children's and YA works that are allegorical and have a high level of fantasy.

A warm story about fluffy "cloud bread". Depicts family, creativity, and the joy of sharing with soft shapes and colors. This work, which incorporates three-dimensional figurative expression into a picture book, is highly praised for its visual appeal and is widely known internationally.

A warm story about fluffy "cloud bread".

This award recognizes the author's overall body of work rather than a single book. Across representative works, the writing is praised for its child-centered perspective and the force of language.

The award is given not to a single title, but to the author's representative body of work.

Jacqueline Woodson's verse memoir recounts her childhood in South Carolina and New York. In linked free-verse poems, it traces growing up as a Black girl during the civil rights era, family memory, and the path by which language becomes the ground of a writer's life.

Between two homes, a girl finds a place for herself in language.

A novel by Wolf Erlbruch that uses Duck, Death and the Tulip to explore children's fiction and relationships, with history in view.

A story where children's fiction meets relationships.

A recognition of Isol’s picture-book work and design, referring to her body of work rather than a single standalone book.

It honors a body of picture-book work rather than one volume.

A children’s novel in which Thomas, living under an abusive father, finds hope through imagination, faith, and everyday miracles.

Imagination becomes a force against family violence.

A wordless graphic narrative that uses detailed illustrations alone to tell an immigrant’s story of loneliness, adaptation, and hard-won connection.

A wordless masterpiece about migration and belonging.

Her picture-book work was honored for opening a gentle space between imagination and reality. The achievement lies as much in emotional tone as in line and form.

Not one book, but an entire picture-book world, is being honored.

An award honoring local education work and reading outreach.

It highlights work that sustains learning in local communities.

Set in a rural community during the Great Depression, the novel follows a girl growing up amid family poverty and loneliness. Its restrained prose lets imagination and pain move together, highlighting the complexity of a child’s inner life.

A quiet voice brings a child’s world in poverty into sharp focus.

Set in a rural community during the Great Depression, the novel follows a girl growing up amid family poverty and loneliness. Its restrained prose lets imagination and pain move together, highlighting the complexity of a child’s inner life.

A quiet voice brings a child’s world in poverty into sharp focus.

A beloved children’s novel about imagination and friendship carrying children through loss. Through the imagined kingdom of Terabithia, it gently holds both grief and growth at once.

Terabithia is also a kingdom built to hold grief.

Lyra steps into the northern world and learns the meaning of freedom and courage through friendship, danger, and loss. The novel blends adventure with fantasy on a grand scale.

A journey north changes the way the world is seen.

This entry records Astrid Lindgren’s picture-book oeuvre as a body of work rather than a single volume, focusing on its enduring influence.

A body of picture-book works that continues to be read across generations.

A small yellow bag becomes the place where three wishes are hidden, as the story follows a child searching for her own voice and place in the world. Imagination enlarges the struggle to define the self.

A yellow bag becomes a place to keep the wishes that cannot yet be spoken.

Max runs away in a wolf suit and reaches the island of the wild things, where he becomes their king. The brief story turns imagination, loneliness, and belonging into a vivid picture-book fable.

Max crosses over to the land of the wild things.

A body of children's literature that combines humor and sharpness while viewing family and society through a child's perspective. It is especially known for stories about poverty, resistance to authority, and a clear respect for children's agency.

Recorded as a representative body of children's literature.