Nutmeg Award Winners

2024 Nutmeg Book Award Elementary Winner

Book cover of the 2024 Nutmeg Elementary winner. A gray dog is running upright away from a cartoon dinosaur, the background is shades of blue and white

Mellybean and the Giant Monster, written & illustrated by Mike White

2025 Nutmeg Book Award Elementary Nominees Grades 2-3

A photo collage of all fifteen Elementary Nutmeg Award nominee covers on a dark blue background. The book covers include the title of the book, and author and illustrated.

2024 Nutmeg Book Award Intermediate Winner

Scritch Scratch by Lindsay Currie

2025 Nutmeg Book Award Intermediate Nominees Grades 4 - 6

A Rover's Story by Jasmine Warga

Cookies & Milk by Shawn Amos, art by Robert Paul

Invisible by Christina Diaz Gonzalez, art by Gabriela Epstein

Wayward Creatures by Dayna Lorentz

The Canyon's Edge by Dusti Bowling

Chester Keene Cracks the Code by Kekla Magoon

Falling Short by Ernesto Cisneros

Anybody Here Seen Frenchie? by Leslie Connor

Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good by Louie Stowell

Tumble by Celia C. Perez