Nebraska Golden Sower Award--Nominee Titles 2024-2025
This nominee list is developed by a group of adult volunteers representing teachers and librarians across Nebraska. Local library or
school officials are responsible for selecting books from these lists they feel are appropriate for the needs and interests of their patrons or students. Voting eligibility requires student readers to have read or heard a minimum of four of the current
nominees from a category in which they will be voting: Little Bluestem and Honeybee.
2024-2025 Little Bluestem Nominees
Abdul’s Story by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, illustrated by Tiffany Rose.
Agatha May and the Anglerfish by Nora Morrison and Jessie Ann Foley, illustrated by Mika Song.
Creepy Crayon by Aaron Reynolds, illustrated by Peter Brown.
Every Dog in the Neighborhood by Phillip C. Stead, illustrated by Matthew Cordell
How Dinosaurs Went Extinct: A Safety Guide by Ame Dyckman, illustrated by Jennifer Harney
I’m a Unicorn by Helen Yoon
More than Peach by Bellen Woodard, illustrated by Fanny Liem
My Parents Won’t Stop Talking by Emma Hunsinger and Tillie Walden
Poopsie Gets Lost by Hannah E. Harrison
We Don’t Lose Our Class Goldfish by Ryan T. Higgins
Longfellow Golden Sower Book Party Contest 2024-2025
If a 4th or 5th-grade student reads,
at least 4 of the Golden Sowers books.
They get to attend the Golden Sower Party.
2024-2025 Honeybee Nominees
Bunnicula: The Graphic Novel by James Howe and Andrew Donkin
Controlled Burn by Erin Soderberg Downing
Cress Watercress by Gregory Maguire, illustrated by David Litchfield
Finally Seen by Kelly Yang
Invisible by Christina Diaz Gonzales, illustrated by Gabriela Epstein
The Midnight Children by Dan Gemeinhart
Odder by Katherine Applegate, illustrated by Charles Santoso
A Rover’s Story by Jasmine Warga
Wayward Creatures by Dayna Lorentz
The Witchlings by Claribel A. Ortega
