Last year's winners are:  I'm trying to love spiders (picture book), Ellie's story: A dog's purpose novel (chapter book) and Sunny Side Up (graphic novel).

Here is quick overview of the BES nominees.

   
Black-Eyed Susan Chapter Books:
Brown, Peter – The Wild Robot
Creech, Sharon – Moo
Fantaskey, Beth – Isabel Feeney, Star Reporter
Gibbs, Stuart – Space Case: A Moon Base Alpha Novel
Grimes, Nikki – Garvey’s Choice
Hilton, Marilyn – Full Cicada Moon
Jones, Kelly – Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer
Pennypacker, Sara – Pax
Rhodes, Jewell Parker – Towers Falling
Weeks, Sarah and Gita Varadarajan – Save Me a Seat  
 
Black-Eyed Susan Graphic Novels: 
Colossal, Eric – Rutabaga, the Adventure Chef 1
Flores, Madeleine – Help Us! Great Warrior
Hatke, Ben – Mighty Jack: Book One
Pittman, Eddie – Red’s Planet
Reed, M. K. – Dinosaurs: Fossils and Feathers
Riess, Natalie – Space Battle Lunchtime: Lights, Camera, Snacktion
Reynolds, Aaron – Caveboy Dave: More Scrawny Than Brawny
Telgemeier, Raina – Ghosts
Weing, Drew – The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo
Winick, Judd – Hilo: Saving the Whole Wide World
 
Black-Eyed Susan Picture Books:  
Barton, Chris – Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
Campoy, F. Isabel – Maybe Something Beautiful
Ferry, Beth – Land Shark
Higgins, Ryan – Mother Bruce
Hood, Susan – Ada’s Violin: the Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay
Levis, Caron – Ida, always
Levy, Debbie – I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
Litchfield, David – The Bear and the Piano
Macy, Sue – Miss Mary Reporting: the True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber
Nolan, Janet – Seven and a Half Tons of Steel
Portis, Antoinette – Best Frints in the Whole Universe
Raczka, Bob – Wet Cement: a Mix of Concrete Poems
Santat, Dan – Are We There Yet?
Smith, Alex – Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion
Wenzel, Brendan – They All Saw a Cat