Nominations are now open for the 2026 Beehive Book Award Season
In order to create a nomination pool that will then be vetted and narrowed down for a voting master list, nominations are open from January 1 to March 1 yearly. To submit nominations, click on the link below.
Beehive Book Award Nomination Forms
- Anyone in the State of Utah, including children and teens, librarians, teachers, parents, or other community members, may submit nominations.
- Teachers and librarians are particularly encouraged to nominate books.
- Nominators should have read the book in its entirety.
- Individuals may nominate no more than 15 books in each division.
- Anonymous nominations will not be accepted. Nominators must submit a name with the nominations, however, children and teens will not be asked to give their whole name, only their first names.
- Nominations will not be accepted from authors for their own works, publishers, or other creators.
Nomination criteria
- Nominated titles must have been published within 3 years of the award year (for example, for the 2026 award nominees must have a copyright date between 2023 and 2025)
- Nominations must currently be in print (either hardback or paperback) and readily available in the United States.
- Nominations may include any genre or format (i.e., fiction, nonfiction/informational, picture book, poetry, ebooks, audiobooks, or graphic novel).
- Nominations that have been positively reviewed in one or more major library review journals will be given precedence.
- Submissions of books that are sequels or part of a series may be considered, but they will be evaluated for their ability to exist independently of the entire series.
- Nominated titles will be primarily judged on popularity with readers. So, nominations should be those books most often read or requested by children, with strong appeal for the age group for which the nomination is made or be books that children and teens will read for their own pleasure and/or inspiration.
- Other considerations for nominations will include literary value, reading enjoyment, reading level, interest level, genre representation, gender representation, racial diversity, diversity of social, political, economic, or religious viewpoints, regional considerations, effectiveness of expression, and imagination.
- The primary consideration when placing a nomination in a particular division will be whether the nominee is age appropriate for that division’s age range.
Nomination exclusions
Books that meet any of the following criteria will not be considered:
- Books awarded with either the Newbery or Caldecott Medals
- The book may not be a textbook, anthology or collection (with the exception of short stories and poetry), formula fiction, holiday book, toy, puzzle, or pop-up.