Oregon Spirit Book Awards 2022
Picture Books
Winner: Pig and Horse and the Something Scary, by Zoey Abbott
Honor: Counting to Bananas: A Mostly Rhyming Fruit Book, by Carrie Tillotson and Estrela Lourenço (illustrator)
Honor: Brave Every Day, by Trudy Ludwig and Patrice Barton (illustrator)
Middle Grade
Winner: Dream, Annie, Dream, by Waka T. Brown
Honor: Hunters of the Lost City, by Kali Wallace
Honor: Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence, by Sonja Thomas
Young Adult
Winner: A Wilderness of Stars, by Shea Ernshaw
Graphic
Winner: Growing Pangs, by Kathryn Ormsbee and Molly Brooks (illustrator)
Honor: Tales of a Seventh-Grade Lizard Boy, by Jonathan Hill
Nonfiction/Informational Text
Winner: The Deadliest Fires Then and Now, by Deborah Hopkinson
Honor: Maker Comics: Design a Game! by Bree Wolf (author/illustrator) and Jesse Fuchs (author)
Honor: A History of Underwear with Professor Chicken, by Hannah Holt and Korwin Briggs (illustrator)
Debut
Winner: Little Monarchs, by Jonathan Case