The best young listeners audiobooks, by award record: every Audie Young Listeners winner
Looking for a young listeners audiobook that's actually worth a credit? This is the complete record of the Audie Award's Young Listeners category — 25 winners from 2001 to 2026, the audiobook industry's own pick for the best young listeners production of each year. The most recent winner is Secrets of the Purple Pearl by Kate McKinnon, narrated by Kate McKinnon, Emily Lynne.
| Year | Narrator | Audiobook | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Kate McKinnon, Emily Lynne | Secrets of the Purple Pearl | Kate McKinnon |
| 2025 | Fred Berman | Nothing: John Cage and 4'33" | Nicholas Day |
| 2024 | Fairuza Balk, Jon Klassen | The Skull | Jon Klassen |
| 2023 | Tyler Merritt | A Door Made for Me | Tyler Merritt |
| 2022 | Jaime Lincoln Smith, Tony Medina | I and I Bob Marley | Tony Medina |
| 2021 | Shayna Small, Dion Graham | The Overground Railroad | Lesa Cline-Ransome |
| 2020 | Mo Willems | The Pigeon HAS to Go to School! | Mo Willems |
| 2018 | Dion Graham | Trombone Shorty | Troy Andrews |
| 2017 | Dion Graham, William Jackson Harper, Zainab Jah, January LaVoy, Robin Miles, Lizan Mitchell, Jonathan Earl Peck, Carter Woodson Redwood | 28 Days: Moments in Black History That Changed the World | Charles R. Smith, Jr. |
| 2016 | Jack Black | Little Shop of Monsters | R. L. Stine and Marc Brown |
| 2015 | Christopher Myers, Dion Graham | H.O.R.S.E.: A Game of Basketball and Imagination | Christopher Myers |
| 2014 | Mutiyat Ade-Salu | Hooray for Anna Hibiscus! | Atinuke |
| 2013 | Adjoa Andoh | The Great Cake Mystery | Alexander McCall Smith |
| 2012 | George Guidall | Django, World's Greatest Jazz Guitarist | Bonnie Christensen |
| 2011 | James D-Train Williams | This Jazz Man | Karen Ehrhardt |
| 2010 | Barbara Rosenblat | Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken | Kate DiCamillo |
| 2009 | Jim Dale | James Herriot's Treasury for Children | James Herriot |
| 2008 | Stephen Fry | More About Paddington | Michael Bond |
| 2007 | Mo Willems, Cher, Trixie Willems | Knuffle Bunny | Mo Willems |
| 2006 | Michael McKean, Diana Canova, David de Vries, full cast | Arnie the Doughnut | Laurie Keller |
| 2005 | Mordicai Gerstein | What Charlie Heard | Mordicai Gerstein |
| 2004 | Luis Guzman | Chato and the Party Animals | Gary Soto |
| 2003 | Charles Turner | The Blues of Flats Brown | Walter Dean Myers |
| 2002 | Jenny Agutter | Ballet Stories | David Angus |
| 2001 | Martin Jarvis | Ouch! | Natalie Babbitt |
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Most-awarded young listeners narrators
Dion Graham (4 wins) · Mo Willems (2 wins).
Most-awarded young listeners authors
Mo Willems (2 wins).
See also: Audiobook of the Year · Best Narrator winners · Grammy audiobook winners.