| Picture Book Category Nominees, 2000-2001 | |
| TITLE | AUTHOR |
| Cowboy Dreams:Sleep Tight, Little Buckaroo | Kathi Appelt |
| Parts! | Tedd Arnold |
| When Sophie Gets Angry—Really, Really Angry | Molly Bang |
| Wolf! | Becky Bloom |
| Sody Salleratus | Aubrey Davis |
| Bark, George | Jules Feiffer |
| Little Dog Poems | Kristine O'Connell George |
| Hey, Little Ant | Phillip and Hannah Hoose |
| A South African Night | Rachel Isadora |
| I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie | Alison Jackson |
| No Such Thing | Jackie French Koller |
| Hooway for Wodney Wat | Helen Lester |
| Mouse Mess | Linnea Riley |
| Mama Provi and the Pot of Rice | Sylvia Rosa-Casanova |
| Cook-A-Doodle-Doo | Janet Stevens |
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| Junior Book Category Nominees, 2000-2001 | |
| TITLE | AUTHOR |
| Lou Gehrig | David Adler |
| Ragweed | Avi |
| The Summer My Father Was 10 | Pat Brisson |
| Tornado | Betsy Byars |
| Ramona's World | Beverly Cleary |
| The Landry News | Andrew Clements |
| Bunnicula Strikes Again | James Howe |
| Beautiful Warrior | Emily McCully |
| William the Curious: Knight of the Water Lilies | Charles Santore |
| Lizzie Logan, Second Banana | Eileen Spinelli |
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