3x3 Picture Book Show Winners Announced

We’re pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Picture Book Show. Once again we had entries from all over the globe with four out of seven medalists from outside the United States.

¶ Just to get in the show entrants must receive a majority of votes from our five judges, we originally had six judges but out Australian judge was on a sabbatical and couldn't be reached by email for our judging. 

¶ To receive a medal an entry must receive at five judge’s votes. Medals are determined by the number of judges who select a particular piece as their favorite, the more judges who select a particular piece the higher the medal i.e. Best of Show, Gold, Silver and Bronze. Judges were not permitted to vote for their own work. 

¶ Winners will appear in our first 3x3 hardcover annual coming out later this year. A softcover version of the annual will appear on newsstands worldwide, another example on how 3x3 continues to promote the art of illustration.

Medalists

Best of Show -  Doron Sohari, Israel

Gold - Marion Arbona, Canada

Silver -  Doug Salati 

Bronze - 

Maria Carluccio

Nina Cuneo, Italy

T. Lively Fluharty 

Klaas Verplancke, Belgium

Judges

Ann Bobco, Executive Art Director, Atheneum Books for Young Readers a part of Simon & Schuster

Rachael Cole, Art Director, Schwartz &Wade

Belén Freijeiro, Publisher, OQO Books, Spain

Judith Drews, Illustrator, Germany

Julien Chung, Illustrator, Canada

Thank you to our judges. Congratulations to all our winners:

Best of Show 

Doron Sohari, Children’s Book Unpublished

Gold 

Marion Arbona, Children’s Illustration Unpublished

Silver 

Doug Salati, Children’s Book Unpublished

Bronze 

Maria Carluccio, Children’s Book Unpublished

Nina Cuneo, Children’s Illustration Unpublished

T. Lively Fluharty, Children’s Book Published

Klaas Verplancke, Children’s Book Published

Distinguished Merit 

Marion Arbona, Children’s Illustration Published

Aljoscha Blau, Children’s Book Published

Valeria Petrone, Editorial

Jack Wang and Holman Wang, Children’s Book Published

Merit 

Rafael Alvarez, Children’s Illustration Published

Marion Arbona, Children’s Illustration Unpublished

Valeria Docampo, Children’s Book Published

Audrey Niffenegger, Young Adult

Kristina Brasseler, Children’s Book Published

Julien Castanié, Children’s Book Unpublished

Hudson Christie, Children’s Book Unpublished

Jamey Christoph, Children’s Book Published

Christopher Corr, Children’s Book Published

Teresa Cortez, Children’s Book Published

Owen Davey, Children’s Book Published

Byron Eggenschwiler, Educational

Louise French, Children’s Book Unpublished

Susan Gal, Children’s Illustration Unpublished*

Sara Ogilvie, Children’s Illustration Published

Aya Gordon-Noy, Children’s Book Published

Aad Goudappel, Children’s Book Unpublished

Stephanie Graegin, Children’s Book Published

Lianne Harrison, Book Covers 

Tom Jellett, Book Covers 

Tom Jellett, Children’s Book Published

Angela Keoghan, Editorial

Alistar Khabuliani, Young Adult

Vitali Konstantinov, Children’s Book Published

Dahye Lee, Children’s Book Unpublished

Steven Lenton, Children’s Book Published

So Yeon Lim, Editorial

Simone Massoni, Children’s Book Published

Scott Nash, Young Adult

Robert Neubecker, Children’s Book Published

Robert Neubecker, Book Covers 

Andrea Offermann, Book Covers 

Hsinping Pan, Book Covers 

Valeria Petrone, Children’s Illustration Published

Valeria Petrone, Miscellaneous

Valeria Petrone, Children’s Book Published

Valeria Petrone, Editorial

David Pintor, Miscellaneous

Marco Piunti, Children’s Illustration Unpublished

Natalie Pudalov, Children’s Book Published

Anna Raff, Children’s Book Published

Kelly Murphy, Children’s Book Published

Zack Rock, Children’s Book Unpublished

Maria Isabel Roxas, Miscellaneous

Doug Salati, Children’s Illustration Unpublished

Maral Sassouni, Children’s Book Unpublished

Eunhye Seo, Children’s Illustration Unpublished

Natalie Waksman Shenker, Children’s Book Published

Studio Tipi, Editorial

Yoko Tanaka, Children’s Illustration Published

Francois Thisdale, Children’s Book Unpublished

Niv Tishbi, Children’s Book Unpublished

Emma Vakarélova, Book Covers 

Alicia Varela, Children’s Book Published

João Vaz de Carvalho, Children's Book Published*

Estrella Vega, Educational

Constanze Von Kitzing, Children’s Illustration Published

Katrin Wiehle, Children’s Book Published

Mike Wimmer, Children’s Book Published

Stephanie Wunderlich, Children’s Illustration Published

Chia-Chi Yu, Young Adult

Pamela Zagarenski, Children’s Book Published

Debra Ziss, Children’s Book Unpublished

* denotes multiple pieces in category

Cover Illustration for digital 3x3 Picture Book Annual, Simone Massoni