This Award recognizes promising new talent in children’s book illustration. Submissions for this award are processed through the Original Art Show. To be eligible, an artist may have no more than three books published in the U.S & The artist must not have won the award before. The award specifically focuses on children’s book illustration.

It’s the responsibility of those submitting work to the Original Art Show to indicate if an illustrator is eligible for this award. Even with a larger body of published work, artists can still be eligible if they have no more than three published children’s books. Eligibility extends to artists with work published outside the children’s book field.