Published by Knopf Young Readers, The Cardboard Kingdom is subtly unified group of vignettes that take place in one neighborhood over a summer filled with nuanced portraits of imaginative youngsters.
Previous winners of the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Kids Comics include Hilda and the Black Hound by Luke Pearson, Awkward by Svetlana Chmakova, Ghosts by Raina Telegemeier, and The Tea Dragon Society by Katie O’Neill.