Lisbeth and the Littering Ladybugs Receives Prestigious Book Award

Award-Winning Kids’ Book | 2025 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards Honoree

With so many wonderful children’s books published each year, we are both thrilled and humbled to share that Lisbeth and the Littering Ladybugs received Second Place in the New Author, Fiction category for the 2025 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards. This recognition celebrates creativity, heart, and storytelling that resonates with young readers.

About the Purple Dragonfly Book Awards

The Purple Dragonfly Book Award Contest is a respected, worldwide competition founded in 2009 to recognize excellence in children’s literature. Featuring 57 categories, the awards celebrate books that are original, innovative, and creative in both content and design. The award honors accomplished authors while also spotlighting up-and-coming, newly published works, helping outstanding stories reach families, educators, and young readers around the globe.

About the BooK

Lisbeth and the Littering Ladybugs is a multi-award-winning kids’ book that combines playful storytelling with an important message about kindness, responsibility, and cleaning up life’s little messes.

Lisbeth, a lively six-year-old, wakes up one morning to find an unexpected mess in her hair. Her grandmother tells a playful, enchanting story about a troupe of mischievous ladybugs who host a grand gala in Lisbeth’s hair each night. But when the ladybugs leave a mess behind, Lisbeth learns an important lesson: sometimes we clean up not because we made the mess, but because it’s the right thing to do.

Filled with dreamy, imaginative illustrations by artist Maya Penzlik and a touch of fairy-tale magic, this charming story teaches young readers about shared responsibility, kindness, and empathy in a delightful way that sparks both laughter and reflection

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