The following list represents only some of the many awards and honors that are presented to Black children’s authors and illustrators.

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The Coretta Scott King Book Awards

Carter G Woodson Book Awards

The Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children’s Literature

The Caldecott Medal

Ezra Jack Keats Book Awards

The John Newbery Medal

NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children

NCTE Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal

Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction

The Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production

Children’s Literature Legacy Award

ALA  Notable Children’s Books

The Michael L. Printz Awards

The Margaret A. Edwards Award

The YALSA Alex Awards

Golden Kite Award

The Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards

eLit Awards

NAACP Image Awards

National Book Award for Young People’s Literature

The Charlotte Zolotow Award


The Coretta Scott King Book Awards

2021

Author

Jacqueline Woodson – Before the Ever After

Illustrator

Frank Morrison – R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin(written by Carole Boston Weatherford, published by Atheneum BYR)

Author Honors

Mildred D. Taylor – All the Days Past, All the Days to Come  

Kacen Callender – King and the Dragonflies   

Evette Dionne – Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box

Illustrator Honors

Kaylani Juanita – Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration (written by Samara Cole Doyon, published by Tilbury House)

Cozbi A. Cabrera – Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks (written by Suzanne Slade, published by Abrams BYR)

Cozbi A. Cabrera – Me and Mama (written by Cozbi A. Cabrera, published by Denene Millner/Simon & Schuster BYR)

John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Author)

Tracy Deonn – Legendborn

Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement

Dorothy L. Guthrie

2020

Author

Jerry Craft – New Kid

Illustrator

Kadir Nelson – The Undefeated

Author Honors

Jason Reynolds – Look Both Ways

Junauda Petrus – The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

Kwame Mbalia – Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky

Illustrator Honors

James E. Ransome – The Bell Rang

Ashley Bryan – Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace

Vashti Harrison – Sulwe

John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Author)

Alicia D. Williams – Genesis Begins Again

John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Illustrator)

April Harrison – What Is Given from the Heart

Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement

Mildred D. Taylor

2019

Author

Claire Hartfield – A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919

Illustrator

Ekua Holmes – The Stuff of Stars

Author Honors

Lesa Cline-Ransome – Finding Langston

Varian Johnson – The Parker Inheritance

Kekla Magoon – The Season of Styx Malone

Illustrator Honors

Laura Freeman – Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

Frank Morrison – Let the Children March 

R. Gregory Christie  – Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968

John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Author)

Tiffany D. Jackon – Monday’s Not Coming

John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Illustrator)

Oge Mora – Thank You, Omu

Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement

Dr. Pauletta Bracy

2018

Author

Renée Watson – Piecing Me Together

Illustrator

Ekua Holmes – Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets

Author Honors

Derrick Barnes – Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut

Jason Reynolds – Long Way Down

Angie Thomas – The Hate U Give

Illustrator Honors

Gordon C. James – Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut

James E. Ransome – Before She Was Harriet: The Story of Harriet Tubman

John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Author)

David Barclay Moore – The Stars Beneath Our Feet

John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Illustrator)

Charly Palmer – Mama Africa! How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song

Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement

Eloise Greenfield

2017

Author

John Lewis & Andrew Aydin – March: Book Three

Illustrator

Javaka Steptoe – Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

Author Honors

Jason Reynolds – As Brave As You

Ashley Bryan – Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan

Illustrator Honors

Gregory Christie – Freedom in Congo Square

Ashley Bryan – Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan

Jerry Pinkney – In Plain Sight

John Steptoe Award for New Talent

Nicola Yoon – The Sun Is Also a Star

Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement

Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop

2016

Author

Rita Williams-Garcia – Gone Crazy in Alabama

Illustrator

Bryan Collier – Trombone Shorty

Author Honors

Jason Reynolds/Brendan Kiely – All American Boys

Jason Reynolds – The Boy in the Black Suit

Ilyasah Shabazz/Kekla Magoon – X: A Novel

Illustrator Honors

R. Gregory Christie – The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore

Christian Robinson – Last Stop on Market Street

John Steptoe Award for New Talent

Ronald L. Smith, author – Hoodoo

Ekua Holmes, illustrator – Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement

Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement

Jerry Pinkney

2015

Author

Jacqueline Woodson – brown girl dreaming

Illustrator

Christopher Myers – Firebird

Author Honors

Kwame Alexander – The Crossover

Marilyn Nelson – How I Discovered Poetry

Kekla Magoon – How It Went Down

Illustrator Honors

Christian Robinson – Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker

Frank Morrison – Little Melba and Her Big Trombone

John Steptoe Award for New Talent

Jason Reynolds – When I Was the Greatest

2014

Author

Rita Williams-Garcia – P.S. Be Eleven

Illustrator

Bryan Collier – Knock Knock: My Dad’s Dream for Me

John Steptoe Award for New Talent

Theodore Taylor III – When the Beat was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop

Author Honors

John Lewis & Andrew Aydin – March: Book One

Walter Dean Myers – Darius & Twig

Nikki Grimes – Words with Wings

Illustrator Honor

Kadir Nelson – Nelson Mandela

2013

Author

Andrea Davis Pinkney – Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America

Illustrator

Bryan Collier – I, Too, Am America

Author Honors

Jacqueline Woodson – Each Kindness

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson – No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Micheaux

Illustrator Honors

Daniel Minter – Ellen’s Broom

Christopher Myers – H. O. R. S. E.

Kadir Nelson – I Have a Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr

John Steptoe Award for New Talent

No award presented

2012

Author

Kadir Nelson – Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans

Illustrator

Shane W. Evans – Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom

Author Honors

Eloise Greenfield – The Great Migration: Journey to the North

Patricia C. McKissack – Never Forgotten

Illustrator Honor

Kadir Nelson – Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans

John Steptoe Award for New Talent

No award presented

Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement

Ashley Bryan, storyteller, artist, author, poet, and musician

2011

Author

Rita Williams Garcia – One Crazy Summer

Illustrator

Bryan Collier – Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave

Author Honors

Walter Dean Myers – Lockdown

Jewell Parker Rhodes – Ninth Ward

G. Neri – Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty

Illustrator Honor

Javaka Steptoe – Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix

John Steptoe Award for New Talent

Victoria Bond and T. R. Simon, authors – Zora and Me

Sonia Lynn Sadler, illustrator – Seeds of Change

2010

Author

Vaunda  Micheaux Nelson – Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal

Illustrator

Charles R. Smith, Jr. – My People

Author Honor

Tanita S. Davis – Mare’s War

Illustrator Honor

E.B. Lewis – The Negro Speaks of Rivers

John Steptoe Award for New Talent

Kekla Magoon, author – The Rock and the River

Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement (inaugural year)

Walter Dean Myers

2009

Author

Kadir Nelson – We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball

Illustrator

Floyd Cooper – The Blacker the Berry

Author Honors

Hope Anita Smith – Keeping the Night Watch

Joyce Carol Thomas – The Blacker the Berry

Carole Boston Weatherford – Becoming Billie Holiday

Illustrator Honors

Kadir Nelson – We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball

Jerry Pinkney – The Moon Over Star

Sean Qualls – Before John Was a Jazz Giant

John Steptoe Award for New Talent

Shadra Strickland, illustrator – Bird

2008

Author

Christopher Paul Curtis – Elijah of Buxton

Illustrator

Ashley Bryan – Let it Shine

Author Honors

Sharon M. Draper – November Blues

Charles R. Smith, Jr. – Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali

Illustrator Honors

Nancy Devard – The Secret Olivia Told Me

Leo & Diane Dillon – Jazz on a Saturday Night

John Steptoe Award for New Talent

Sundee T. Frazier, author – Brendan Buckley’s Universe and Everything in It

2007

Author

Sharon Draper – Copper Sun

Illustrator

Kadir Nelson – Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom

Author Honor

Nikki Grimes – The Road to Paris

Illustrator Honors

Christopher Myers – Jazz 

Benny Andrews – Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes

John Steptoe Award for New Talent

Traci L. Jones, author – Standing Against the Wind

2006

Author

Julius Lester – Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue

Illustrator

Bryan Collier – Rosa

Author Honors

Tonya Bolden – Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl

Nikki Grimes – Dark Sons

Marilyn Nelson – A Wreath for Emmett Till

Illustrator Honors

R. Gregory Christie – Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan

John Steptoe Award for New Talent

Jimie Adoff, author – Jimi & Me

2005                                           

Author

Toni Morrison – Remember: The Journey to School Integration

Illustrator

Kadir A. Nelson – Ellington Was Not a Street

Author Honors

Shelia P. Moses – The Legend of Buddy Bush

Sharon G. Flake – Who Am I without Him?: Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives

Marilyn Nelson – Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem

Illustrator Honors

Jerry Pinkney – God Bless the Child

Leo & Diane Dillon – The People Could Fly: The Picture Book

John Steptoe Award for New Talent

Barbara Hathaway, author – Missy Violet and Me

Frank Morrison, illustrator –Jazzy Miz Mozetta

2004

Author

Angela Johnson – The First Part Last

Illustrator

Ashley Bryan Beautiful Blackbird

Author Honors

Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack – Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States

Jacqueline Woodson – Locomotion

Sharon Draper – The Battle of Jericho

Illustrator Honors

Colin Bootman – Almost to Freedom

Kadir Nelson – Thunder Rose

John Steptoe Award for New Talent

Hope Anita Smith, author – The Way a Door Closes

2003

Author

Nikki Grimes – Bronx Masquerade

Illustrator

B. Lewis – Talkin’ about Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman

Author Honors

Brenda Woods – The Red Rose Box

Nikki Grimes – Talkin’ about Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman

Illustrator Honors

Leo and Diane Dillon – Rap a Tap Tap: Here’s Bojangles

Bryan Collier – Visiting Langston

John Steptoe Award for New Talent

Janet McDonald, author – Chill Wind

Randy DuBurke, author/illustrator – The Moon Ring

2002

Author

Mildred Taylor – The Land

Illustrator

Jerry Pinkney – Goin’ Someplace Special

Author Honors

Sharon G. Flake – Money-Hungry

Marilyn Nelson – Carver: A Life in Poems

Illustrator Honors

Bryan Collier – Martin’s Big Words

John Steptoe Award for New Talent

Jerome Lagarrigue, illustrator – Freedom Summer

2001

Author

Jacqueline Woodson – Miracle’s Boys

Illustrator

Bryan Collier – Uptown

Author Honor

Andrea Davis Pinkney – Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters

Illustrator Honors

Bryan Collier – Freedom River

R. Gregory Christie – Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth

E.B. Lewis – Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys

John Steptoe Award for New Talent

No award presented

2000

Author

Christopher Paul Curtis – Bud, Not Buddy

Illustrator

Brian Pinkney – In the Time of the Drums

Author Honors

Karen English – Francie

Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack – Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers

Walter Dean Myers – Monster

Illustrator Honors

B. Lewis – My Rows and Piles of Coins

Christopher Myers – Black Cat 

John Steptoe Award for New Talent

No award presented

1999

Author

Angela Johnson – Heaven

Illustrator

Michele Wood – I See the Rhythm

Author Honors

Nikki Grimes – Jazmin’s Notebook

Joyce Hansen & Gary McGowan – Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York’s African Burial Ground

Angela Johnson – The Other Side: Shorter Poems

Illustrator Honors

Floyd Cooper – I Have Heard of a Land

B. Lewis – The Bat Boy and His Violin

Brian Pinkney – Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra

John Steptoe Award for New Talent

Sharon Flake, author – The Skin I’m In

Eric Velasquez, illustrator – The Piano Man

1998

Author

Sharon M. Draper – Forged by Fire

Illustrator

Javaka Steptoe – In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers

Author Honors

James Haskins – Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement

Joyce Hansen – I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl

Illustrator Honors

Ashley Bryan – Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry

Christopher Myers – Harlem

Baba Wagué Diakité – The Hunterman and the Crocodile

John Steptoe Award for New Talent

No award presented

1997

Author

Walter Dean Myers – Slam

Illustrator

Jerry Pinkney – Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman

Author Honor

Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack – Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts

Illustrator Honors

R. Gregory Christie – The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children

Reynold Ruffins – Running the Road to ABC

Synthia Saint James – Neeny Coming, Neeny Going

John Steptoe Award for New Talent

Martha Southgate, author – Another Way to Dance

1996

Author

Virginia Hamilton – Her Stories

Illustrator

Tom Feelings – The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo

Author Honors

Christopher Paul Curtis – The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 

Rita Williams-Garcia – Like Sisters on the Homefront

Jacqueline Woodson – From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun

Illustrator Honors

Leo & Diane Dillon – Her Stories

Brian Pinkney – The Faithful Friend

John Steptoe Award for New Talent

No award presented

1995

Author

Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack – Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters

Illustrator

James Ransome – The Creation

Author Honors

Joyce Hansen – The Captive

Jacqueline Woodson – I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This 

Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack – Black Diamond: Story of the Negro Baseball League

Illustrator Honors

Terea Shaffer – The Singing Man

Floyd Cooper – Meet Danitra Brown

John Steptoe Award for New Talent (inaugural year)

Sharon Draper, author – Tears of a Tiger

1994

Author

Angela Johnson – Toning the Sweep

Illustrator

Tom Feelings – Soul Looks Back in Wonder

Author Honors

Joyce Carol Thomas – Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea

Walter Dean Myers – Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary

Illustrator Honors

Floyd Cooper – Brown Honey in Broom Wheat Tea

James Ransome – Uncle Jed’s Barbershop

1993

Author

Patricia C. McKissack – The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural

Illustrator

Kathleen Atkins Wilson – The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth

Author Honors

Mildred Pitts Walter – Mississippi Challenge

Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack – Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman?

Walter Dean Myers – Somewhere in the Darkness

Illustrator Honors

Wil Clay – Little Eight John

Brian Pinkney – Sukey and the Mermaid

Carole Byard – Working Cotton

1992

Author

Walter Dean Myers – Now is Your Time: The African American Struggle for Freedom

Illustrator

Faith Ringgold – Tar Beach

Author Honor

Eloise Greenfield – Night on Neighborhood Street

Illustrator Honors

Ashley Bryan – All Night, All Day: A Child’s First Book of African American Spirituals

Jan Spivey Gilchrist – Night on Neighborhood Street

1991

Author

Mildred D. Taylor – The Road to Memphis

Illustrator

Leo & Diane Dillon – Aida

Author Honors

James Haskins – Black Dance in America

Angela Johnson – When I Am Old with You

1990

Author

Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack – A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter

Illustrator

Jan Spivey Gilchrist – Nathaniel Talking

Author Honors

Eloise Greenfield – Nathaniel Talking

Virginia Hamilton – The Bells of Christmas

Lillie Patterson – Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Freedom Movement

Illustrator Honor

Jerry Pinkney – The Talking Eggs

1989

Author

Walter Dean Myers – Fallen Angels

Illustrator

Jerry Pinkney – Mirandy and Brother Wind

Author Honors

James Berry – A Thief in the Village and Other Stories

Virginia Hamilton – Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave 

Illustrator Honors

Amos Ferguson – Under the Sunday Tree

Pat Cummings – Storm in the Night

1988

Author

Mildred L. Taylor – The Friendship

Illustrator

John Steptoe – Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale

Author Honors

Alexis De Veaux – An Enchanted Hair Tale

Julius Lester – The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

Illustrator Honors

Ashley Bryan – What a Morning! The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals

Joe Sam – The Invisible Hunters: A Legend from the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua

1987

Author

Mildred Pitts Walter – Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World

Illustrator

Jerry Pinkney – Half a Moon and One Whole Star

Author Honors

Ashley Bryan – Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales

Joyce Hansen – Which Way Freedom? 

Illustrator Honors

Ashley Bryan – Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales

Pat Cummings – C.L.O.U.D.S.

1986

Author

Virginia Hamilton – The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales 

Illustrator

Jerry Pinkney – The Patchwork Quilt

Author Honors

Virginia Hamilton – Junius Over Far

Mildred Pitts Walter – Trouble’s Child

Illustrator Honor

Leo & Diane Dillon – The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales

1985

Author

Walter Dean Myers – Motown and Didi

Illustrator

No award presented

Author Honors

Candy Dawson Boyd – Circle of Gold

Virginia Hamilton – A Little Love

1984

Author

Lucille Clifton – Everett Anderson’s Goodbye

Illustrator

Pat Cummings – My Mama Needs Me

Author Honors

Virginia Hamilton – The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl

James Haskins – Lena Horne

Joyce Carol Thomas – Bright Shadow

Mildred Pitts Walter – Because We Are

Special Citation

The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr., compiled by Coretta Scott King

1983

Author

Virginia Hamilton – Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush

Illustrator

Peter Magubane – Black Child

Author Honor

Julius Lester – This Strange New Feeling

Illustrator Honors

John Steptoe – All the Colors of the Race

Ashley Bryan – I’m Going to Sing: Black American Spirituals

Pat Cummings – Just Us Women

1982

Author

Mildred D. Taylor – Let the Circle Be Unbroken

Illustrator

John Steptoe – Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale from Sengal

Author Honors

Alice Childress – Rainbow Jordan

Kristin Hunter – Lou in the Limelight

Mary E. Mebane – Mary: An Autobiography

Illustrator Honor

Tom Feelings – Daydreamers

1981

Author

Sidney Poitier – This Life

Illustrator

Ashley Bryan – Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum

Author Honor

Alexis De Veaux – Don’t Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday

Illustrator Honors

Carole Byard – Grandmama’s Joy

Jerry Pinkney – Count on Your Fingers African Style

1980

Author

Walter Dean Myers – Young Landlords

Illustrator

Carole Byard – Cornrows

Author Honors

Berry Gordy Sr. – Movin’ Up

Eloise Greenfield & Lessie Jones Little – Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir

James Haskins – Andrew Young: Young Man with a Mission

James Haskins – James Van Der Zee: The Picture Takin’ Man

Ellease Southerland – Let the Lion Eat Straw

1979

Author

Ossie Davis – Escape to Freedom

Illustrator

Tom Feelings – Something on My Mind

Author Honors

Lillie Patterson – Benjamin Banneker

Jeanne W. Peterson – I Have a Sister, My Sister is Deaf

Virginia Hamilton – Justice and Her Brothers

Carol Fenner – Skates of Uncle Richard

1978

Author

Eloise Greenfield – Africa Dream

Illustrator

Carole Bayard – Africa Dream

Author Honors

William J. Faulkner – The Days When the Animals Talked: Black Folk Tales and How They Came to Be

Frankcina Glass – Marvin and Tige

Eloise Greenfield – Mary McCleod Bethune

James Haskins – Barbara Jordan

Lillie Patterson – Coretta Scott King

Ruth Ann Stewart – Portia: The Life of Portia Washington Pittman, the Daughter of Booker T. Washington

1977

Author

James Haskins – The Story of Stevie Wonder

Illustrator

No award presented

Author Honors

Lucille Clifton – Everett Anderson’s Friend

Mildred D. Taylor – Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Clarance N. Blake & Donald F. Martin – Quiz Book on Black America

1976

Author

Pearl Bailey – Duey’s Tale

Illustrator

No award presented

Author Honors

Shirley Graham – Julius K. Nyerere: Teacher of Africa

Eloise Greenfield – Paul Robeson

Walter Dean Myers – Fast Sam, Cool Clyde and Stuff

Mildred D. Taylor – Song of the Trees

1975

Author

Dorothy Robinson – The Legend of Africana

Illustrator

No award presented

1974

Author

Sharon Bell Mathis – Ray Charles

Illustrator (inaugural year)

George Ford – Ray Charles

Author Honors

Alice Childress – A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ but a Sandwich

Lucille Clifton – Do You Remember?

Louise Crane – Ms. Africa: Profiles of Modern African Women

Kristin Hunter – Guest in the Promised Land

John Nagenda – Mukasa

1973

Author

Jackie Robinson & Alfred Duckett – I Never Had it Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson

1972

Author

Elton C. Fax – 17 Black Artists

1971

Author

Charlemae Rollins – Black Troubador: Langston Hughes

Author Honors

Maya Angelou – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Shirley Chisholm – Unbought and Unbossed

Mari Evans – I Am a Black Woman

Lorenz Graham – Every Man Heart Lay Down

June Jordan & Terri Bush – The Voice of the Children

Gladys Groom & Bonnie Grossman – Black Means

Margaret W. Peters – Ebony Book of Black Achievement

Janice May Udry – Mary Jo’s Grandmother

1970

Author

Lillie Patterson – Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace


Carter G Woodson Award Book Awards

2020

Elementary Level Winner

The Undefeated – Kwame Alexander | Kadir Nelson | HMH

Middle/Secondary Level Winner

Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World II to Peace – Ashley Bryan | Atheneum BYR

Middle/Secondary Level Honorees

This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality – Joann Allen Boyce | Debbie Levy | Bloomsbury

2019

Elementary Level Winner

The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just – Mélina Mangal

Secondary Level Winner

A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riots of 1919 – Claire Hartfield

2018

Middle Level Honoree

Schomberg—The Man Who Built A Library Carole Boston Weatherford

Secondary Level Honoree

Now or Never!—54th Massachusetts Infantry’s War to End Slavery Ray Anthony Shepard

2017

Secondary Winner

March (Trilogy) – John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell

2016

Elementary Winners (Grades K–6)

Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton – Don Tate

Middle Level Honor

Searching for Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl in America – Tonya Bolden

2014

Middle Winner

Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty Tonya Bolden
2013

Elementary Winners

Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington – Jabari Asim

Harlem’s Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills – Renée Watson

2011

Elementary Winner

Sit In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down – Andrea Davis Pinkney

Secondary Honor

Simeon’s Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till – Simeon Wright w/Herb Boyd

2010

Elementary Honor

Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal -Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

2009

Elementary Winner
Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship – Nikki Giovanni

Middle Winner
Drama of African-American History: The Rise of Jim Crow – James Haskins& Kathleen Benson w/Virginia Schomp

2007

Elementary Winner
John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement – Jim Haskins & Kathleen Benson
2003

Middle Honor
Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie “Peanut” Johnson – Michelle Y. Green

2002

Elementary Winner
Coming Home: A Story of Josh Gibson, Baseball’s Greatest Home Run Hitter – Nanette Mellage

2001

Elementary Winner
The Sound that Jazz Makes – Carole Boston Weatherford

Middle Winner
Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters – Andrea Davis Pinkney

Middle Book
Carter G. Woodson: The Man Who Put “Black” in American History – Jim Haskins & Kathleen Benson

2000

Elementary Winner
Through My Eyes – Ruby Bridges

Secondary Honor
Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers – Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack

1999

Elementary Honor
The Riches of Oseola McCarty – Evelyn Coleman

Secondary Honor
Women of Hope: African Americans Who Made a Difference – Joyce Hansen

1998

Elementary Winner
Leon’s Story – Leon Walter Tillage

Elementary Honors
I Am Rosa Parks – Rosa Parks w/Jim Haskins

Princess of the Press: The Story of Ida B. Wells-Barnett – Angela Shelf Medearis

1997

Secondary Winner
The Harlem Renaissance – Jim Haskins

Secondary Honor
The Tuskegee Airmen: Heroes of World War II – Jacqueline Harris

1996

Secondary Outstanding Merit
Red-Tail Angels: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II – Patricia & Frederick McKissack

1995

Elementary Winner
Dear Benjamin Banneker – Andrea Davis Pinkney

1994

Elementary Outstanding Merit

The Great Migration by Paintings – Jacob Lawrence

Secondary Winner
The March on Washington – James Haskins

Secondary Outstanding Merit
Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom – Virginia Hamilton

1993

Elementary Award
Madam C.J. Walker – Patricia & Frederick McKissack

Secondary Winner
Mississippi Challenge – Mildred Pitts Walter

Outstanding Merit
Thurgood Marshall: A Life for Justice – James Haskins

1992

Elementary Outstanding Merit

Carter G. Woodson: The Father of Black History – Patricia & Frederick McKissack

Secondary Outstanding Merit
Now is Your Time: The African-American Struggle for Freedom – Walter Dean Myers

Outward Dreams: Black Inventors and their Inventions – James Haskins

1991

Secondary Outstanding Merit
W.E.B. DuBois – Patricia & Frederick McKissack

1990

Secondary Outstanding Merit
A Long Hard Journey – Patricia & Frederick McKissack

1988

Award Winner
Black Music in America: A History through Its People – James Haskins

1980

Outstanding Merit
James Van Derzee: The Picture Takin’ Man – Jim Haskins

1975

Award Winner
Make a Joyful Noise unto the Lord: The Life of Mahalia Jackson, Queen of the Gospel Singers – Jesse Jackson

1974

Award Winner
Rosa Parks – Eloise Greenfield


The Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children’s Literature

2020

Picture Book Award Winner

Saturday – Oge Mora

Fiction and Poetry Award Winner

King and the Dragon Flies – Kacen Callender

Fiction and Poetry Honor Book

Clap When You Land – Elizabeth Acevedo

Nonfiction Award Winner

Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace – Ashley Bryan

Nonfiction Honor Book

Ordinary Hazards – Nikki Grimes

2019

Fiction and Poetry Award Winner

The Season of Styx Malone – Kekla Magoon

Nonfiction Award Winner

This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality – Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy

Fiction and Poetry Honor Book

On the Come Up – Angie Thomas

2018

Fiction and Poetry Award  Winner

The Poet X – Elizabeth Acevedo 

Fiction and Poetry Honor Book

The Parker Inheritance – Varian Johnson 

2017

Fiction and Poetry Award  Winner

The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas  

Picture Book Award Winner

Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life – Ashley Bryan 

Fiction and Poetry Honor Book

One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance – Nikki Grimes 

2016

Nonfiction Honor Book

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement Carole Boston Weatherford

2015

Nonfiction Honor Book

Brown Girl Dreaming – Jacqueline Woodson

2014

Honor Picture Book

Knock Knock: My Dad’s Dream for Me – Daniel Beaty

2013

Nonfiction Honor Book

Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America – Andrea Davis Pinkney

2012

Fiction: No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis MichauxHarlem Bookseller – Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

2011

Honor Books

Fiction: Anna Hibicus – Atinuke

Picture: Pecan Pie Baby – Jacqueline Woodson

2010

Honor Book

Picture: The Lion and the Mouse – Jerry Pinkney

2005

Honor Book

Fiction & Poetry: A Wreath for Emmett Till Marilyn Nelson

2003

Honor Books

Fiction & Poetry: LocomotionJacqueline Woodson

Picture: blues journey Walter Dean Myers

2001

Fiction & Poetry: Carver: A Life in Poems – Marilyn Nelson

2000

Honor Book

Fiction: 145th Street: Short StoriesWalter Dean Myers

1999

Honor Books

Fiction: MonsterWalter Dean Myers

Picture: Dance – Bill T. Jones & Susan Kukli

1997

Picture Book: The Adventures of Sparrowboy – Brian Pinkney

Honor Book

Fiction: Harlem Walter Dean Myers

1995

Picture Book: John Henry – Julius Lester

1993

Fiction: Ajeemah and His Son – James Berry

Nonfiction: Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman? – Patricia C. and Fredrick McKissack

1992

Honor Book

Fiction: Somewhere in the DarknessWalter Dean Myers

1988

Fiction: The Friendship – Mildred D. Taylor

Nonfiction: Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave – Virginia Hamilton

1987

Picture Book: Mufaro’s Beautiful DaughtersJohn Steptoe

1983

Fiction: Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush – Virginia Hamilton

1980

Honor Book

Fiction: Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir – Eloise Greenfield

1977

Fiction: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred Taylor

1976

Honor Book

Picture: Song of the Boat – Lorenz Graham

1975

Honor Books

Fiction: The Hundred Penny Box – Sharon Bell Mathis

Picture: She Come Bringing Me That Little Baby Girl – Eloise Greenfield

1974

Fiction: M.C.Higgins, the Great – Virginia Hamilton

Picture Book: Jambo Means Hello – Muriel Feelings


The Caldecott Medal

2021

Honor Books

A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart

Noa Denmon | Zetta Elliott | Farrar Straus Giroux BYR

Me & Mama

Cozbi A. Cabrera | Denene Millner Books/Simon & Schuster BYR

2020

Medal Winner

The Undefeated

Kadir Nelson | Kwame Alexander | Versify

Honor Books

Double Bass Blues

Rudy Gutierrez | Andrea J. Loney | Knopf

Going Down Home with Daddy

Daniel Minter | Kelly Starling Lyons | Peachtree

2019

Honor Book

Thank You, Omu!

Oge Mora | Little, Brown BYR

2018

Honor Book

Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut

Gordon C. James | Derrick Barnes | Denene Millner Books/Agate Bolden

2017

Medal Winner

Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

Javaka Steptoe | Little, Brown BYR 

Honor Book

Freedom in Congo Square

R. Gregory Christie | Carole Boston Weatherford | little bee books

2016

Honor Book

Trombone Shorty

Bryan Collier | Troy Andrews | Little, Brown BYR

Honor Books

Voice of Freedom:  Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement

Ekua Holmes | Carole Boston Weatherford | Candlewick

2010

Medal Winner

The Lion & the Mouse

Jerry Pinkney | Little, Brown BYR

2007

Honor Book

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom

 Kadir Nelson | Carole Boston Weatherford | Hyperion

2006

Honor Book

Rosa

Bryan Collier | Nikki Giovanni | Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

2005

Honor Book

Coming on Home Soon

E.B. Lewis | Jacqueline Woodson | G.P. Putnam’s Sons BYR

2003

Medal Winner

Noah’s Ark

Jerry Pinkney | Chronicle Books

2000

Honor Book

The Ugly Duckling

Jerry Pinkney | Morrow Junior Books

1999

Honor Book

Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra

Brian Pinkney | Andrea Davis Pinkney | Hyperion

1998

Honor Book

Harlem

Christopher Myers | Walter Dean Myer | Scholastic Press

1995

Honor Book

John Henry

Jerry Pinkney | Julius Lester | Dial Books

1992

Honor Book

Tar Beach

Faith Ringgold | Knopf BYR

1989

Honor Book

Mirandy and Brother Wind

Jerry Pinkney | Patricia C. McKissack | Knopf BYR

1988

Honor Book

Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale

John Steptoe | Lothrop Lee & Shepard

1985

Honor Book

The Story of Jumping Mouse: A Native American Legend

John Steptoe | Lohrop, Lee & Shepard

1981

Honor Book

Truck

Donald Crews | Greenwillow Books

1979

Honor Book

Freight Train

Donald Crews | Greenwillow Books

1975

Honor Book

Jambo Means Hello: A Swahili Alphabet Book

Tom Feelings | Muriel Feelings | Puffin Books

1972

Honor Book

Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book

Tom Feelings | Muriel Feelings | Dial


Ezra Jack Keats Book Awards

2019

Illustrator Award

Thank You, Omu!

Oge Mora | Little, Brown and Company

2018

Writer Award

Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut

Derrick Barnes | Gordon C. James | Millner /Agate

Illustrator Honor

Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut

Gordon C. James | Derrick Barnes | Millner /Agate

2016

Writer Award

Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton

Don Tate | Peachtree Publishing

2015

Writer Honor

Firebird

Misty Copeland | Christopher Myers | G.P. Putnam’s Sons BYR

2013

Writer Honor

It Jes’ Happened

Don Tate | Lee & Low

2010

Writer Award

Most Loved in All the World

Tonya Cherie Hegamin | Cozbi Cabrera | HMH BYR

2009

Illustrator Award

Bird

Shadra Strickland | Zetta Elliott | Lee & Low

2005

Writer Award

Going North

Janice N. Harrington | Jerome Lagarrigue | Farrar, Straus and Giroux

2001

Illustrator Award

Uptown

Bryan Collier | Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

1991

Writer Award

Tell Me a Story

Angela Johnson | David Soman | Scholastic

1986

Writer Award

The Patchwork Quilt

Valerie Flournoy | Jerry Pinkney | Dial


The John Newbery Medal

2021

Honor Book

BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom

Carole Boston Weatherford | Michele Wood | Candlewick Press

2020

Medal Winner

New Kid

Jerry Craft | HarperCollins

Honor Books

The Undefeated

Kwame Alexander | Kadir Nelson | Versify/HMH

Genesis Begins Again

Alicia D. Williams | Atheneum/Simon & Schuster/Dlouhy

2018

Honor Books

Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut

Derrick Barnes | Gordon C. James | Denene Millner/Agate

Long Way Down

Jason Reynolds | Atheneum/Dlouhy

Piecing Me Together

Renée Watson | Bloomsbury

2017

Honor Book

Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan

Ashley Bryan | Atheneum/Dlouhy

2015

Medal Winner

The Crossover

Kwame Alexander | HMH BYR

Honor Book

brown girl dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson | Nancy Paulsen Books

2011

Honor Book

One Crazy Summer

Rita Williams-Garcia |  Scholastic

2009

Honor Book

After Tupac & D Foster

Jacqueline Woodson | Nancy Paulsen Books

2008

Honor Books

Elijah of Buxton

Christopher Paul Curtis |  Scholastic

Feathers

Jacqueline Woodson | G.P. Putnam’s Sons BYR

2006

Honor Book

Show Way

Jacqueline Woodson | G.P. Putnam’s Sons B

2002

Honor Book

Carver: A Life in Poems

Marilyn Nelson | Front Street

2000

Medal Winner

Bud, Not Buddy

Christopher Paul Curtis | Delacorte BYR

1996

Honor Book

The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963

Christopher Paul Curtis | Delacorte BYR

1993

Honor Book

Somewhere in the Darkness

Walter Dean Myers | Scholastic

1989

Honor Books

In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World

Virginia Hamilton | HMH BYR

Scorpions

Walter Dean Myers | Turtleback Books

1983

Honor Book

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush

Virginia Hamilton | Philomel

1977

Medal Winner

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Mildred D. Taylor | PuffinBooks

1976

Honor Book

The Hundred Penny Box

Sharon Bell Mathis | Puffin Books

1975

Medal Winner

M. C. Higgins, the Great

Virginia Hamilton | Aladdin

1972

Honor Book

The Planet of Junior Brown

Virginia Hamilton | Aladdin

1969

Honor Book

To Be a Slave

Julius Lester | Dial

1949

Honor Book

Story of the Negro

Arna Bontemps | Random House


NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children

2021

Honor Book

Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box

Evette Dionne | Viking BYR

Recommended Book

Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freeloon

Kelly Starling Lyons | Laura Freeman | Lee & Low Books

2020

Recommended Title

Let ‘Er Buck: George Fletcher, the People’s Champion

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson | Gordon C. James | Carolrhoda Books

2019

Recommended Titles

Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental Man

Tonya Bolden  | Abrams BYR

Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams

Lesa Cline-Ransome | James E. Ransome | Simon & Schuster/Wiseman

2017

Recommended Title

How to Build a Museum: Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture

Tonya Bolden | Viking BYR

2016

Recommended Titles

My Story, My Dance: Robert Battle’s Journey to Alvin Ailey

Lesa Cline Ransome

Trombone Shorty

Troy Andrews | Bryan Collier | Abrams BYR

2015

Recommended Title

Little Melba and Her Big Trombone

Katheryn Russell-Brown | y Frank Morrison | Lee & Low Books

2014

Recommended Title

Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty

Tonya Bolden | Abrams Books for Young Readers

2012

Recommended Title

Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans

Kadir Nelson | Balzer + Bray

2009

Honor Books

George Washington Carver

Tonya Bolden | Abrams Books for Young Readers

We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball

Kadir Nelson | Hyperion Books for Children

2008

Winner

M.L.K. Journey of a King 

Tonya Bolden | Abrams Books for Children

2007

Recommended Title

Onward: A Photobiography of African American Polar Explorer Matthew Henson

Delores Johnson | National Geographic Children’s Books

Construction Zone

Cheryl Willis Hudson | Richard Sobol | Candlewick Press

2006

Recommended Title

Maritcha: A Nineteenth Century American Girl

Tonya Bolden | Harry N. Abrams

2000

Winner

Through My Eyes

Ruby Bridges | Margo Lundell | Scholastic Press

Honor Book

At Her Majesty’s Request: An African Princess in Victorian England

Walter Dean Myers | Scholastic Press

Recommended Title

Bound for America: The Forced Migration of Africans to the New World

James Haskins | Kathleen Benson | Floyd Cooper | Lothrop Lee & Shepard

1999

Recommended Title

Duke Ellington

Andrea Davis Pinkney | Brian Pinkney | Hyperion

1998

Recommended Titles

Fiery Vision: The Life and Death of John Brown

Clinton Cox | Scholastic

Leon’s Story

Leon Walter Tillage | Susan L. Roth | Farrar, Straus, Giroux

1995

Honor Book

Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters

Patricia C. McKissack | Frederick L. McKissack | Scholastic)

1995

Recommended Title

Jazz: My Music, My People

Morgan Monceaux | Knopf

1994

Recommended Titles

The Great Migration: An American Story

Jacob Lawrence | HarperCollins

Many Thousand Gone: African Americans fromSlavery to Freedom

Virginia Hamilton | Leo and Diane Dillon | Knopf

Seven Candles for Kwanzaa

Andrea Davis Pinkney | Brian Pinkney | Dial Books

1993

Honor Book

Talking with Artists

Pat Cummings | Bradbury Press

1992

Honor Book

Now Is Your Time! The African American Struggle for Freedom

Walter Dean Myers | HarperCollins


NCTE Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children

2020

Honor Book

New Kid – Jerry Craft

Recommended Book

For Black Girls Like Me – Mariama J. Lockington

The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family – Ibtihaj Muhammad, illustrated by Hatem Aly, w/S. K. Ali

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky – Kwame Mbalia

2019

Honor Books

Can I Touch Your Hair? – Irene Latham & Charles Waters

Ghost Boys – Jewell Parker Rhodes

Recommended Book

The Day You Begin – Jacqueline Woodson

2018

Recommended Book

Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut – Derrick D Barnes

2017

Winner
Ghost – Jason Reynolds

2016

Winner

Stella by Starlight – Sharon M. Draper

2015

Honor Book

The Crossover – Kwame Alexander

Recommended Book

The Madman of Piney Woods – Christopher Paul Curtis

For a Complete List of NCTE Awards 


Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal

2017

Medal Winner

March: Book Three – John Lewis & Andrew Aydin

2016

Honor Books

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March – Lynda Blackmon Lowery as told to Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement – Carole Boston Weatherford

2015

Honor Book

brown girl dreaming – Jacqueline Woodson

2009

Medal Winner

We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League BaseballKadir Nelson


Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction

2019

Finding Langston – Lesa Cline-Ransome

2011

One Crazy Summer – Rita Williams Garcia

2008

Elijah of Buxton – Christopher Paul Curtis

2002

The Land – Mildred D. Taylor

1999

Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule – Harriette Robinette


The Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production

2019

Honor Audiobooks

The Parker Inheritance – Varian Johnson, narrated by Cherise Boothe

The Poet X – Elizabeth Acevedo, narrated by Elizabeth Acevedo

2018

Award Winner

The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas, narrated by Bahni Turpin

Honor Audiobooks

Long Way Down – Jason Reynolds, narrated by Jason Reynolds

Trombone Shorty – Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews, narrated by Dion Graham

2017

Honor Audiobook 

GhostJason Reynolds, narrated by Guy Lockard

2015

Award Winner

H.O. R. S. E. A Game of Basketball and Imagination Christopher Myers, narrated by Dion Graham and Christopher Myers

2012

Honor Audiobook

Ghetto Cowboy – G. Neri, narrated by JD Jackson

2010

Honor Audiobooks
Peace, Locomotion – Jacqueline Woodson, narrated by Dion Graham
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball – Kadir Nelson, narrated by Dion Graham

2009

Honor Audiobook

Elijah of Buxton – Christopher Paul Curtis, narrated by Mirron Willis

 2008

Award Winner

Jazz – Walter Dean Myers, narrated by James “D-Train” Williams and Vaneese Thomas


Children’s Literature Legacy Award

2019

Walter Dean Myers

2018

Jacqueline Woodson

2017

Nikki Grimes

2016

Jerry Pinkney

2015

Donald Crews


ALA Notable Children’s Books

2019

Younger

The Day You Begin – Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Rafael López

Don’t Touch My Hair! – Sharee Miller

Mommy’s Khimar – Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, illustrated by Ebony Glenn

Thank You, Omu! – Oge Mora

Middle

Dragons in a Bag – Zetta Elliott, illustrated by Geneva B. Random

Finding Langston – Lesa Cline-Ransome

Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams – Lesa Cline-Ransome, illustrated by James Ransome

Hammering for Freedom – Rita Lorraine Hubbard, illustrated by John Holyfield

Martin Rising: Requiem for a King – Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney

Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968 – Alice Faye Duncan, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie

No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and His Kingdom in Kansas – Tonya Bolden, illustrated by Don Tate

The Parker Inheritance – Varian Johnson

The Season of Styx Malone – Kekla Magoon

Older 

Children of Blood and Bone – Tomi Adeyemi

Ghost Boys – Jewell Parker Rhodes

Harbor Me – Jacqueline Woodson

Hurricane Child – Kacen Callender (f.k.a Kheryn Callender)

March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine – Melba Pattillo Beals, illustrated by Frank Morrison

The Poet X – Elizabeth Acevedo

Rebound – Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile

Tight – Torrey Maldonado

2018

Younger

Baby Goes to Market – Atinuke, Illus. by Angela Brooksbank

Middle

Clayton Byrd Goes Underground – Rita Williams-Garcia, Illus. by Frank Morrison

Older

Long Way Down – Jason Reynolds

Midnight without a Moon – Linda Williams Jackson

Patina – Jason Reynolds

Piecing Me Together – Renée Watson

Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library – Carole Boston Weatherford, Illus. by Eric Velasquez

The Stars beneath Our Feet – David Barclay Moore

All Ages

Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut – Derrick Barnes, Illus. by Gordon C. James

Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets – Kwame Alexander w/Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth, Illus. by Ekua Holmes

2017

Middle Readers

Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis – Jabari Asim

Older Readers

As Brave As You – Jason Reynolds

Booked – Kwame Alexander

Garvey’s Choice – Nikki Grimes

Ghost – Jason Reynolds

March: Book Three – John Lewis and Andrew Aydin

You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen – Carole Boston Weatherford

All Ages

Freedom in Congo Square – Carole Boston Weatherford

Freedom over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan – Ashley Bryan

Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat – Javaka Steptoe

2016

Younger Readers

The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, & Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore – Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

The Grasshopper and the Ants – Jerry Pinkney

If You Plant a Seed – Kadir Nelson

Trombone Shorty Troy Andrews

Middle Readers

28 Days: Moments in Black History That Changed the World – Charles R. Smith Jr

Gone Crazy in Alabama – Rita Williams-Garcia

My Story, My Dance: Robert Battle’s Journey to Alvin Ailey – Lesa Cline-Ransome

Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton – Don Tate

Stella by Starlight – Sharon M. Draper

Older Readers

Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War – Jessica Dee Humphreys and Michel Chikwanine

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March – Lynda Blackmon Lowery as told to Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley

2015

Younger Readers

Beautiful Moon: A Child’s Prayer – Tonya Bolden

Firebird – Misty Copeland

Little Melba and Her Big Trombone – Katheryn Russell-Brown

Middle Readers

Brown Girl Dreaming – Jacqueline Woodson

The Great Greene Heist – Varian Johnson

Hello, I’m Johnny Cash – G. Neri

Kinda Like Brothers – Coe Booth

A Moose Boosh: A Few Choice Words about Food – Eric-Shabazz Larkin

The Red Pencil – Andrea Davis Pinkney

Older Readers

The Crossover – Kwame Alexander

How I Discovered Poetry – Marilyn Nelson

Lists of Past ALA Notable Children’s Books


The Michael L. Printz Awards

2019

Winner

The Poet X – Elizabeth Acevedo

2018

Honor Books

Long Way Down – Jason Reynolds

The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas

2017

Winner

March: Book Three – John Lewis & Andrew Aydin

Honor Book

The Sun Is Also a Star – Nicola Yoon

2006

Honor Book

A Wreath for Emmett Till – Marilyn Nelson

2004

Winner

The First Part Last – Angela Johnson

2000

Winner

Monster – Walter Dean Myers


The Margaret A. Edwards Award

2018

Angela Johnson

2015

Sharon Draper

2006

Jacqueline Woodson 

1994

Walter Dean Myers 


The YALSA Alex Awards

2019

The Black God’s Drums – P. Djèlí Clark

The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After – Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil

How Long ’Til Black Future Month? – N. K. Jemisin

2018

Electric Arches – Eve L. Ewing

2016

Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates

2012

Salvage the BonesJesmyn Ward

2010

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope – William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer

2008

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy SoldierIshmael Beah

2004

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere – Z.Z. Packer

2003

The Fall of Rome – Martha Southgate

2002

Gabriel’s Story – David Anthony Durham

Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self – Rebecca Walker

2001

Soldier: A Poet’s Childhood – June Jordan

2000

River, Cross My Heart – Breena Clarke

Imani All Mine – Connie Porter

1999

CaucasiaDanzy Senna

1998

Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America – Rebecca Carroll

Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and EmancipationVelma Maia Thomas

Only Twice I’ve Wished for HeavenDawn Turner Trice


Golden Kite Award

2011

Nonfiction Honor
Fort Mose: And the Story of the Man Who Built the First Free Black Settlement in Colonial AmericaGlennette Tilley Turner

2010

Nonfiction

Ashley Bryan: Words to My Life’s Song – Ashley Bryan

Picture Book Illustration Honor
Bad News for Outlaws – R. Gregory Christie
2009

Picture Book Text Honor

Before John was a Jazz Giant – Carole Boston Weatherford
2007

Picture Book Text

Jazz – Walter Dean Myers

Picture Book Text Honor

Dear Mr. Rosenwald – Carole Boston Weatherford

2005

Fiction

Bucking the SargeChristopher Paul Curtis

2000

Fiction Honor

Bud, Not Buddy – Christopher Paul Curtis

1996

Fiction

The Watsons Go To Birmingham – 1963 – Christopher Paul Curtis

Nonfiction Honor

One More River to Cross: African American Photo Album – Walter Dean Myers

1992

Nonfiction Honor

Now Is Your Time!: African American Struggle For Freedom – Walter Dean Myers

1991

Picture Book

Home Place – Jerry Pinkney


The Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards

2019

Ghost Boys – Jewell Parker Rhodes

The Day You Begin – Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Rafael López

We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices – Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson​ (Editors)

2018

Honor Book for Younger Children

Before She Was Harriet – Lesa Cline-Ransome, Illustrator – James E. Ransome

Honor Books for Older Children

Midnight Without A Moon – Linda Williams Jackson

Piecing Me Together – Renée Watson
 

2016

Book for Older Children

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March – Lynda Blackmon Lowery as told to Elspeth Leacock & Susan Buckley

Honor for Books for Younger Children

Mama’s Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation – Edwidge Danticat

The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore – Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

2014

Book for Older Children

Sugar – Jewell Parker Rhodes

2013

Book for Younger Children

Each Kindness – Jacqueline Woodson

Honors Book for Younger Children

We March – Shane W. Evans

2012

Honor Book for Younger Children

Belle, the Last Mule at Gee’s Bend – Calvin Alexander Ramsey & Bettye Stroud:

Honor Book for Older Children

Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans – Kadir Nelson –

2011

Honor Books for Younger Children

Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down – Andrea Davis Pinkney

Ruth and the Green Book – Calvin Alexander Ramsey

Honor Book for Older Children

The Ninth Ward – Jewell Parker Rhodes

2010

Honor Book for Younger Children

Sojourner Truth’s Step – Stomp Stride – Andrea Davis Pinkney

2008

Honor Books for Older Children

Elijah of Buxton – Christopher Paul Curtis:

Birmingham, 1963 – Carole Boston Weatherford:

2006

Book for Younger Children

Delivering Justice: W. W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights – Jim Haskins

2005

Honor Book for Younger Children

Hot Day on Abbott Avenue – Karen English:

2003

Picture Book

Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam – Walter Dean Myers

2001

Honor Book for Older Children

The Color of My Words – Lynn Joseph

Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues – Harriette Gillem Robinet

2000

Book for Older Children

Through My Eyes – Ruby Bridges

Picture Book

Molly Bannaky – Alice McGill

1999

Picture Book Honor

i see the rhythm – Toyomi Igus

1997

Honor Book for Older Children

Second Daughter: The Story of a Slave Girl – Mildred Pitts Walter

1996

Bok for Older Children

The Well – Mildred D. Taylor

Honor Books for Older Children

From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun – Jacqueline Woodson

The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963 – Christopher Paul Curtis

Special Commendation

The Middle Passage – Tom Feelings

1995

Honor Book for Older Children

Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This – Jacqueline Woodson

1994

Honor Picture Book

Soul Looks Back in Wonder – Tom Feelings

1993

Picture Book

Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky – Faith Ringgold

1992

Honor Book

Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom – Walter Dean Myers

1990

Book

A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter – Patricia and Fredrick McKissack

1989 (Tie)

Book

Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave – Virginia Hamilton

1982

Honor Book

Let the Circle Be Unbroken – Mildred D. Taylor

1979

Honor Book

Escape to Freedom – Ossie Davis

1978

Special Recognition

Amifika – Lucille Clifton

1977

Honor Book

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Mildred D. Taylor

1976

Book

Paul Robeson – Eloise Greenfield

Honor Book

Song of the Trees – Mildred D. Taylor

1974

Honor Book

A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ but a Sandwich – Alice Childress

1956

Story of the Negro – Arna Bontemps


eLit Awards

2015

Multicultural Fiction: Silver

The Ghanaian Goldilocks – Dr. Tamara Pizzoli


NAACP Image Awards

2019

Outstanding Literary Work – Children

Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race – Margot Lee Shetterly, Illustrated by Laura Freeman

Outstanding Literary Work – Youth/Teens

Clayton Byrd Goes Underground – Rita Williams-Garcia, Illustrated by Frank Morrison

2018

Children’s Outstanding Literary Work

Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History – Vashti Harrison

Youth/Teens Outstanding Literary Work, Youth/Teens

Clayton Byrd Goes Underground – Rita Williams-Garcia

2017

Children’s Outstanding Literary Work

Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas – Gwendolyn Hooks

Youth/Teen Outstanding Literary Work

As Brave As You – Jason Reynolds

2016

Children’s Outstanding Literary Work

Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America – Carole Boston Weatherford

Youth/Teen Outstanding Literary Work

X: A Novel – Ilyasah Shabazz & Kekla Magoon

2015

Children’s Outstanding Literary Work

Dork Diaries: Tales From a Not-So-Popular Party Girl – Rachel Renee Russell

Youth/Teen Outstanding Literary Work

brown girl dreaming – Jacqueline Woodson


National Book Award for Young People’s Literature

2019

Finalists

Pet – Akwaeke Emezi

Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks – Jason Reynolds

2018

Winner

The Poet X – Elizabeth Acevedo

Finalist

The Journey of Little Charlie – Christopher Paul Curtis

2017

Finalists

Clayton Byrd Goes Underground – Rita Williams-Garcia

American Street – Ibi Zoboi

2016

Winner

March: Book Three – John Lewis & Andrew Aydin

Finalists

Ghost – Jason Reynolds

The Sun Is Also a Star – Nicola Yoon

2014

Winner

brown girl dreaming – Jacqueline Woodson

2009

Finalist

Jumped – Rita Williams-Garcia

2007

Finalist

Touching Snow – M. Sindy Felin

2005

Finalist

Autobiography of My Dead Brother – Walter Dean Myers

2004

Finalist

The Legend of Buddy Bush – Shelia P. Moses

2003

Finalist

Locomotion – Jacqueline Woodson

2002

Finalist

Hush – Jacqueline Woodson

2001

Finalist

Carver: A Life in PoemsMarilyn Nelson

1999

Finalist

Monster – Walter Dean Myers


The Charlotte Zolotow Award

2019

Highly Commended Titles

The Patchwork Bike – Maxine Beneba Clarke

Thank You, Omu! – Oge Mora

The Day You Begin – Jacqueline Woodson, Illustrated by Rafael López

2018

Honor Book

Baby Goes to Market – Atinuke, Illustrator – Angela Brooksbank

Highly Commended Title

Before She Was Harriet – Lesa Cline-Ransome, Illustrator – James E. Ransome

2017

Winner

Freedom in Congo Square – Carole Boston Weatherford, Illustrator – R. Gregory Christie

2016

Highly Commended Title

Mama’s Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation – Edwidge Danticat, Illustrator – Leslie Staub

2015

Honor Book

Beautiful Moon: A Child’s Prayer – Tonya Bolden, Illustrator – Eric Velasquez

2014

Honor Books

My Cold Plum Lemon Pie Bluesy Mood – Tameka Fryer Brown, Illustrator – Shane W. Evans

This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration – Jacqueline Woodson, Illustrator – James E. Ransome

2014

Highly Commended Title

Max and the Tag-Along Moon – Floyd Cooper

2013

Winner

Each Kindness – Jacqueline Woodson, Illustrator -E. B. Lewis

2013

Highly Commended Titles

We March – Shane W. Evans

Tea Cakes for Tosh – Kelly Starling Lyons, Illustrator – E. B. Lewis

2010

Highly Commended Title

Who Will I Be, Lord? – Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, Illustrator – Sean Qualls

2009

Highly Commended Title

Dance with Me – Smith, Jr., Charles R. Smith., Illustrator – Noah Z. Jones

2008

Highly Commended Titles

The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County – Janice Harrington, Illustrator – Shelley Jackson

The All-I’ll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll – Patricia C. McKissack, Illustrator – Jerry Pinkney

2006

Honor Book

Precious and the Boo Hag – Patricia C. McKissack & Onawumi Jean Moss, Illustrator – Kyrsten Brooker

2005

Honor Book

Coming On Home Soon – Jacqueline Woodson, Illustrator – E. B. Lewis

2005

Highly Commended Title

Hot Day on Abbott Avenue – Karen English, Illustrator – Javaka Steptoe

2004

Highly Commended Title

Yesterday I Had the Blues – Jeron Ashford Frame, Illustrator – R. Gregory Christie

2001  

Honor Book

Wings – Christopher Myers

2001

Highly Commended Title

Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children – Sandra L. Pinkney, Illustrator – Myles Pinkney

2000

Highly Commended Titles

The Hatseller and the Monkeys: A West African Folktale – Baba Wagué Diakite’

When Will Sarah Come? Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard, Illustrator – Nina Crews

You Are My Perfect Baby Joyce Carol Thomas, Illustrated – Nneka Bennett

1999

Highly Commended Title

Dance! With Bill T. JonesBill T. Jones & Susan Kuklin, Photographer -Susan Kuklin

1998

Highly Commended Title

Ma Dear’s Aprons – Patricia C. McKissack, Illustrator – Floyd Cooper