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 Michaux, Harlem 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: Locomotion – Jacqueline Woodson
Picture: blues journey – Walter Dean Myers
2001
Fiction & Poetry: Carver: A Life in Poems – Marilyn Nelson
2000
Honor Book
Fiction: 145th Street: Short Stories – Walter Dean Myers
1999
Honor Books
Fiction: Monster – Walter 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 Darkness – Walter 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 Daughters – John 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
Cozbi A. Cabrera | Denene Millner Books/Simon & Schuster BYR
2020
Medal Winner
Kadir Nelson | Kwame Alexander | Versify
Honor Books
Double Bass Blues
Rudy Gutierrez | Andrea J. Loney | Knopf
Daniel Minter | Kelly Starling Lyons | Peachtree
2019
Honor Book
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
R. Gregory Christie | Carole Boston Weatherford | little bee books
2016
Honor Book
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
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
Bryan Collier | Nikki Giovanni | Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
2005
Honor Book
E.B. Lewis | Jacqueline Woodson | G.P. Putnam’s Sons BYR
2003
Medal Winner
Jerry Pinkney | Chronicle Books
2000
Honor Book
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
Christopher Myers | Walter Dean Myer | Scholastic Press
1995
Honor Book
Jerry Pinkney | Julius Lester | Dial Books
1992
Honor Book
Faith Ringgold | Knopf BYR
1989
Honor Book
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
Donald Crews | Greenwillow Books
1979
Honor Book
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
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
Misty Copeland | Christopher Myers | G.P. Putnam’s Sons BYR
2013
Writer Honor
Don Tate | Lee & Low
2010
Writer Award
Tonya Cherie Hegamin | Cozbi Cabrera | HMH BYR
2009
Illustrator Award
Shadra Strickland | Zetta Elliott | Lee & Low
2005
Writer Award
Janice N. Harrington | Jerome Lagarrigue | Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2001
Illustrator Award
Bryan Collier | Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
1991
Writer Award
Angela Johnson | David Soman | Scholastic
1986
Writer Award
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
Jerry Craft | HarperCollins
Honor Books
Kwame Alexander | Kadir Nelson | Versify/HMH
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
Jason Reynolds | Atheneum/Dlouhy
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
Kwame Alexander | HMH BYR
Honor Book
Jacqueline Woodson | Nancy Paulsen Books
2011
Honor Book
Rita Williams-Garcia | Scholastic
2009
Honor Book
Jacqueline Woodson | Nancy Paulsen Books
2008
Honor Books
Christopher Paul Curtis | Scholastic
Jacqueline Woodson | G.P. Putnam’s Sons BYR
2006
Honor Book
Jacqueline Woodson | G.P. Putnam’s Sons B
2002
Honor Book
Marilyn Nelson | Front Street
2000
Medal Winner
Christopher Paul Curtis | Delacorte BYR
1996
Honor Book
The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963
Christopher Paul Curtis | Delacorte BYR
1993
Honor Book
Walter Dean Myers | Scholastic
1989
Honor Books
In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World
Virginia Hamilton | HMH BYR
Walter Dean Myers | Turtleback Books
1983
Honor Book
Virginia Hamilton | Philomel
1977
Medal Winner
Mildred D. Taylor | PuffinBooks
1976
Honor Book
Sharon Bell Mathis | Puffin Books
1975
Medal Winner
Virginia Hamilton | Aladdin
1972
Honor Book
Virginia Hamilton | Aladdin
1969
Honor Book
Julius Lester | Dial
1949
Honor Book
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
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
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
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
Cheryl Willis Hudson | Richard Sobol | Candlewick Press
2006
Recommended Title
Maritcha: A Nineteenth Century American Girl
Tonya Bolden | Harry N. Abrams
2000
Winner
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
Andrea Davis Pinkney | Brian Pinkney | Hyperion
1998
Recommended Titles
Fiery Vision: The Life and Death of John Brown
Clinton Cox | Scholastic
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
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
Andrea Davis Pinkney | Brian Pinkney | Dial Books
1993
Honor Book
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 Baseball – Kadir 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
Ghost – Jason 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
2015
2006
1994
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 Bones – Jesmyn 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 Soldier – Ishmael 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
Caucasia – Danzy 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 Emancipation – Velma Maia Thomas
Only Twice I’ve Wished for Heaven – Dawn 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 America – Glennette 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 Sarge – Christopher 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 Poems – Marilyn 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. Jones – Bill T. Jones & Susan Kuklin, Photographer -Susan Kuklin
1998
Highly Commended Title
Ma Dear’s Aprons – Patricia C. McKissack, Illustrator – Floyd Cooper