Book AwardsJane Addams Children's Book Award

Book awards by cover

Works (98)

TitlesOrder
People Are Important by Eva Knox Evans1953
Stick-in-th-Mud by Jean Ketchum1954
Rainbow Round the World: A Story of UNICEF by Elizabeth Yates1955
Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps1956
Blue Mystery by Margot Benary-Isbert1957
The Perilous Road by William O. Steele1958
Champions of Peace by Edith Patterson Meyer1960
What Then, Raman? by Shirley L. Arora1961
The Road to Agra by Aimée Sommerfelt1962
The monkey and the wild, wild wind by Ryerson Johnson1963
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy1964
Meeting With a Stranger by Duane Bradley1965
Berries Goodman by Emily Cheney Neville1966
Queenie Peavy by Robert Burch 1967
The Little Fishes by Erik Christian Haugaard1968
The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig1969
The Cay by Theodore Taylor1970
Jane Addams, Pioneer for Social Justice; A Biography, by Cornelia Meigs1971
The Tamarack Tree by Betty Underwood1972
The Riddle of racism by S. Carl Hirsch1973
Nilda by Nicholasa Mohr1974
The Princess and the Admiral by Charlotte Pomerantz1975
Paul Robeson by Eloise Greenfield1976
Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust by Milton Meltzer1977
Child of the Owl by Laurence Yep1978
Amifika by Lucille CliftonSpecial Recognition, 1978
The wheel of King Asoka by Ashok DavarSpecial Recognition, 1978
Many Smokes, Many Moons: A Chronology of American Indian History Through Indian Art by Jamake Highwater1979
The Road From Home: A True Story of Courage, Survival and Hope by David Kherdian1980
Natural History by M. B. GoffsteinSpecial Recognition, 1980
First Woman in Congress: Jeannette Rankin by Florence Meiman White1981
A Spirit to Ride the Whirlwind by Athena V. Lord1982
Hiroshima No Pika by Maruki Toshi1983
All the Colors of the Race by Arnold AdoffSpecial Recognition, 1983
Children as Teachers of Peace by Gerald G. JampolskySpecial Recognition, 1983
Rain of fire by Marion Dane Bauer1984
The Short Life of Sophie Scholl by Hermann Vinke1985
Ain't Gonna Study War No More: The Story of America's Peace Seekers by Milton Meltzer1986
Nobody Wants a Nuclear War: Story and Pictures by Judith Vigna1987
Waiting for the Rain by Sheila Gordon1988
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave by Virginia Hamiltontie, 1989
Looking Out by Victoria Boutistie, 1989
A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter by Pat McKissack1990
The Wednesday Surprise by Eve BuntingHonor Book, 1990
The Big Book for Peace by Ann Durell1991
Journey of the Sparrows by Fran Leeper Buss1992
Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti by Frances TempleBook for Older Children, 1993
Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky by Faith RinggoldPicture Book, 1993
Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories by Ellen LevineBook for Older Children, 1994
This Land Is My Land by George LittlechildPicture Book, 1994
Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor by Russell FreedmanBook for Older Children, 1995
Sitti's Secrets by Naomi Shihab NyePicture Book, 1995
The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo by Tom FeelingsSpecial Commendation, 1995
The Well by Mildred D. TaylorBook for Older Children, 1996
Growing Up in Coal Country by Susan Campbell BartolettiBook for Older Children, 1997
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman by Kathleen KrullPicture Book, 1997
Habibi by Naomi Shihab NyeBook for Older Children, 1998
Seven Brave Women by Betsy HearnePicture Book, 1998
Bat 6 by Virginia Euwer WolffBook for Older Children, 1999
Marianthe's Story: Painted Words and Spoken Memories by AlikiPicture Book, 1999
Through My Eyes by Ruby BridgesBook for Older Children, 2000
Molly Bannaky by Chris K. SoentpietPicture Book, 2000
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz RyanBook for Older Children, 2001
The Composition by Antonio SkármetaPicture Book, 2001
The Other Side of Truth by Beverley NaidooBook for Older Children, 2002
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Doreen RappaportPicture Book, 2002
Parvana's Journey by Deborah EllisBook for Older Children, 2003; Special Recognition, 2004
Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam by Walter Dean MyersPicture Book, 2003
Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope by Beverley NaidooBooks for Older Children, 2004
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen KrullPicture Book, 2004
The Breadwinner by Deborah EllisSpecial Recognition, 2004
The Breadwinner Trilogy by Deborah EllisSpecial Recognition, 2004
Mud City by Deborah EllisSpecial Recognition, 2004
With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote by Ann BausumBook for Older Children, 2005
Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America by Karen BlumenthalBook for Older Children, 2006
Delivering Justice: W.W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights by Jim HaskinsBooks for Younger Children, 2006
Weedflower by Cynthia KadohataBook for Older Children, 2007
A Place Where Sunflowers Grow by Amy Lee-TaiBooks for Younger Children, 2007
We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin by Larry Dane BrimnerBook for Older Children, 2008
The Escape of Oney Judge: Martha Washington's Slave Finds Freedom by Emily Arnold McCullyBooks for Younger Children, 2008
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita EngleBooks for Older Children, 2009
Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai by Claire A. NivolaBooks for Younger Children, 2009
Marching For Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary by Elizabeth PartridgeBooks for Older Children, 2010
Nasreen's Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan by Jeanette WinterBooks for Younger Children, 2010
Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty by Linda Glasertie, Books for Younger Children, 2011
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story by Linda Sue Parktie, Books for Younger Children, 2011
Sylvia & Aki by Winifred ConklingBooks for Older Children, 2012
The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families by Susan L. RothBooks for Younger Children, 2012
We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March by Cynthia LevinsonBooks for Older Children, 2013
Each Kindness by Jacqueline WoodsonBooks for Younger Children, 2013
Sugar by Jewell Parker RhodesBooks for Older Children, 2014
Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909 by Michelle MarkelBooks for Younger Children, 2014
The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement by Teri KanefieldBooks for Older Children, 2015
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan TonatiuhBooks for Younger Children, 2015
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March by Lynda Blackmon LoweryBooks for Older Children, 2016
New Shoes by Susan Lynn MeyerBooks for Younger Children, 2016
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story by Caren StelsonBooks for Older Children, 2017
Steamboat School by Deborah HopkinsonBooks for Younger Children, 2017