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Jane Addams Children's Book Award

The Jane Addams Children's Book Awards are given annually to the children's books published the preceding year that effectively promote the cause of peace, social justice, world community, and the equality of the sexes and all races as well as meeting conventional standards for excellence.

Jane Addams Children's Book Award Website

Winner

A song for the unsung : Bayard Rustin, the man behind the 1963 March on Washington

Honors

That flag
The artivist

Finalists

A hero like me
Autumn Peltier, water warrior
Hidden hope : how a toy and a hero saved lives during the Holocaust
How do you spell unfair? : Macnolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee
Justice Ketanji : the story of US Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
My red, white, and blue
Something, someday
Spanish is the language of my family
The walk
To boldly go : how Nichelle Nichols and Star trek helped advance civil rights

Winner

The lost year

Honors

Mascot
World made of glass

Finalists

Hands
Ida in the middle
Indigo and Ida
Land of broken promises
Saving Sunshine
School trip
Top story
Warrior girl

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 2023

Books for Younger Children
Books for Older Children

Winner

Choosing brave : how Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till sparked the civil rights movement

Honors

Finalists

Winner

Undercover Latina

Honors

Finalists

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 2022

Books for Younger Children
Books for Older Children

Winner

Shirley Chisholm dared : the story of the first Black woman in Congress

Honors

Finalists

Winner

How to find what you're not looking for

Honors

Finalists

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 2021

Books for Younger Children
Books for Older Children

Winner

We are water protectors

Honors

Finalists

Winner

A wish in the dark

Honors

Finalists

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 2020

The selection process is being changed in 2020, resulting in no award being given this year; the award will resume in January 2021

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 2019

Books for Older Children
Books for Younger Children

Winner

Ghost boys

Honors

Winner

The day you begin

Honors

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 2018

Books for Older Children
Books for Younger Children

Winner

The enemy : Detroit, 1954

Honors

Winner

Malala's magic pencil

Honor

Before she was Harriet

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 2017

Books for Older Children
Books for Younger Children

Winner

Sachiko : a Nagasaki bomb survivor's story

Honors

Winner

Steamboat school : inspired by a true story : St. Louis, Missouri: 1847

Honors

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 2016

Books for Older Children
Books for Younger Children

Winner

Turning 15 on the road to freedom : my story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March

Honor

Full cicada moon

Winner

New shoes

Honors

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 2015

Books for Older Children
Books for Younger Children

Winner

The girl from the tar paper school : Barbara Rose Johns and the advent of the civil rights movement

Honors

Winner

Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation

Honors

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 2014

Books for Older Children
Books for Younger Children

Winner

Sugar

Honors

Winner

Brave girl : Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909

Honors

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 2013

Books for Older Children
Books for Younger Children

Winner

We've got a job : the 1963 Birmingham Children's March

Honors

Winner

Each kindness

Honors

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 2012

Books for Older Children
Books for Younger Children

Winner

Sylvia and Aki

Honors

Winner

The mangrove tree : planting trees to feed families

Honors

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 2011

Books for Older Children
Books for Younger Children

Winner

A long walk to water
Una larga travesía hasta el agua
Spanish translation
A long walk to water
E-book

Honors

Winner

Emma's poem : the voice of the Statue of Liberty

Honors

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 2010

Books for Older Children
Books for Younger Children

Winner

Marching for freedom : walk together, children, and don't you grow weary

Honors

Winner

Nasreen's secret school : a true story from Afghanistan

Honors

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 2009

Books for Older Children
Books for Younger Children

Winner

The surrender tree : poems of Cuba's struggle for freedom

Honors

Winner

Planting the trees of Kenya : the story of Wangari Maathai

Honors

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 2008

Books for Older Children
Books for Younger Children

Winner

We are one: the story of Bayard Rustin

Honors

Rickshaw girl
Elijah of Buxton
Birmingham, 1963

Winner

The escape of Oney Judge: Martha Washington's slave finds freedom

Honor

One thousand tracings : healing the wounds of World War II

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 2007

Books for Older Children
Books for Younger Children

Winner

Weedflower

Honors

Winner

A place where sunflowers grow

Honors

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 2006

Books for Older Children
Books for Younger Children

Winner

Let me play : the story of Title IX : the law that changed the future of girls in America

Honors

The crazy man
Sweetgrass basket

Winner

Delivering justice: W.W. Lar and the fight for Civil Rights

Honor

Poems to dream together = Poemas para soñar juntos

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 2005

Books for Older Children
Books for Younger Children

Winner

With courage and cloth : winning the fight for a woman's right to vote

Honors

The heaven shop

Winner

Sélavi, that is life : a Haitian story of hope

Honors

Hot day on Abbott Avenue
Henry and the kite dragon
Sequoyah : the Cherokee man who gave his people writing

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 2004

Winner

Out of bounds: seven stories of conflict and hope

Honor

Winner

Harvesting hope : the story of Cesar Chavez

Honors

Girl wonder: a baseball story in nine innings
Luba : the angel of Bergen-Belsen

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 2003

Books for Older Children
Picture Book

Winner

Parvana's journey

Honors

Winner

Patrol

Honors

Sí, se puede! = Yes, we can! : janitor strike in L.A.
The village that vanished

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 2002

Books for Older Children
Picture Book

Winner

The other side of truth

Honors

A group of one
True believer

Winner

Martin's big words : the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Honor

Amber was brave, Essie was smart : the story of Amber and Essie told here in poems and pictures

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 2001

Books for Older Children
Picture Book

Winner

Esperanza rising

Honors

The color of my words
Darkness over Denmark : the Danish resistance and the rescue of the Jews
Walking to the bus-rider blues

Winner

The composition

Honor

The yellow star : the legend of King Christian X of Denmark

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 2000

Books for Older Children
Picture Book

Winner

Through my eyes

Honors

Winner

Molly Bannaky

Honors

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1999

Books for Older Children
Picture Book

Winner

Bat 6

Honors

The heart of a chief
No more strangers now : young voices from a new South Africa
Restless spirit : the life and work of Dorothea Lange

Winner

Painted words; spoken memories

Honor

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1998

Books for Older Children
Picture Book

Winner

Habibi

Honors

Winner

Seven brave women

Honors

Celebrating families
Passage to freedom : the Sugihara story

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1997

Books for Older Children
Picture Book

Winner

Growing up in coal country

Honors

Behind the bedroom wall
Second daughter : the story of a slave girl

Winner

Wilma unlimited : how Wilma Rudolph became the world's fastest woman

Honor

The day Gogo went to vote

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1996

Winner

The well : David's story

Honors

From the notebooks of Melanin Sun
On the wings of peace: writers and illustrators speak out for peace in memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963

No titles selected

The middle passage : white ships/black cargo

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1995

Books for Older Children
Picture Book

Winner

Kids at work : Lewis Hine and the crusade against child labor

Honors

Winner

Sitti's secrets

Honor

Bein' with you this way

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1994

Books for Older Children
Picture Book

Winner

Freedom's children : young civil rights activists tell their own stories

Honor

Eleanor Roosevelt : a life of discovery

Winner

This land is my land

Honor

Soul looks back in wonder

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1993

Books for Older Children
Picture Book

Winner

Taste of salt : a story of modern Haiti

Honor

Letters from a slave girl : the story of Harriet Jacobs

Winner

Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the sky

Honor

Mrs. Katz and Tush

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1992

Winner

Journey of the sparrows

Honor

Now is your time! : the African-American struggle for freedom

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1991

Winner

The Big book for peace

Honors

The journey: Japanese-Americans, racism, and renewal
The middle of somewhere : a story of South Africa

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1990

Winner

A long hard journey : the story of the pullman porter

Honor

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1989

Winners

Anthony Burns : the defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave
Looking out

Honors

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1988

Winner

Waiting for the rain : a novel of South Africa

Honors

Nicolas, where have you been?
Trouble at the mines

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1987

Winner

Nobody wants a nuclear war

Honors

All in a day
Children of the Maya: a Guatemalan Indian odyssey

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1986

Winner

Ain't gonna study war no more: the story of America's peace seekers

Honor

Journey to the Soviet Union

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1985

Winner

The short life of Sophie Scholl

Honors

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1984

Winner

Rain of fire

Honor

No titles selected

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1983

Winner

Hiroshima no pika

Honors

The bomb
If I had a paka: poems in eleven languages

West Coast Honor Book

People at the edge of the world: the Ohlone of central California

Special Recognition

All the colors of the race : poems
Children as teachers of peace

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1982

Winner

A spirit to ride the whirlwind

Honors

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1981

Winner

First woman in Congress: Jeannette Rankin

Honors

Chase me, catch nobody!
Doing time: a look at crime and prisons
We are Mesquakie, we are one

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1980

Winner

The road from home : the story of an Armenian girl

West Coast Honor Book

Woman from Hiroshima

Special Recognition

Natural history

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1979

Winner

Many smokes, many moons: a chronology of American Indian history through Indian art

Honors

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1978

Winner

Child of the owl

Honors

Special Recognition

Amifika
The wheel of King Asoka

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1977

Winner

Never to forget : the Jews of the Holocaust

Honor

Roll of thunder, hear my cry

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1976

Winner

Paul Robeson

Honors

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1975

Winner

The princess and the admiral

Honors

The eye of conscience
My brother Sam is dead
My brother Sam is dead
Viva la raza! The struggle of the Mexican-American people

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1974

Winner

Nilda

Honors

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1973

Winner

Racism in America

Honor Book

The upstairs room

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1972

The tamarack tree

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1971

Jane Addams: Pioneer of social justice

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1970

The cay

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1969

The endless steppe; growing up in Siberia

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1968

The little fishes

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1967

Queenie Peavy

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1966

Berries Goodman

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1965

Meeting with a stranger

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1964

Profiles in courage

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1963

The monkey and the wild, wild wind

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1962

The road to Agra

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1961

What then, Raman?

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1960

Champions of peace ; winners of the nobel peace prize

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1959

No award given

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1958

The perilous road

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1957

Blue mystery

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1956

Story of the Negro

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1955

Rainbow round the world

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1954

Stick-in-the-mud

Jane Addams Children's Book Award 1953

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