NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Children
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This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in the children's literature category.
1990s[edit]
Year | Book | Author | Ref |
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1996 | |||
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales and True Tales by Virginia Hamilton | Virginia Hamilton | [1] | |
1999 | |||
Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told by a Freeman of Color | Patricia McKissack | [2] |
2000s[edit]
Year | Work | Author | Ref |
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2000 | |||
If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks | Faith Ringgold | [3] | |
God Inside of Me | Della Reese | ||
Happy to Be Nappy | bell hooks | ||
The Day I Was Rich | Bill Cosby | ||
Through My Eyes | Ruby Bridges | ||
2001 | |||
Shades of Black | Sandra Pinkney | [4] | |
Dancing in the Wings | Debbie Allen | ||
Nikki Giovanni, Poet of the People | Judith Pinkerton Josephson | ||
Teens Can Make It Happen | Stedman Graham | ||
The Sound That Jazz Makes | Carole Boston Weatherford | ||
2002 | |||
Just the Two of Us | Will Smith (writer) and Kadir Nelson (illustrator) | [5] | |
2003 | |||
Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales | Nelson Mandela | [6] | |
2004 | |||
My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | Christine King Farris | [7] | |
The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Events that Shaped America) | Sabrina Crewe and Frank Walsh | ||
God Created | Mark Bozzuti-Jones | ||
Li'l Dan, the Drummer Boy: A Civil War Story | Romare Bearden | ||
Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? | Slade Morrison | ||
2005 | |||
The 1963 Civil Rights March | Sabrina Crewe and Scott Ingram | [8] | |
African Princess: The Amazing Lives of Africa's Royal Women | Joyce Hanson | ||
Ellington Was Not a Street | Ntozake Shange | ||
Langston's Train Ride | Robert Burleigh | ||
Maya's World: Angelina of Italy | Maya Angelou | ||
2006 | |||
Girls Hold Up This World | Jada Pinkett Smith | [9] | |
I Can Make a Difference | Marian Wright Edelman | ||
The School Is Not White! A True Story of the Civil Rights Movement | Doreen Rappaport | ||
Honey Baby Sugar Child | Alice Faye Duncan | ||
Please, Puppy, Please | Spike Lee | ||
2007 | |||
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom | Carole Boston Weatherford | [10] | |
Dear Mr. Rosenwald | Carole Boston Weatherford | ||
I Like You But I Love Me | Common | ||
Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'Round | Doreen Rappaport | ||
Whoopi's Big Book of Manners | Whoopi Goldberg | ||
2008 | |||
Nothing but Trouble: The Story of Althea Gibson | Sue Stauffacher | [11] | |
Friendship for Today | Patricia McKissack | ||
Elijah of Buxton | Christopher Paul Curtis | ||
Let It Shine | Ashley Bryan | ||
Young Pele | Lesa Cline-Ransome | ||
2009 | |||
Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope | Nikki Grimes | [12] | |
Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem | Maya Angelou | ||
Say a Little Prayer | Dionne Warwick | ||
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball | Kadir Nelson | ||
You Can Do It! | Tony Dungy | ||
2010 | |||
Our Children Can Soar | Michelle Cook | [13] | |
The Negro Speaks of Rivers | Langston Hughes | ||
Peeny Butter Fudge | Toni Morrison | ||
Sugar Plum Ballerinas: Toeshoe Trouble | Whoopi Goldberg | ||
Child of the Civil Rights Movement | Paula Young Shelton |
2010s[edit]
Year | Work | Author | Ref |
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2011 | |||
My Brother Charlie | Holly Robinson Peete | [14] | |
Grandma’s Gift | Eric Velasquez | ||
Mama Miti: Wangai Maathai and the Tree of Kenya | Donna Jo Napoli | ||
Side by Side/Lado a Lado: The Story of Delores Huerta and Cesar Chavez | Monica Brown | ||
The Great Migration: Journey to the North | Eloise Greenfield | ||
2012 | |||
You Can Be a Friend | Tony Dungy | [15] | |
Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band | Kwame Alexander | ||
Before There Was Mozart | Lesa Cline-Ransome | ||
Heart and Soul | Kadir Nelson | ||
White Water | Michael S. Bandy | ||
2013 | |||
What Color is My World | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | [16] | |
Fifty Cents and a Dream | Jabari Asim | ||
Harlem's Little Blackbird | Renee Watson | ||
In the Land of Milk and Honey | Joyce Carol Thomas | ||
Indigo Blume and the Garden City | Kwame Alexander | ||
2014 | |||
Nelson Mandela | Kadir Nelson | [17] | |
I'm A Pretty Little Black Girl! | Betty K. Bynum | ||
Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me | Daniel Beaty | ||
Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song | Andrea Davis Pinkney | ||
You Never Heard of Willie Mays?! | Jonah Winter | ||
2015 | |||
Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Happily Ever After | Rachel Renee Russell, Nikki Russell, and Erin Russell | [18] | |
Beautiful Moon | Tonya Bolden | ||
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone | Katheryn Russell-Brown | ||
Malcolm Little | Ilyasah Shabazz | ||
Searching for Sarah Rector | Tonya Bolden | ||
2016 | |||
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America | Carole Boston Weatherford | [19] | |
Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historical Facts | Nikki Grimes | ||
Granddaddy’s Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box | Michael S. Bandy | ||
If You Plant a Seed | Kadir Nelson | ||
New Shoes | Susan Lynn Meyer | ||
2017 | |||
Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas | Gwendolyn Hooks | [20] | |
A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of the Snowy Day | Andrea Davis Pinkney | ||
Daddy’s Little Girl | Karissa Culbreath | ||
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat | Javaka Steptoe | ||
The Golden Girls of Rio | Nikkolas Smith | ||
2018 | |||
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History | Vashti Harrison | [21] | |
Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld | ||
Before She Was Harriet | Lesa Cline-Ransome (Author), James E. Ransome (Illustrator) | ||
Take a Picture of Me, James VanDerZee! | Andrea J. Loney (Author), Keith Mallett (Illustrator) | ||
The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, A Young Civil Rights Activist | Cynthia Levinson (Author), Vanessa Brantley-Newton (Illustrator) | ||
2019 | |||
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race | Margot Lee Shetterly (Author), Laura Freeman (Illustrator) | [22] | |
Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, A Monumental American Man | Tonya Bolden | ||
I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can't | Diane Dillon | ||
The 5 O'Clock Band | Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews (Author), Bryan Collier (Illustrator) | ||
The Word Collector | Peter H. Reynolds |
2020s[edit]
Year | Work | Author | Ref |
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2020 | |||
Sulwe | Lupita Nyong'o (Author), Vashti Harrison (Illustrator) | [23] | |
A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation | Barry Wittenstein (Author), Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator) | ||
Hair Love | Matthew A. Cherry (Author), Vashti Harrison (Illustrator) | ||
Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment | Parker Curry (Author), Jessica Curry (Author), Brittany Jackson (Illustrator) | ||
Ruby Finds a Worry | Tom Percival | ||
2021 | |||
She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm | Katheryn Russell-Brown (Author), Eric Velasquez (Illustrator) | [24] | |
I Promise | LeBron James (Author), Nina Mata (Illustrator) | ||
Just Like a Mama | Alice Faye Duncan (Author), Charnelle Pinkney Barlow (Illustrator) | ||
Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice | Nikki Grimes (Author), Laura Freeman (Illustrator) | ||
The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver | Gene Barretta (Author), Frank Morrison (Illustrator) |
Multiple wins and nominations[edit]
The following individuals received two or more Outstanding Literary Work, Children's Awards:
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The following individuals received two or more Outstanding Literary Work, Children's nominations:
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References[edit]
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- ^ "1999 Image Award Winners". Infoplease. Retrieved May 11, 2016.
- ^ "2000 Image Award Winners". Awardsandwinners. Retrieved July 14, 2016.
- ^ "2001 Image Award Winners". Awardsandwinners. Retrieved July 14, 2016.
- ^ "2002 Image Award Winners". Infoplease. Retrieved May 11, 2016.
- ^ "2003 Image Award Winners". Infoplease. Retrieved May 11, 2016.
- ^ "2004 Image Award Winners". Awardsandwinners. Retrieved July 14, 2016.
- ^ "2005 Image Award Winners". Awardsandwinners. Retrieved July 14, 2016.
- ^ "2006 Image Award Winners". Awardsandwinners. Retrieved July 14, 2016.
- ^ "2007 Image Award Winners". Awardsandwinners. Retrieved July 14, 2016.
- ^ "2008 Image Award Winners". Awardsandwinners. Retrieved July 14, 2016.
- ^ "2009 Image Award Winners". Awardsandwinners. Retrieved July 14, 2016.
- ^ "2010 Image Award Winners". Awardsandwinners. Retrieved August 30, 2016.
- ^ "2011 Image Award Winners". Awardsandwinners. Retrieved August 30, 2016.
- ^ Allin, Olivia. "2012 Image Award Winners". ABC7. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
- ^ Couch, Aaron (February 1, 2013). "2013 Image Award Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 11, 2016.
- ^ Couch, Aaron; Washington, Arlene (February 22, 2014). "2014 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 11, 2016.
- ^ Washington, Arlene (February 6, 2015). "2015 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 11, 2016.
- ^ "2016 Image Winners". Variety. 6 February 2016. Retrieved May 11, 2016.
- ^ Lewis, Hilary; Washington, Arlene (February 10, 2017). "2017 Image Award Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 21, 2017.
- ^ "NAACP Image Awards: Full List of Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. 14 January 2018. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
- ^ "NAACP Awards: 'Black-ish,' 'Black Panther' Top Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter. 30 March 2019. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
- ^ "NAACP Image Awards: Lizzo Named Entertainer of the Year; 'Just Mercy,' 'Black-ish' Among Top Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. 22 February 2020. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
- ^ Bosselman, Haley (March 28, 2021). "NAACP Image Awards 2021: The Complete Televised Winners List". Variety. Retrieved April 6, 2021.