NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Children
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 | Illustrator | Result | Ref. |
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1996 | Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales and True Tales | Virginia Hamilton | Leo and Diane Dillon | Winner | [1] |
1999 | |||||
Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told by a Freeman of Color | Patricia McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack Jr. | James E. Ransome | Winner | [2] |
2000s[edit]
Year | Book | Author | Illustrator | Result | Ref. |
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2000 | If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks | Faith Ringgold | Winner | [3] | |
God Inside of Me | Della Reese | Vyonne Buchanan | Finalist | [3] | |
Happy to Be Nappy | bell hooks | Christopher Raschka | |||
The Day I Was Rich | Bill Cosby | Varnette P. Honeywood | |||
Through My Eyes | Ruby Bridges | ||||
2001 | Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children | Sandra Pinkney | Myles C. Pinkney (photos) | Winner | [4] |
Dancing in the Wings | Debbie Allen | Kadir Nelson | Finalist | [4] | |
Nikki Giovanni: Poet of the People | Judith Pinkerton Josephson | ||||
Teens Can Make It Happen | Stedman Graham | ||||
The Sound That Jazz Makes | Carole Boston Weatherford | Eric Velásquez | |||
2002 | Just the Two of Us | Will Smith | Kadir Nelson | Winner | [5] |
2003 | Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales | Nelson Mandela | Winner | [6] | |
2004 | My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | Christine King Farris | Chris K. Soentpiet | Winner | [7] |
The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Events that Shaped America) | Sabrina Crewe and Frank Walsh | Finalist | [7] | ||
God Created | Mark Bozzuti-Jones | Jui Ishida | |||
Li'l Dan, the Drummer Boy: A Civil War Story | Romare Bearden | ||||
Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? | Toni and Slade Morrison | Pascal Lemaître | |||
2005 | The 1963 Civil Rights March | Sabrina Crewe | Winner | [8] | |
African Princess: The Amazing Lives of Africa's Royal Women | Joyce Hanson | Laurie McGaw | Finalist | [8] | |
Ellington Was Not a Street | Ntozake Shange | Kadir Nelson | |||
Langston's Train Ride | Robert Burleigh | Leonard Jenkins | |||
Maya's World: Angelina of Italy | Maya Angelou | Lizzy Rockwell | |||
2006 | Girls Hold Up This World | Jada Pinkett Smith | Donyell Kennedy-Mccullough (photos) | Winner | [9] |
I Can Make a Difference | Marian Wright Edelman | Barry Moser | Finalist | [9] | |
The School Is Not White! A True Story of the Civil Rights Movement | Doreen Rappaport | Curtis James | |||
Honey Baby Sugar Child | Alice Faye Duncan | Susan Keeter | |||
Please, Puppy, Please | Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee | Kadir Nelson | |||
2007 | Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom | Carole Boston Weatherford | Winner | [10] | |
Dear Mr. Rosenwald | Carole Boston Weatherford | Finalist | [10] | ||
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 | Winner | [11] | |
Friendship for Today | Patricia McKissack | Finalist | [11] | ||
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 | Winner | [12] | |
Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem | Maya Angelou | Finalist | [12] | ||
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 | Winner | [13] | |
The Negro Speaks of Rivers | Langston Hughes | Finalist | [13] | ||
Peeny Butter Fudge | Toni Morrison | ||||
Sugar Plum Ballerinas: Toeshoe Trouble | Whoopi Goldberg | ||||
Child of the Civil Rights Movement | Paula Young Shelton |
2010s[edit]
Year | Book | Author | Illustrator | Result | Ref. |
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2011 | My Brother Charlie | Holly Robinson Peete | Winner | [14] | |
Grandma’s Gift | Eric Velásquez | Finalist | [14] | ||
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 | Winner | [15] | |
Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band | Kwame Alexander | Finalist | [15] | ||
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 | Winner | [16] | |
Fifty Cents and a Dream | Jabari Asim | Finalist | [16] | ||
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 | Winner | [17] | |
I'm A Pretty Little Black Girl! | Betty K. Bynum | Finalist | [17] | ||
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 | Winner | [18] | |
Beautiful Moon | Tonya Bolden | Finalist | [18] | ||
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone | Katheryn Russell-Brown, with Frank Morrison | ||||
Malcolm Little | Ilyasah Shabazz | ||||
Searching for Sarah Rector | Tonya Bolden | ||||
2016 | Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America | Carole Boston Weatherford | Winner | [19] | |
Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historical Facts | Nikki Grimes | Finalist | [19] | ||
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 | Winner | [20] | |
A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of the Snowy Day | Andrea Davis Pinkney | Finalist | [20] | ||
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 | Winner | [21] | |
Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld | Finalist | [21] | ||
Before She Was Harriet | Lesa Cline-Ransome | James E. Ransome | |||
Take a Picture of Me, James VanDerZee! | Andrea J. Loney | Keith Mallett | |||
The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, A Young Civil Rights Activist | Cynthia Levinson | Vanessa Brantley-Newton | |||
2019 | Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race | Margot Lee Shetterly | Laura Freeman | Winner | [22] |
Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, A Monumental American Man | Tonya Bolden | Finalist | [22] | ||
I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can't | Diane Dillon | ||||
The 5 O'Clock Band | Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews | Bryan Collier | |||
The Word Collector | Peter H. Reynolds |
2020s[edit]
Year | Book | Author | Illustrator | Result | Ref. |
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2020 | Sulwe | Lupita Nyong'o | Vashti Harrison | Winner | [23] |
A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation | Barry Wittenstein | Jerry Pinkney | Finalist | [23] | |
Hair Love | Matthew A. Cherry | Vashti Harrison | |||
Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment | Parker Curry and Jessica Curry | Brittany Jackson | |||
Ruby Finds a Worry | Tom Percival | ||||
2021 | She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm | Katheryn Russell-Brown | Eric Velásquez | Winner | [24] |
I Promise | LeBron James | Nina Mata | Finalist | [24] | |
Just Like a Mama | Alice Faye Duncan | Charnelle Pinkney Barlow | |||
Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice | Nikki Grimes | Laura Freeman | |||
The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver | Gene Barretta | Frank Morrison |
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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- ^ "2002 Image Award Winners". Infoplease. Retrieved May 11, 2016.
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- ^ a b Couch, Aaron; Washington, Arlene (February 22, 2014). "2014 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 11, 2016.
- ^ a b Washington, Arlene (February 6, 2015). "2015 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 11, 2016.
- ^ a b "2016 Image Winners". Variety. 6 February 2016. Retrieved May 11, 2016.
- ^ a b Lewis, Hilary; Washington, Arlene (February 10, 2017). "2017 Image Award Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 21, 2017.
- ^ a b "NAACP Image Awards: Full List of Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. 14 January 2018. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
- ^ a b "NAACP Awards: 'Black-ish,' 'Black Panther' Top Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter. 30 March 2019. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ a b Bosselman, Haley (March 28, 2021). "NAACP Image Awards 2021: The Complete Televised Winners List". Variety. Retrieved April 6, 2021.