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.
Winners and finalists
[edit]1990s
[edit]| Year | Book | Author | Illustrator | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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][better source needed] |
2000s
[edit]| Year | Book | Author | Illustrator | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks | Faith Ringgold | Winner | ||
| God Inside of Me | Della Reese | Vyonne Buchanan | Finalist | ||
| 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 | |
| Dancing in the Wings | Debbie Allen | Kadir Nelson | Finalist | ||
| 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 | [4][better source needed] |
| 2003 | Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales | Nelson Mandela | Winner | [5][better source needed] | |
| 2004 | My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | Christine King Farris | Chris K. Soentpiet | Winner | |
| The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Events that Shaped America) | Sabrina Crewe and Frank Walsh | Finalist | |||
| 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 | ||
| African Princess: The Amazing Lives of Africa's Royal Women | Joyce Hanson | Laurie McGaw | Finalist | ||
| 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 | |
| I Can Make a Difference | Marian Wright Edelman | Barry Moser | Finalist | ||
| 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 | Kadir Nelson | Winner | [6] |
| Dear Mr. Rosenwald | Carole Boston Weatherford | R. Gregory Christie | Finalist | [6][7] | |
| I Like You But I Love Me | Common | Lorraine West | |||
| Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'Round | Doreen Rappaport | Shane W. Evans | |||
| Whoopi's Big Book of Manners | Whoopi Goldberg | Olo | |||
| 2008 | Nothing but Trouble: The Story of Althea Gibson | Sue Stauffacher | Greg Couch | Winner | [8] |
| Friendship for Today | Patricia McKissack | Finalist | [9] | ||
| Elijah of Buxton | Christopher Paul Curtis | ||||
| Let It Shine | Ashley Bryan | ||||
| Young Pele | Lesa Cline-Ransome | James E. Ransome | |||
| 2009 | Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope | Nikki Grimes | Bryan Collier | Winner | |
| Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem | Maya Angelou | Finalist | [10] | ||
| Say a Little Prayer | Dionne Warwick, David Freeman Wooley, and Tonya Bolden | ||||
| We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball | Kadir Nelson | ||||
| You Can Do It! | Tony Dungy | Amy June Bates |
2010s
[edit]| Year | Book | Author | Illustrator | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Our Children Can Soar | Michelle Cook | Winner | [11] | |
| The Negro Speaks of Rivers | Langston Hughes | E. B. Lewis | Finalist | [12] | |
| Peeny Butter Fudge | Toni and Slade Morrison | Joe Cepeda | |||
| Sugar Plum Ballerinas: Toeshoe Trouble | Whoopi Goldberg | Maryn Roos | |||
| Child of the Civil Rights Movement | Paula Young Shelton and Raul Colon | ||||
| 2011 | My Brother Charlie | Holly Robinson Peete and Ryan Elizabeth Peete | Shane Evans | Winner | [13] |
| Grandma’s Gift | Eric Velásquez | Eric Velásquez | Finalist | ||
| Mama Miti: Wangai Maathai and the Tree of Kenya | Donna Jo Napoli | Kadir Nelson | |||
| Side by Side/Lado a Lado: The Story of Delores Huerta and Cesar Chavez | Monica Brown | Joe Cepeda | |||
| The Great Migration: Journey to the North | Eloise Greenfield | Jan Spivey Gilchrist | |||
| 2012 | You Can Be a Friend | Tony and Lauren Dungy | Winner | [14] | |
| Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band | Kwame Alexander | Tim Bowers | Finalist | [14] | |
| Before There Was Mozart | Lesa Cline-Ransome | James E. Ransome | |||
| Heart and Soul | Kadir Nelson | ||||
| White Water | Michael S. Bandy and Eric Stein | Shadra Strickland | |||
| 2013 | What Color is My World | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, with Raymond Obstfeld | A. G. Ford and
Ben Boos |
Winner | [15] |
| Fifty Cents and a Dream | Jabari Asim | Bryan Collier | Finalist | [15] | |
| Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills | Renée Watson | Christian Robinson | |||
| In the Land of Milk and Honey | Joyce Carol Thomas | Floyd Cooper | |||
| Indigo Blume and the Garden City | Kwame Alexander | JahSun Mitchell | |||
| 2014 | Nelson Mandela | Kadir Nelson | Winner | [16] | |
| I'm A Pretty Little Black Girl! | Betty K. Bynum | Claire Armstrong Parod | Finalist | [16] | |
| Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me | Daniel Beaty | Bryan Collier | |||
| Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song | Andrea Davis Pinkney | Brian Pinkney | |||
| You Never Heard of Willie Mays?! | Jonah Winter | Terry Widener | |||
| 2015 | Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Happily Ever After | Rachel Renée Russell | Winner | [17] | |
| Beautiful Moon: A Child's Prayer | Tonya Bolden | Eric Velásquez | Finalist | [17] | |
| Little Melba and Her Big Trombone | Katheryn Russell-Brown | Frank Morrison | |||
| Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up To Become Malcolm X | Ilyasah Shabazz | A. G. Ford | |||
| Searching for Sarah Rector | Tonya Bolden | ||||
| 2016 | Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America | Carole Boston Weatherford | Jamey Christoph | Winner | [18][19] |
| Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historical Facts | Nikki Grimes | Michele Wood | Finalist | [18] | |
| Granddaddy’s Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box | Michael S. Bandy and Eric Stein | James E. Ransome | |||
| If You Plant a Seed | Kadir Nelson | ||||
| New Shoes | Susan Lynn Meyer | Eric Velásquez | |||
| 2017 | Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas | Gwendolyn Hooks | Colin Bootman | Winner | [20] |
| A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of the Snowy Day | Andrea Davis Pinkney | Steve Johnson
and Lou Fancher |
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 | 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, with 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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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][25] |
| I Promise | LeBron James | Nina Mata | Finalist | [24][26] | |
| 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 | |||
| 2022 | Stacey’s Extraordinary Words | Stacey Abrams | Kitt Thomas | Winner | [27][28][29] |
| Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy | Misty Copeland | Salena Barnes | Finalist | [30] | |
| Change Sings | Amanda Gorman | Loren Long | |||
| Time for Bed, Old House | Janet Costa Bates | A. G. Ford | |||
| When Langston Dances | Kaija Langley | Keith Mallett | |||
| 2023 | Stacey’s Remarkable Books | Stacey Abrams | Kitt Thomas | Winner | [31][32] |
| Black Gold | Laura Obuobi | London Ladd | Finalist | [33] | |
| Ablaze with Color: A Story of Painter Alma Thomas | Jeanne Walker Harvey | Loveis Wise | |||
| The Year We Learned to Fly | Jacqueline Woodson | Rafael López | |||
| Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky | Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond | Daniel Minter | |||
| 2024 | Crowned: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora | Kahran and Regis Bethencourt | Rafael López | Winner | [34] |
| How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee | Carole Boston Weatherford | Frank Morrison | Finalist | [35] | |
| I Absolutely, Positively Love My Spots | Lid’ya C. Rivera | Nina Mata | |||
| Is This Love? | Cedella Marley | Alea Marley | |||
| Like Lava In My Veins | Derrick Barnes | Shawn Martinbrough |
Multiple wins and nominations
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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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