Children's Book Committee award winners from 1943-2012.
Josette Frank Award
Bluefish
by Pat Schmatz
(Candlewick)
Flora Stieglitz Straus Award
For younger readers:
Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade
by Melissa Sweet
(Houghton Mifflin/HMH)
For older readers:
Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy
by Albert Marrin
(Knopf/Random House)
Claudia Lewis Award
For younger readers:
Emma Dilemma: Big Sister Poems
by Kristine O'Connell George, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter
(Clarion/HMH)
For older readers:
The Watch That Ends the Night
by Allan Wolf
(Candlewick)
Josette Frank Award
Out of My Mind
by Sharon Draper
(Athenaeum)
Flora Stieglitz Straus Award
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney
(Little, Brown)
Claudia Lewis Award
Guyku: A Year of Haiku for Boys
by Bob Raczka, illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds
(Houghton Mifflin)
Josette Frank Award
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
by Jacqueline Kelly
(Henry Holt)
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Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
by Grace Lin
(Little, Brown)
Flora Stieglitz Straus Award
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
by Tanya Lee Stone
(Candlewick)
-- and --
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
by Brian Floca
(Richard Jackson/ S&S)
Claudia Lewis Award
Red Sings from the Treetops: A Year in Colors
by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski
(Houghton Mifflin)
Josette Frank Award
After Tupac & D Foster
by Jacqueline Woodson
(G.P. Putnam's Sons)
Flora Stieglitz Straus Award
The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary
by Candace Fleming
(Schwartz & Wade)
Claudia Lewis Award
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
by Margarita Engle
(Henry Holt)
Josette Frank Award
Home of the Brave
by Katherine Applegate
(Fiewel and Friends)
Flora Stieglitz Straus Award
Ballerina Dreams
by Lauren Thompson, photos by James Estrin
(Fiewel and Friends)
-- and --
Who Was First?: Discovering the Americas
by Russell Freedman
(Holiday)
Claudia Lewis Award
Here's a Little Poem: A Very First Book of Poetry
collected by Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters, illustrated by Polly Dunbar
(Candlewick)
-- and --
This is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness
by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Pamela Zagaenski
(Houghton Mifflin)
Josette Frank Award
Clementine
by Sara Pennypacker, illustrated by Marla Frazee
(Hyperion Books for Children)
-- and --
The Manny Files
by Christian Burch
(Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
Flora Stieglitz Straus Award
Freedom Walkers:The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
by Russell Freedman
(Holiday House)
Josette Frank Award
each little bird that sings
by Deborah Wiles
(Gulliver Books, Harcourt, Inc.)
Flora Stieglitz Straus Award
Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes
by Pamela S. Turner
(Houghton Mifflin Company)
Claudia Lewis Award
A Kick In The Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms
selected by Paul B. Janeczko
illustrated by Chris Raschka
(Candlewick Press)
Josette Frank Award
Ida B: and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World
by Katherine Hannigan
(Greenwillow Books, HarperCollins Publishers)
Flora Stieglitz Straus Award
The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq
written and illustrated by Jeanette Winter
(Harcourt)
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
by Phillip Hoose
(FSG)
Claudia Lewis Award
Here in Harlem: poems in many voices
by Walter Dean Myers
(Holiday House)
Hummingbird Nest: A Journal of Poems
by Kristine O'Connell George
illustrated by Barry Moser
(Tricycle Press)
Josette Frank Award
The Goose Girl
by Shannon Hale
(Bloomsbury USA Children's Books)
Claudia Lewis Award
The Way a Door Closes
by Hope Anita Smith, ill. by Shane W. Evans
(Henry Holt Books for Young Readers)
Yesterday I Had the Blues
by Jeron Ashford Frame, ill. by R. Gregory Christie
(Tricycle Press)
Flora Stieglitz Straus Award
Hana's Suitcase
by Karen Levine
(Albert Whitman & Co.)
A Lifetime Achievement Award
Karla Kuskin
as exhibited in a collection of her work,
Moon, Have You Met My Mother?
(Laura Geringer Books, an imprint of HarperCollins)
Josette Frank Award
Goddess of Yesterday
by Caroline B. Cooney
(Delacorte Press)
Jericho Walls
by Kristi Collier
(Henry Holt & Co.)
Claudia Lewis Award
Little Dog and Duncan
by Kristine O'Connell George, ill. by June Otani
(Clarion Books)
Flora Stieglitz Straus Award
No More! Stories and Songs of Slave Resistance
by Doreen Rappaport, ill. by Shane W. Evans
(Candlewick Press)
When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson
by Pam Muñoz Ryan , ill. by Brian Selznick
(Scholastic Press)
Josette Frank Award
Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart
Vera B. Williams
(Greenwillow Books, HarperCollins Publishers)
Flora Stieglitz Straus Award
Carver: a life in poems
by Marilyn Nelson
(Front Street Books)
Claudia Lewis Award
Love That Dog
by Sharon Creech
(Joanna Cotler Books, HarperCollins Publishers)
Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart
Vera B. Williams
(Greenwillow Books, HarperCollins Publishers)
Josette Frank Award
Because of Winn-Dixie
by Kate DiCamillo
(Candlewick)
Flora Stieglitz Straus Award
Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
by Dennis Brindell Fradin and Judith Bloom Fradin
(Clarion)
Claudia Lewis Award
Mammalabilia
by Douglas Florian
(Harcourt)
Josette Frank Award
Figuring Out Frances
(Gina Willner-Pardo-Clarion Books)
Flora Stieglitz Straus Award
Through My Eyes
by Ruby Bridges
(Scholastic Books)
Claudia Lewis Award
Stop Pretending
by Sonya Sones
(HarperCollins)
Josette Frank Award
My Louisiana Sky
by Kimberly Willis Holt
(Henry Holt & Co.)
Flora Stieglitz Straus Award
Iqbal Masih and the Crusaders Against Child Slavery
by Susan Kuklin
(Henry Holt & Co.)
Claudia Lewis Award
I, Too, Sing America
by Catherine Clinton
(Houghton Mifflin)
Josette Frank Award
No Turning Back: A Novel of South Africa
by Beverley Naidoo
(HarperCollins)
Wringer
by Jerry Spinelli
(HarperCollins)
Flora Stieglitz Straus Award
Oh, Freedom! Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement With the People Who Made It Happen
by Casey King & Linda Barrett Osborne
(Knopf)
Claudia Lewis Award
The Invisible Ladder: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poems for Young Readers
edited by Liz Rosenberg
(Henry Holt & Co.)
The Cuckoo's Child
by Suzanne Freeman
(Greenwillow Books)
Music from a Place Called Half Moon
by Jerrie Oughton
(Houghton Mifflin)
The Watsons Go to Birmingham
by Christopher Paul Curtis
(Delacorte)
Flora Stieglitz Straus Award
Parallel Journeys
by Eleanor Ayer
(Atheneum)
Earthshine
by Theresa Nelson
(Orchard)
Make Lemonade
by Virginia Euwer Wolff
(Henry Holt & Co.)
Flora Stieglitz Straus Award
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery
by Russell Freedman
(Clarion Books)
Blue Skin of the Sea
by Graham Salisbury
(Delacorte)
Shadow Boy
by Susan E. Kirby
(Orchard)
Secret City, USA
by Felice Holman
(Scribner's)
Shades of Gray
by Carolyn Reeder
(Macmillan)
The Most Beautiful Place in the World
by Ann Cameron
(Knopf)
December Stillness
by Mary Downing Hahn
(Clarion)
Rabble Starkey
by Lois Lowry
(Houghton Mifflin)
Journey to Jo'burg
by Beverley Naidoo
(Lippincott)
With Westie and the Tin Man
by C.S. Adler
(Macmillan)
Special Citation
Ain't Gonna Study War No More
by Milton Meltzer
(Harper & Row)
One-Eyed Cat
by Paula Fox
(Bradbury)
The Sign of the Beaver
by Elizabeth George Speare
(Houghton Mifflin)
The Solomon System
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
(Atheneum)
Homesick: My Own Story
by Jean Fritz
(Putnam)
A Spirit to Ride the Whirlwind
by Athena Lord
(Macmillan)
A Boat to Nowhere
by Maureen C. Wartski
(Westminster)
The Whipman is Watching
by T.A. Dyer
(Houghton Mifflin)
The Devil in Vienna
by Doris Orgel
(Dial)
The Pinballs
by Betsy Byars
(Harper)
Somebody Else's Child
by Roberta Silman
(Warne)
The Garden is Doing Fine
by Carol Farley
(Atheneum)
Luke Was There
by Eleanor Clymer
(Holt/Rinehart & Winston)
A Taste of Blackberries
by Doris Buchanan Smith
(T.Y. Crowell)
A Sound of Chariots
Mollie Hunter
(Harper)
John Henry McCoy
by Lillie D. Chafin
(Macmillan)
Special Citation
The Pair of Shoes
by Aline Glasgow
(Dial)
Rock Star
by James Lincoln Collier
(Four Winds)
Migrant Girl
by Carli Laklan
(McGraw-Hill)
The Empty Moat
by Margaretha Shemin
(Coward-McCann)
What It's All About
by Vadim Frolov
(Doubleday)
Special Citation
Where Is Daddy? The Story About Divorce
by Beth Goff
(Beacon)
The Contender
by Robert Lipsyte
(Harper)
Queenie Peavy
by Robert Burch
(Viking)
Special Citation
Curious George Goes to the Hospital
by Margaret and H.A. Rey
(Houghton Mifflin)
The Empty Schoolhouse
by Natalie Savage Carlson
(Harper)
The High Pasture
by Ruth Harnden
(Houghton Mifflin)
The Peaceable Revolution
by Betty Schechter
(Houghton Mifflin)
The Rock and the Willow
by Mildred Lee
(Lothrop, Lee & Shepard)
The Trouble With Terry
by John Lexau
(Dial)
The Road to Agra
by Aimee Sommerfelt
(Criterion)
The Girl From Puerto Rico
by Hila Colman
(Morrow)
Janine
by Robin McKown
(Messner)
Jennifer
by Zoa Sherburne
(Morrow)
South Town
by Lorenz Graham
(Follett)
Shadow Across the Campus
by Helen R Sattler
(Dodd Mead)
The House of Sixty Fathers
by Meindert de Jong
(Harper)
Plain Girl
by Virginia Sorenson
(Harcourt Brace & World)
Crow Boy
by Taro Yashima
(Viking)
The Ordeal of the Young Hunter
by Jonreed Lauritzen
(Little Brown)
High Road Home
by William Corbin
(Coward-McCann)
In a Mirror
by Mary Stolz
(Harper)
Jareb
by Miriam Powell
(T.Y. Crowell)
Twenty and Ten
by Claire Huchet Bishop
(Viking)
No Award
Partners: The United Nations and Youth
by Eleanor Roosevelt & Helen Ferris
(Doubleday)
Paul Tiber: Forester
by Maria Gleit
(Scribner)
The Big Wave
by Pearl Buck
(John Day)
Judy's Journey
by Lois Lenski
(Lippincott)
Heart of Danger
by Howard Pease
(Doubleday)
The Moved-Outers
by Florence Cranell Means
(Houghton Mifflin)
The House
by Margorie Hill Alee
(Houghton Mifflin)
Keystone Kids
by John R Tunis
(Harcourt, Brace & World)
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