Books in Jane Addams Children's Book Award - Book For Younger Children

The Jane Addams Children's Book Award is given annually to a children's book published the preceding year that advances the causes of peace and social equality.

2024

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington	Carole Boston Weatherford	Winner	Log In To Like
	That Flag	Tameka Fryer Brown	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Artivist	Nikkolas Smith	Honor	Log In To Like

2023

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement	Angela Joy	Winner	Log In To Like
	Ida B. Wells, Voice of Truth: Educator, Feminist, and Anti-Lynching Civil Rights Leader	Michelle Duster	Honor	Log In To Like
	Sanctuary: Kip Tiernan and Rosie's Place, the Nation's First Shelter for Women	Christine McDonnell	Honor	Log In To Like

2022

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Shirley Chisholm Dared: The Story of the First Black Woman in Congress	Alicia D. Williams	Winner	Log In To Like
	Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre	Carole Boston Weatherford	Honor	Log In To Like
	Runaway: The Daring Escape of Ona Judge	Ray Anthony Shepard	Honor	Log In To Like

2021

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	We Are Water Protectors	Carole Lindstrom	Winner	Log In To Like
	Ocean Speaks: How Marie Tharp Revealed The Ocean's Biggest Secret	Jess Keating	Honor	Log In To Like
	Black Is a Rainbow Color	Angela Joy	Honor	Log In To Like

2019

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Day You Begin	Jacqueline Woodson	Winner	Log In To Like
	The Day War Came	Nicola Davies	Honor	Log In To Like
	Julián Is a Mermaid	Jessica Love	Honor	Log In To Like

2018

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Malala's Magic Pencil	Malala Yousafzai	Winner	Log In To Like
	Before She Was Harriet	Lesa Cline-Ransome	Honor	Log In To Like

2017

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Steamboat School	Deborah Hopkinson	Winner	Log In To Like
	I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark	Debbie Levy	Honor	Log In To Like
	First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial	Susan E. Goodman	Honor	Log In To Like

2016

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	New Shoes	Susan Lynn Meyer	Winner	Log In To Like
	Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965	Jonah Winter	Honor	Log In To Like
	Mama's Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation	Edwidge Danticat	Honor	Log In To Like

2015

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and her family's fight for desegregation	Duncan Tonatiuh	Winner	Log In To Like
	Whispering Town	Jennifer Elvgren	Honor	Log In To Like
	Shooting at the Stars: The Christmas Truce of 1914	John Hendrix	Honor	Log In To Like

2014

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909	Michelle Markel	Winner	Log In To Like
	We Shall Overcome: The Story of a Song	Debbie Levy	Honor	Log In To Like
	Razia's Ray of Hope: One Girl's Dream of an Education	Elizabeth Suneby	Honor	Log In To Like

2013

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Each Kindness	Jacqueline Woodson	Winner	Log In To Like
	We March	Shane W. Evans	Honor	Log In To Like
	Dolores Huerta: A Hero to Migrant Workers	Sarah Warren	Honor	Log In To Like

2012

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families	Susan L. Roth	Winner	Log In To Like
	Belle, the Last Mule at Gee's Bend	Calvin Alexander Ramsey	Honor	Log In To Like
	Peaceful Pieces: Poems and Quilts about Peace	Anna Grossnickle Hines	Honor	Log In To Like

2011

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty	Linda Glaser	Winner	Log In To Like
	Ruth and the Green Book	Calvin Alexander Ramsey	Honor	Log In To Like
	Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down	Andrea Davis Pinkney	Honor	Log In To Like

2010

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Nasreen's Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan	Jeanette Winter	Winner	Log In To Like
	You and Me and Home Sweet Home	George Ella Lyon	Honor	Log In To Like
	Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp Stride	Andrea Davis Pinkney	Honor	Log In To Like

2009

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai	Claire A. Nivola	Winner	Log In To Like
	Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad	James Rumford	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Storyteller's Candle/La velita de los cuentos	Lucía M. González	Honor	Log In To Like

2008

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Escape of Oney Judge: Martha Washington's Slave Finds Freedom	Emily Arnold McCully	Winner	Log In To Like
	One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II	Lita Judge	Honor	Log In To Like

2007

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	A Place Where Sunflowers Grow	Amy Lee-Tai	Winner	Log In To Like
	Night Boat to Freedom	Margot Theis Raven	Honor	Log In To Like
	Crossing Bok Chitto	Tim Tingle	Honor	Log In To Like

2006

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Delivering Justice: W. W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights	James Haskins	Winner	Log In To Like
	Poems to Dream Together=Poemas Para Soñar Juntos	Francisco X. Alarcón	Honor	Log In To Like

2005

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Sélavi, That is Life: A Haitian Story of Hope	Youme Youme	Winner	Log In To Like
	Hot Day on Abbott Avenue	Carole Boston Weatherford	Honor	Log In To Like
	Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing	James Rumford	Honor	Log In To Like
	Henry and the Kite Dragon	Bruce Edward Hall and William Low	Honor	Log In To Like

2004

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez	Kathleen Krull	Winner	Log In To Like
	Luba: The Angel of Bergen-Belsen	Luba Tryszynska-Frederick	Honor	Log In To Like
	Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings	Deborah Hopkinson	Honor	Log In To Like

2003

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam	Walter Dean Myers	Winner	Log In To Like
	The Village That Vanished	Ann Grifalconi	Honor	Log In To Like
	¡Si, Se Puede! Yes We Can! Janitor Strike In L.A.	Diana Cohn	Honor	Log In To Like

2002

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Martin's Big Words: the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	Doreen Rappaport	Winner	Log In To Like
	Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart	Vera B. Williams	Honor	Log In To Like

2001

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Composition	Antonio Skármeta	Winner	Log In To Like
	The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark	Carmen Agra Deedy	Honor	Log In To Like

2000

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Molly Bannaky	Alice McGill	Winner	Log In To Like
	When Sophie Gets Angry -- Really, Really Angry...	Molly Bang	Honor	Log In To Like
	A Band of Angels: A Story Inspired written by the Jubilee Singers	Deborah Hopkinson	Honor	Log In To Like

1999

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Painted Words / Spoken Memories: Marianthe's Story	Aliki Brandenberg	Winner	Log In To Like
	This Land Is Your Land	Woody Guthrie	Honor	Log In To Like
	I See the Rhythm	Toyomi Igus	Honor	Log In To Like
	Hey, Little Ant	Phillip Hoose	Honor	Log In To Like

1998

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Seven Brave Women	Betsy Hearne	Winner	Log In To Like
	Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story	Ken Mochizuki	Honor	Log In To Like
	Celebrating Families	Rosmarie Hausherr	Honor	Log In To Like

1997

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Wilma Unlimited	Kathleen Krull	Winner	Log In To Like
	The Day Gogo Went to Vote	Elinor Batezat Sisulu	Honor	Log In To Like

1995

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Sitti's Secrets	Naomi Shihab Nye	Honor	Log In To Like
	Bein' with You This Way written	W. Nikola-Lisa	Honor	Log In To Like

1994

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	This Land Is My Land	George Littlechild	Winner	Log In To Like
	Soul Looks Back in Wonder	Various (edited by Phyllis Fogelman)	Honor	Log In To Like

1993

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky	Faith Ringgold	Winner	Log In To Like
	Mrs. Katz and Tush	Patricia Polacco	Honor	Log In To Like