This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in the children's literature category.
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1990s
Year
Book
Author
Ref
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
2010s
Year
Work
Author
Ref
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
Year
Work
Author
Ref
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
The following individuals received two or more Outstanding Literary Work, Children's Awards:
Wins
Author
2
Carole Boston Weatherford
2
Vashti Harrison
The following individuals received two or more Outstanding Literary Work, Children's nominations:
Nominations
Author
4
Kadir Nelson
Carole Boston Weatherford
3
Nikki Grimes
Vashti Harrison
2
Kwame Alexander
Maya Angelou
Michael S. Bandy
Tonya Bolden
Alice Faye Duncan
Tony Dungy
Whoopi Goldberg
Patricia McKissack
Andrea Davis Pinkney
Lesa Cline-Ransome
Doreen Rappaport
Katheryn Russell-Brown
References
^ "1996 Image Awards" . LA Times . April 8, 1996. Retrieved July 14, 2016 .
^ "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 .
Motion picture Television
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