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
1990s +Award winners and finalists, 1996, 1999 Year Book Author IllustratorResult 1996 Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales and True Tales Winner 1999 Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told by a Freeman of Color and Fredrick L. McKissack Jr. Winner
2000s +Award winners and finalists, 2000-2009 Year Book Author IllustratorResult 2000 If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks Winner God Inside of Me Finalist Happy to Be Nappy Through My Eyes 2001 Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children (photos)Winner Dancing in the Wings Finalist Nikki Giovanni: Poet of the People Teens Can Make It Happen 2002 Just the Two of Us Winner 2003 Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales Winner 2004 My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Winner The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Events that Shaped America) and Frank WalshFinalist God Created Li'l Dan, the Drummer Boy: A Civil War Story Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? 2005 Winner African Princess: The Amazing Lives of Africa's Royal Women Finalist Ellington Was Not a Street Langston's Train Ride Maya's World: Angelina of Italy 2006 Girls Hold Up This World (photos)Winner I Can Make a Difference Finalist Honey Baby Sugar Child Please, Puppy, Please and Tonya Lewis Lee2007 Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom Winner Dear Mr. Rosenwald Finalist I Like You But I Love Me Common Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'Round Whoopi's Big Book of Manners Olo2008 Nothing but Trouble: The Story of Althea Gibson Winner Friendship for Today Finalist Elijah of Buxton Let It Shine Young Pele 2009 Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope Winner Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem Finalist Say a Little Prayer , David Freeman Wooley, and Tonya Bolden We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball You Can Do It!
2010s +Award winners and finalists, 2010-2019 Year Book Author IllustratorResult 2010Our Children Can SoarWinnerFinalistPeeny Butter FudgeSugar Plum Ballerinas: Toeshoe TroubleChild of the Civil Rights Movement and Raul Colon2011 My Brother Charlie Holly Robinson Peete and Ryan Elizabeth PeeteWinner Grandma’s Gift Finalist Mama Miti: Wangai Maathai and the Tree of Kenya Side by Side/Lado a Lado: The Story of Delores Huerta and Cesar Chavez 2012 You Can Be a Friend Winner Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band Finalist Before There Was Mozart Heart and Soul White Water and Eric Stein 2013 What Color is My World , with Raymond Obstfeld and Ben BoosWinner Fifty Cents and a Dream Finalist Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills In the Land of Milk and Honey Indigo Blume and the Garden City 2014 Nelson Mandela Winner I'm A Pretty Little Black Girl! Finalist Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song You Never Heard of Willie Mays?! 2015 Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Happily Ever After Winner Beautiful Moon: A Child's Prayer Finalist Little Melba and Her Big Trombone Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up To Become Malcolm X Searching for Sarah Rector 2016 Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America Winner Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historical Facts Finalist Granddaddy’s Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box and Eric Stein If You Plant a Seed New Shoes 2017 Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas Winner and Lou FancherFinalist Daddy’s Little Girl Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat 2018Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black HistoryWinnerBecoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court, with Raymond Obstfeld FinalistBefore She Was Harriet Take a Picture of Me, James VanDerZee! 2019Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space RaceWinnerFacing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, A Monumental American ManFinalistI Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can'tDiane Dillon Peter H. Reynolds
2020s +Award winners and finalists, 2020-present Year Book Author IllustratorResult 2020SulweWinnerA Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a NationFinalistHair LoveParker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment and Jessica CurryRuby Finds a Worry2021 She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm Winner I Promise Finalist Just Like a Mama Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver 2022Stacey’s Extraordinary WordsWinnerBlack Ballerinas: My Journey to Our LegacyFinalistChange SingsTime for Bed, Old HouseWhen Langston Dances2023Stacey’s Remarkable Books WinnerBlack GoldFinalistAblaze with Color: A Story of Painter Alma Thomas Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky 2024Crowned: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the DiasporaWinnerHow Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling BeeFinalistI Absolutely, Positively Love My SpotsIs This Love?Like Lava In My Veins
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 Harrison2 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
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