Award Winning Childrens Books

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Hendrik Willem van Loon

Bernard Marshall

Annie Carroll Moore

Arthur Bowie Chrisman

Dhan Gopal Mukerji

Caroline Snedeker

Elizabeth Miller

Marion Hurd McNeely

Julia Davis Adams

Hildegarde Swift

Elizabeth Coatsworth

Julie Davis Adams

Elizabeth Janet Gray

Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen

Laura Adams Armer

Dorothy P. Lathrop

Eunice Tietjens

Eloise Lownsbery

Marjorie Hill Allee

Mary Gould Davis

Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

Hildegarde Swift

Caroline Snedeker

Elsie Singmaster

Elizabeth Seeger

Constance Rourke

Hilda van Stockum

Carol Ryrie Brink

Elizabeth Janet Gray

Armstrong Sperry

Ludwig Bemelmans

Margery Williams

Constance Rourke

James Cloyd Bowman

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Elizabeth Enright

Richard & Florence Atwater

Phyllis Crawford

Elizabeth Janet Gray

James Daugherty

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Stephen W. Meader

Armstrong Sperry

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Anna Gertrude Hall

Walter D. Edmonds

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Genevieve Foster

Elizabeth Gray Vining

Mabel Leigh Hunt

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Elizabeth Yates

Alice Dalgliesh

Genevieve Foster

Marguerite Henry

Florence Crannell Means

Christine Weston

Katherine Shippen

Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

Mary & Conrad Buff

William Maxwell

William Pène du Bois

Claire Huchet Bishop

Carolyn Treffinger

Catherine Besterman

Harold Courlander

Marguerite Henry

Marguerite Henry

Holling C. Holling

Ruth S. Gannett

Marguerite de Angeli

Rebecca Caudill

Catherine Coblentz

Rutherford Montgomery

Genevieve Foster

Walter & Marion Havighurst

Elizabeth Yates

Mabel Leigh Hunt

Clara Ingram Judson

Elizabeth Baity

Holling C. Holling

Nicholas Kalashnikoff

Mary & Conrad Buff

Ann Nolan Clark

Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Alice Dalgliesh

Genevieve Foster

Joseph Krumgold

Claire Huchet Bishop

Meindert DeJong

Meindert DeJong

Clara Ingram Judson

Mary & Conrad Buff

Meindert DeJong

Alice Dalgliesh

Jean Lee Latham

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Jennie Lindquist

Katherine Shippen

Virginia Sorensen

Meindert DeJong

Clara Ingram Judson

Marguerite de Angeli

Elizabeth Enright

Elizabeth George Speare

Natalie Savage Carlson

Meindert DeJong

William O. Steele

Joseph Krumgold

Jean Craighead George

Gerald W. Johnson

Gerald W. Johnson

Elizabeth George Speare

Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Madeleine L'Engle

Sorche Nic Leodhas

Olivia Coolidge

Emily Cheney Neville

Maia Wojciechowska

Elizabeth Borton de Treviño

Lloyd Alexander

Randall Jarrell

Isaac Bashevis Singer

E. L. Konigsburg

E. L. Konigsburg

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Lloyd Alexander

Isaac Bashevis Singer

William H. Armstrong

Sulamith Ish-Kishor

Janet Gaylord Moore

Natalie Babbitt

Robert C. O'Brien

Allan W. Eckert

Virginia Hamilton

Ursula K. Le Guin

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Jean Craighead George

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Virginia Hamilton

James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier

Elizabeth Marie Pope

Sharon Bell Mathis

Katherine Paterson

Jamake Highwater

Katherine Paterson

Katherine Paterson

Madeleine L'Engle

Paul Fleischman

Virginia Hamilton

Elizabeth George Speare

Patricia MacLachlan

Marion Dane Bauer

Patricia Lauber

Russell Freedman

Norma Fox Mazer

Paul Fleischman

Virginia Hamilton

Walter Dean Myers

Janet Taylor Lisle

Suzanne Fisher Staples

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Russell Freedman

Patricia McKissack

Walter Dean Myers

Jane Leslie Conly

Russell Freedman

Christopher Paul Curtis

E. L. Konigsburg

Megan Whalen Turner

Gail Carson Levine

Patricia Reilly Giff

Christopher Paul Curtis

Audrey Couloumbis

Jennifer L. Holm

Patricia Reilly Giff

Stephanie S. Tolan

Cynthia Kadohata

Gennifer Choldenko

Russell Freedman

Gary D. Schmidt

Lynne Rae Perkins

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Jacqueline Woodson

Jennifer L. Holm

Laura Amy Schlitz

Christopher Paul Curtis

Gary D. Schmidt

Jacqueline Woodson

Margarita Engle

Jacqueline Woodson

The Story of Mankind

The Great Quest

Cedric the Forester

The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure

The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

The Windy Hill

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

The Dark Frigate

Tales from Silver Lands

Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story

The Dream Coach

Shen of the Sea

The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery

Smoky the Cow Horse

Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon

The Wonder Smith and His Son

Downright Dencey

The Trumpeter of Krakow

Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo

Millions of Cats

The Boy Who Was

Clearing Weather

Runaway Papoose

Tod of the Fens

Hitty, Her First Hundred Years

A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland

Pran of Albania

Jumping-Off Place

The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales

Vaino, A Boy of New Finland

Little Blacknose: The Story of a Pioneer

The Cat Who Went to Heaven

Floating Island

The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess

Mountains are Free

Spice and the Devil's Cave

Meggy MacIntosh

Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes

Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer

Waterless Mountain

The Fairy Circus

Boy of the South Seas

Out of the Flame

Jane's Island

Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy

Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze

The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War

Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia

Invincible Louisa

The Forgotten Daughter

Swords of Steel

Winged Girl of Knossos

Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside

Glory of the Seas

Apprentice of Florence

Pageant of Chinese History

Davy Crockett

Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic

Caddie Woodlawn

Honk, the Moose

The Good Master

Young Walter Scott

All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud

Roller Skates

Phoebe Fairchild: Her Book

Whistler's Van

The Golden Basket

The Codfish Musket

The White Stag

Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time

Bright Island

On the Banks of Plum Creek

Thimble Summer

Mr. Popper's Penguins

Hello the Boat!

Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot

The Singing Tree

Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz

By the Shores of Silver Lake

Boy with a Pack

Call It Courage

Young Mac of Fort Vancouver

The Long Winter

The Matchlock Gun

Little Town on the Prairie

George Washington's World

Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison

Down Ryton Water

Adam of the Road

The Middle Moffat

Have You Seen Tom Thumb?

Johnny Tremain

These Happy Golden Years

Mountain Born

The Hundred Dresses

The Silver Pencil

Abraham Lincoln's World

Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams

Strawberry Girl

Justin Morgan Had a Horse

The Moved-Outers

Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear

New Found World

Wonderful Year

The Heavenly Tenants

The Avion My Uncle Flew

The Hidden Treasure of Glaston

The Twenty-One Balloons

Pancakes-Paris

Li Lun, Lad of Courage

The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot

The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories

Misty of Chincoteague

King of the Wind

Daughter of the Mountain

My Father's Dragon

Story of the Negro

The Door in the Wall

Tree of Freedom

The Blue Cat of Castle Town

George Washington

Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin

Amos Fortune, Free Man

Better Known as Johnny Appleseed

Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword

Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People

The Story of Appleby Capple

Americans Before Columbus

Minn of the Mississippi

The Light at Tern Rock

The Apple and the Arrow

Secret of the Andes

Charlotte's Web

Moccasin Trail

Red Sails to Capri

The Bears on Hemlock Mountain

'Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1

...And Now Miguel

Hurry Home, Candy

Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot

The Wheel on the School

The Courage of Sarah Noble

Banner in the Sky

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

The Secret River

The Golden Name Day

Men, Microscopes, and Living Things

Miracles on Maple Hill

The House of Sixty Fathers

Mr. Justice Holmes

The Corn Grows Ripe

Black Fox of Lorne

Rifles for Watie

The Horsecatcher

Gone-Away Lake

The Great Wheel

Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

The Family Under The Bridge

Along Came A Dog

Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa

The Perilous Road

My Side of the Mountain

America Is Born: A History for Peter

The Gammage Cup

Island of the Blue Dolphins

America Moves Forward: A History for Peter

The Cricket in Times Square

The Bronze Bow

Frontier Living

The Golden Goblet

Belling The Tiger

A Wrinkle in Time

Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland

Men of Athens

It's Like This, Cat

Shadow of a Bull

Across Five Aprils

I, Juan de Pareja

The Black Cauldron

The Animal Family

The Noonday Friends

Up a Road Slowly

The King's Fifth

Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth

The Black Pearl

The Fearsome Inn

The Egypt Game

The High King

To Be a Slave

When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories

The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art

Journey Outside

Summer of the Swans

Knee-Knock Rise

Enchantress From the Stars

Sing Down the Moon

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Incident At Hawk's Hill

The Planet of Junior Brown

The Tombs of Atuan

Annie and the Old One

The Headless Cupid

Julie of the Wolves

Frog and Toad Together

The Upstairs Room

The Witches of Worm

The Slave Dancer

The Dark Is Rising

M. C. Higgins, the Great

Figgs & Phantoms

My Brother Sam Is Dead

The Perilous Gard

Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe

The Grey King

The Hundred Penny Box

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Abel's Island

A String in the Harp

Bridge to Terabithia

Ramona and Her Father

'Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey

The Westing Game

The Great Gilly Hopkins

A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal

The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl

Jacob Have I Loved

The Fledgling

A Ring of Endless Light

A Visit to William Blake's Inn

Ramona Quimby, Age 8

Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944

The Blue Sword

Doctor De Soto

Graven Images

Homesick: My Own Story

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush

Dear Mr. Henshaw

The Sign of the Beaver

A Solitary Blue

Sugaring Time

The Wish Giver

The Hero and the Crown

Like Jake and Me

The Moves Make the Man

Sarah, Plain and Tall

Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun

The Whipping Boy

A Fine White Dust

Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens

Lincoln: A Photobiography

After the Rain

Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices

In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World

Number the Stars

Afternoon of the Elves

Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind

The Winter Room

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel

The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane

The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural

Somewhere in the Darkness

Dragon's Gate

Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery

Walk Two Moons

Catherine, Called Birdy

The Ear, the Eye and the Arm

The Midwife's Apprentice

What Jamie Saw

The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963

Yolonda's Genius

The Great Fire

The View from Saturday

A Girl Named Disaster

The Moorchild

Belle Prater's Boy

Out of the Dust

Ella Enchanted

Lily's Crossing

A Long Way from Chicago

Bud, Not Buddy

Getting Near to Baby

Our Only May Amelia

26 Fairmount Avenue

A Year Down Yonder

Hope Was Here

Because of Winn-Dixie

Joey Pigza Loses Control

A Single Shard

Everything on a Waffle

Carver: A Life In Poems

Crispin: The Cross of Lead

The House of the Scorpion

Pictures of Hollis Woods

A Corner of the Universe

Surviving the Applewhites

The Tale of Despereaux

Olive's Ocean

An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

Al Capone Does My Shirts

The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow

Princess Academy

The Higher Power of Lucky

Penny from Heaven

Hattie Big Sky

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village

Elijah of Buxton

The Wednesday Wars

The Graveyard Book

The Underneath

The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom

After Tupac & D Foster

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See also

- Caldecott Medal for outstanding American picture books
- Carnegie Medal in Literature for outstanding children's books published in the United Kingdom
- Coretta Scott King Award for outstanding children's books related to the African-American experience
- Guardian Award for works of children's literature written by British or Commonwealth authors
- Kate Greenaway Medal for outstanding works of illustration in children's literaure from the United Kingdom
- Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for outstanding lifetime contribution to children's literature

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