National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Annual literary award in the United States
National Book Award for Young People's Literature Awarded for Outstanding work of Young People's Literature by U.S. citizens. Location New York City Reward(s) $10,000 USD (winner) $1,000 USD (finalists) First awarded 1967–1983, 1996 Website National Book Foundation
The National Book Award for Young People's Literature is one of five annual National Book Awards , which are given by the National Book Foundation (NBF) to recognize outstanding literary work by US citizens. They are awards "by writers to writers".[ 1] The judging panel are five "writers who are known to be doing great work in their genre or field".[ 2]
The category Young People's Literature was established in 1996. From 1969 to 1983, prior to the Foundation, there were some "Children's" categories.[ 3]
The award recognizes one book written by a US citizen and published in the US from December 1 of the previous year to November 30 in the award year. The National Book Foundation accepts nominations from publishers until June 15, requires mailing nominated books to the panelists by August 1, and announces five finalists in October. The winner is announced on the day of the final ceremony in November. The award is $10,000 and a bronze sculpture; other finalists get $1000, a medal, and a citation written by the panel.[ 4] [ a]
There were 230 books nominated for the 2010 award.[ 5] This had risen to 333 submissions by 2024.[ 6]
Finalists
Children's books, 1969 to 1979
Books for "children" were first recognized by the National Book Awards in 1969 (publication year 1968). Through 1979, a single award category existed, called either "Children's Literature" or "Children's Books."[ 7]
Children's books, 1980 to 1983
In 1980 under the new name The American Book Awards (TABA), the number of literary award categories jumped to 28, including two for Children's Books: hardcover and paperback. In the following three years there were three, five, and five Children's Book award categories—thus fifteen in four years—before the program was revamped with only three annual awards and none for children's books.[ 20]
Children's Books winners and finalists, 1980 to 1983
Year
Category
Author
Title
Result
Ref.
1980
Hardcover
Joan Blos
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830–82
Winner
[ 21]
David Kherdian
The Road from Home
Finalist
[ 21]
E. L. Konigsburg
Throwing Shadows
Ouida Sebestyen
Words by Heart
Paperback
Madeleine L'Engle
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Winner
[ 21]
Myron Levoy
Alan and Naomi
Finalist
[ 21]
Arnold Lobel
Frog and Toad Are Friends
Maurice Sendak
Higglety Pigglety Pop!: Or There Must Be More to Life
Katherine Paterson
The Great Gilly Hopkins
1981
Fiction, hardcover
Betsy Byars
The Night Swimmers
Winner
[ 22]
Paula Fox
A Place Apart
Finalist
[ 22]
Ouida Sebestyen
Far From Home
Katherine Paterson
Jacob Have I Loved
Jan Slepian
The Alfred Summer
Fiction, paperback
Beverly Cleary
Ramona and Her Mother
Winner
[ 22]
Sue Ellen Bridgers
All Together Now
Finalist
[ 22]
S. E. Hinton
Tex
Lloyd Alexander
The High King
Ellen Raskin
The Westing Game
Nonfiction
Alison Cragin Herzig and Jane Lawrence Mali
Oh, Boy! Babies
Winner
[ 22]
Milton Meltzer
All Time, All Peoples: A World History of Slavery
Finalist
[ 22]
Peter Spier
People
William Jaspersohn
The Ballpark
Jean Fritz
Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus?
1982
Fiction, hardcover
Lloyd Alexander
Westmark
Winner
[ 23]
Cynthia Voigt
Homecoming
Finalist
[ 23]
Mildred D. Taylor
Let the Circle Be Unbroken
Beverly Cleary
Ramona Quimby, Age 8
Deborah Hautzig
Second Star to the Right
Fiction, paperback
Ouida Sebestyen
Words by Heart
Winner
[ 23]
Katherine Paterson
Jacob Have I Loved
Finalist
[ 23]
Katherine Paterson
The Master Puppeteer
Lloyd Alexander
The Wizard in the Tree
Nonfiction
Susan Bonners
A Penguin Year
Winner
[ 23]
Melvin B. Zisfein with Robert Parker (illus.) '
Flight: A Panorama of Aviation
Finalist
[ 23]
Patricia Lauber with James Wexler (photos)
Seeds: Pop, Stick and Glide
James Howe with Mal Warshaw (photos)
The Hospital Book
Jean Fritz
Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold
1983
Fiction, hardcover[ b]
Jean Fritz
Homesick: My Own Story
Winner
[ 24]
Zibby Oneal
A Formal Feeling
Finalist
[ 24]
Virginia Hamilton
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
Lloyd Alexander
The Kestrel
Edward Fenton
The Refugee Summer
Fiction, paperback
Paula Fox
A Place Apart
Winner (tie)
[ 24]
Joyce Carol Thomas
Marked by Fire (original )[ c]
Lois Lowry
Anastasia Again!
Finalist
[ 24]
Sue Ellen Bridgers
Notes for Another Life
Judy Blume
Tiger Eyes
Nonfiction
James Cross Giblin
Chimney Sweeps
Winner
[ 24]
Patricia Lauber
Journey to the Planets
Finalist
[ 24]
John Nance
Lobo of the Tasaday
Linda Grant DePauw
Seafaring Women
Judith St. George
The Brooklyn Bridge
Picture books, hardcover
William Steig
Doctor De Soto
Winner (tie)
[ 24]
Barbara Cooney
Miss Rumphius
Marcia Brown (Illus.)
Shadow (translation of a poem by Blaise Cendrars )
Finalist
[ 24]
Karla Kuskin and Marc Simont (illus.)
The Philharmonic Gets Dressed
Cynthia Rylant and Diane Goode (illus.)
When I Was Young in the Mountains
Picture books, paper
Mary Ann Hoberman with Betty Fraser (illus.)
A House is a House for Me
Winner
[ 24]
Peter Koeppen (Illus.)
A Swinger of Birches (poems by Robert Frost )
Finalist
[ 24]
Steven Kellogg
Pinkerton, Behave!
Edward Marshall
Space Case
Ellen Shire
The Bungling Ballerinas (original)
Young people's literature, 1996 to date
From 1984 to 1995, the National Book Foundation did not present awards for young people's literature.[ 25]
Young People's Literature, 1996 to date
Year
Author
Title
Result
Ref.
1996
Victor Martinez
Parrot in the Oven, Mi Vida
Winner
[ 26]
Nancy Farmer
A Girl Named Disaster
Finalist
[ 26]
Han Nolan
Send Me Down a Miracle
Helen Kim
The Long Season of Rain
Carolyn Coman
What Jamie Saw
1997
Han Nolan
Dancing on the Edge
Winner
[ 27]
Tor Seidler
Mean Margaret
Finalist
[ 27]
Adele Griffin
Sons of Liberty
Brock Cole
The Facts Speak for Themselves
Mary Ann McGuigan
Where You Belong
1998
Louis Sachar
Holes
Winner
[ 28]
Richard Peck
A Long Way from Chicago
Finalist
[ 28]
Jack Gantos
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
Anita Lobel
No Pretty Pictures
Ann Cameron
The Secret Life of Amanda K. Woods
1999
Kimberly Willis Holt
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
Winner
[ 29]
Walter Dean Myers
Monster
Finalist
[ 29]
Laurie Halse Anderson
Speak
Louise Erdrich
The Birchbark House
Polly Horvath
The Trolls
2000
Gloria Whelan
Homeless Bird
Winner
[ 30]
Adam Bagdasarian
Forgotten Fire
Finalist
[ 30]
Jerry Stanley
Hurry Freedom: African Americans in Gold Rush California
Carolyn Coman
Many Stones
Michael Cadnum
The Book of the Lion
2001
Virginia Euwer Wolff
True Believer
Winner
[ 31]
Marilyn Nelson
Carver: A Life in Poems
Finalist
[ 31]
An Na
A Step From Heaven
Kate DiCamillo
The Tiger Rising
Phillip Hoose
We Were There Too! Young People in U.S. History
2002
Nancy Farmer
The House of the Scorpion
Winner
[ 32]
Naomi Shihab Nye
19 Varieties of Gazelle : Poems of the Middle East
Finalist
[ 32]
M. T. Anderson
Feed
Jacqueline Woodson
Hush
Elizabeth Partridge
This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie
2003
Polly Horvath
The Canning Season
Winner
[ 33]
Jim Murphy
An American Plague : The Time and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (about the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 )
Finalist
[ 33]
Paul Fleischman
Breakout
Jacqueline Woodson
Locomotion
Richard Peck
The River Between Us
2004
Pete Hautman
Godless
Winner
[ 34]
Laban Carrick Hill
Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance (about the Harlem Renaissance )
Finalist
[ 34]
Deb Caletti
Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
Julie Anne Peters
Luna: A Novel
Shelia P. Moses
The Legend of Buddy Bush
2005
Jeanne Birdsall
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
Winner
[ 35]
Walter Dean Myers
Autobiography of My Dead Brother
Finalist
[ 35]
Deborah Wiles
Each Little Bird That Sings
Chris Lynch
Inexcusable
Adele Griffin
Where I Want to Be
2006
M. T. Anderson
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party
Winner
[ 36]
Gene Luen Yang
American Born Chinese
Finalist
[ 36]
Martine Leavitt
Keturah and Lord Death
Patricia McCormick
Sold
Nancy Werlin
The Rules of Survival
2007
Sherman Alexie
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Winner
[ 37]
Kathleen Duey
Skin Hunger: A Resurrection of Magic
Finalist
[ 37]
Sara Zarr
Story of a Girl
Brian Selznick
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
M. Sindy Felin
Touching Snow
2008
Judy Blundell
What I Saw and How I Lied
Winner
[ 38]
Laurie Halse Anderson
Chains
Finalist
[ 38]
E. Lockhart
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Tim Tharp
The Spectacular Now
Kathi Appelt
The Underneath
2009
Phillip Hoose
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Winner
[ 39]
Deborah Heiligman
Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
Finalist
[ 39]
Rita Williams-Garcia
Jumped
Laini Taylor
Lips Touch, Three Times
David Small
Stitches
2010
Kathryn Erskine
Mockingbird
Winner
[ 40]
Laura McNeal
Dark Water
Finalist
[ 40]
Walter Dean Myers
Lockdown
Rita Williams-Garcia
One Crazy Summer
Paolo Bacigalupi
Ship Breaker
2011
Thanhha Lai
Inside Out & Back Again
Winner
[ 41]
Franny Billingsley
Chime
Finalist
[ 41]
Albert Marrin
Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy (about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire )
Debby Dahl Edwardson
My Name Is Not Easy
Gary Schmidt
Okay for Now
2012
William Alexander
Goblin Secrets
Winner
[ 42] [ 43] [ 44]
Steve Sheinkin
Bomb: The Race to Build―and Steal―the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
Finalist
[ 44]
Eliot Schrefer
Endangered
Patricia McCormick
Never Fall Down
Carrie Arcos
Out of Reach
2013
Cynthia Kadohata
The Thing About Luck
Winner
[ 45] [ 44]
Gene Luen Yang
Boxers and Saints
Finalist
[ 46] [ 44]
Tom McNeal
Far Far Away
Meg Rosoff
Picture Me Gone
Kathi Appelt
The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp
2014
Jacqueline Woodson
Brown Girl Dreaming
Winner
[ 47] [ 48]
John Corey Whaley
Noggin
Finalist
[ 49] [ 47]
Deborah Wiles
Revolution
Steve Sheinkin
The Port Chicago 50
Eliot Schrefer
Threatened
2015
Neal Shusterman
Challenger Deep
Winner
[ 50]
Laura Ruby
Bone Gap
Finalist
[ 50]
Steve Sheinkin
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
ND Stevenson
Nimona
Ali Benjamin
The Thing About Jellyfish
2016
John Lewis , Nate Powell , and Andrew Aydin
March: Book Three
Winner
[ 51]
Jason Reynolds
Ghost
Finalist
[ 51]
Kate DiCamillo
Raymie Nightingale
Nicola Yoon
The Sun Is Also a Star
Grace Lin
When the Sea Turned to Silver
2017
Robin Benway
Far from the Tree
Winner
[ 52]
Ibi Zoboi
American Street
Finalist
[ 52]
Rita Williams-Garcia
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground
Erika L. Sánchez
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Elana K. Arnold
What Girls Are Made Of
2018
Elizabeth Acevedo
The Poet X
Winner
[ 53]
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Hey, Kiddo
Finalist
[ 54] [ 53]
M. T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
Christopher Paul Curtis
The Journey of Little Charlie
Leslie Connor
The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
2019
Martin W. Sandler
1919: The Year That Changed America
Winner
[ 55] [ 56]
Jason Reynolds
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
Finalist
[ 55] [ 56]
Randy Ribay
Patron Saints of Nothing
Akwaeke Emezi
Pet
Laura Ruby
Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
2020
Kacen Callender
King and the Dragonflies
Winner
[ 57]
Candice Iloh
Every Body Looking
Finalist
[ 58] [ 57]
Gavriel Savit
The Way Back
Traci Chee
We Are Not Free
Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed
When Stars Are Scattered
2021
Malinda Lo
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Winner
[ 59]
Amber McBride
Me (Moth)
Finalist
[ 59]
Kekla Magoon
Revolution in Our Time : The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People
Shing Yin Khor
The Legend of Auntie Po
Kyle Lukoff
Too Bright to See
2022
Sabaa Tahir
All My Rage
Winner
[ 60]
Kelly Barnhill
The Ogress and the Orphans
Finalist
[ 61]
Sonora Reyes
The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
Tommie Smith , Derrick Barnes and Dawud Anyabwile
Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice
Lisa Yee
Maizy Chen's Last Chance
2023
Dan Santat
A First Time for Everything
Winner
[ 62]
Kenneth Cadow
Gather
Finalist
[ 63]
Huda Fahmy
Huda F Cares?
Vashti Harrison
Big
Katherine Marsh
The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine
2024
Shifa Saltagi Safadi
Kareem Between
Winner
[ 64]
Violet Duncan
Buffalo Dreamer
Finalist
[ 65]
Josh Galarza
The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky
Erin Entrada Kelly
The First State of Being
Angela Shanté
The Unboxing of a Black Girl
Authors with two awards
See Winners of multiple U.S. National Book Awards
Two authors have won two Children's or Young People's awards twice.
Lloyd Alexander won for The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian (1971) and Westmark (1982), among six titles that were finalists.
Katherine Paterson won for The Master Puppeteer (1977) and The Great Gilly Hopkins (1979), among three titles that were finalists.
Isaac Bashevis Singer won the Children's Literature award in 1970 for A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw and shared the Fiction award in 1974 for A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories .
See also
Notes
^ Beginning 2005, the official annual webpages (see References) provide more information: the panelists in each award category, the publisher of each finalist, some audio-visual interviews with authors, etc. For 1996 to date, annual webpages generally provide transcripts of acceptance speeches by winning authors.
^ The 1983 panels split three awards, including two in the five Children's categories. Split awards have been prohibited continuously from 1984 (the same reform that eliminated the Children's categories).
^ Books marked "original" may have been paperback reprints during the same calendar year as their hardcover first editions, whence "original" is a misnomer. "Original" books were not eligible for any previous National Book Award, however, as all were first published during the calendar year preceding the award year.
References
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^ "National Book Award Selection Process" Archived June 13, 2008, at the Wayback Machine . NBFs. Retrieved 2011-11-17.
^ "Frequently Asked Questions" Archived November 19, 2017, at the Wayback Machine . NBF. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
^ Anderson, Porter (September 10, 2024). "US National Book Award Longlists: Young People's Literature" . Publishing Perspectives . Retrieved October 13, 2024 .
^ "National Book Award Winners: 1950 – 2009" Archived May 28, 2012, at the Wayback Machine . NBF. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
^ a b "National Book Awards 1969" . National Book Foundation . Archived from the original on June 14, 2019. Retrieved January 21, 2022 .
^ a b Henderson Grotberg, Edith, ed. (1978). 200 Years of Children . U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 370.
^ a b "National Book Awards 1970" . National Book Foundation . Archived from the original on October 24, 2019. Retrieved January 21, 2022 .
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^ a b "National Book Awards 1972" . National Book Foundation . Archived from the original on September 27, 2021. Retrieved January 21, 2022 .
^ a b "National Book Awards 1973" . National Book Foundation . Archived from the original on May 14, 2019. Retrieved January 21, 2022 .
^ a b "National Book Awards 1974" . National Book Foundation . Archived from the original on April 24, 2020. Retrieved January 21, 2022 .
^ a b "National Book Awards 1975" . National Book Foundation . Archived from the original on January 31, 2019. Retrieved January 21, 2022 .
^ a b "National Book Awards 1976" . National Book Foundation . Archived from the original on January 30, 2020. Retrieved January 21, 2022 .
^ a b "National Book Awards 1977" . National Book Foundation . Archived from the original on April 6, 2019. Retrieved January 21, 2022 .
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^ a b "National Book Awards 1979" . National Book Foundation . Archived from the original on June 20, 2019. Retrieved January 21, 2022 .
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