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The Carter G. Woodson Book Award is an American literary award created in 1973 by the Racism and Social Justice Committee of the National Council for the Social Studies to promote cultural literacy in children and young adults.

First presented in 1974, the award is named for American historian, author, and journalist Carter G. Woodson. Currently awarded at three levels – elementary, middle, and secondary – middle was added in 2001 after the other two divisions began in 1989.

In addition to announcing winners, the award recognizes honor books, referred to from 1980 to 1996 as those having "outstanding merit". An accompanying seal, with a likeness of Woodson, was introduced in 1999 with gold seals applied to winning book covers and silver seals on honor books.

As of 2024, Brent Ashabranner is the only author whose books have received the award three times, as well as the only to have winning books two years in a row. Don Tate, who first had a book win the Woodson award in 2016, illustrated a second title that also (uniquely) won that year.

Award recipients

General winners (1974–1988)
Year Author Title Ref.
1974 Eloise Greenfield Rosa Parks
1975 Jesse C. Jackson Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord: The Life of Mahalia Jackson, Queen of the Gospel Singers
1976 Laurence Yep Dragonwings
1977 Dorothy Sterling The Trouble They Seen
1978 Jane Goodsell The Biography of Daniel Inouye
1979 Peter Nabokov Native American Testimony: An Anthology of Indian and White Relations
1980 Nancy Wood War Cry on a Prayer Feather: Prose and Poetry of the Ute
1981 Milton Meltzer The Chinese Americans
1982 Susan Carver and Paula McGuire Coming to North America from Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico
1983 Brent Ashabranner Morning Star, Black Sun
1984 E.B. Fincher Mexico and the United States
1985 Brent Ashabranner To Live in Two Worlds: American Indian Youth Today
1986 Brent Ashabranner Dark Harvest: Migrant Farmworkers in America
1987 Arlene Hirschfelder Happily May I Walk
1988 James Haskins Black Music in America: A History Through Its People
Secondary level winners (grades 7–12, since 1989)
Year Author Title Ref.
1989 Charles Patterson Marian Anderson
1990 Rebecca Larsen Paul Robeson
1991 Mary E. Lyons Sorrow's Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston
1992 Jeri Ferris Native American Doctor: The Story of Susan LaFlesche Picotte
1993 Mildred Pitts Walter Mississippi Challenge
1994 James Haskins The March on Washington
1995 Zak Mettger Till Victory is Won: Black Soldiers in the Civil War
1996 Ellen Levine A Fence Away from Freedom: Japanese Americans and World War II
1997 James Haskins The Harlem Renaissance
1998 Milton Meltzer Langston Hughes
1999 Rinna Evelyn Wolfe Edmonia Lewis: Wildfire in Marble
2000 Sharon Linnea Princess Ka'iulani: Hope of a Nation, Heart of a People
2001 Albert Marrin Tatan'ka Iyota'ke: Sitting Bull and His World
2002 Barbara C. Cruz Multiethnic Teens and Cultural Identity
2003 Harvey Fireside The "Mississippi Burning" Civil Rights Murder Conspiracy Trial: a Headline Court Case
2004 James Tackach Early Black Reformers
2005 Robert H. Mayer (editor) The Civil Rights Act of 1964
2006 Calvin Craig Miller No Easy Answers: Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
2007 Joanne Oppenheim Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese-American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference
2008 Vincent Collin Beach with Anni Beach Don't Throw Away Your Stick Till You Cross the River: The Journey of an Ordinary Man
2009 Francisco Jiménez Reaching Out
2010 Ann Bausum Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories From the Dark Side of American Immigration
2011 Elaine M. Alphin An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank
2012 Larry Dane Brimner Black and White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connors
2013 Judith Fradin and Dennis Fradin Stolen into Slavery the True Story of Solomon Northup, Free Black Man
2014 no award presented
2015 Steve Sheinkin The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
2016 Winifred Conkling Passenger on the Pearl: The True Story of Emily Edmonson's Flight from Slavery
2017 John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell March (Trilogy)
2018 Larry Dane Brimner Twelve Days in May—Freedom Ride 1961
2019 Claire Hartfield A Few Red Drops
2020 Ashley Bryan Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace
2021 Evette Dionne Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box
2022 Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace Race Against Time
2023 Lawrence Goldstone Days of Infamy: How a Century of Bigotry Led to Japanese American Internment
2024 Thien Pham Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam
Middle level winners (grades 5–8, since 2001)
Year Author Title Ref.
2001 Andrea Davis Pinkney Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
2002 Alice Hinkel Prince Estabrook: Slave and Soldier
2003 Michael L. Cooper Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation Camp
2004 Kimberly Komatsu and Kaleigh Komatsu In America's Shadow
2005 Russell Freedman The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
2006 Bárbara Cruz César Chávez: A Voice for Farmworkers
2007 Russell Freedman Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
2008 John Fleischman Black and White Airmen: Their True History
2009 James Haskins and Kathleen Benson with Virginia Schomp Drama of African-American History: The Rise of Jim Crow
2010 Phillip Hoose Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
2011 no award presented
2012 Susan Goldman Rubin Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein
2013 Ann Bausum Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights, and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Final Hours
2014 Tonya Bolden Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty
2015 Teri Kanefield The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement
2016 no award presented
2017 no award presented
2018 Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi Fighting for Justice—Fred Korematsu Speaks Up
2019 Wendy Ewald America Border Culture Dreamer: The Young Immigrant Experience From A to Z
2020 Ashley Bryan Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace
2021 James Otis Smith Black Heroes of the Wild West
2022 Carole Boston Weatherford Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
2023 Candacy Taylor Overground Railroad: The Green Book and The Roots of Black Travel in America (The Young Adult Adaptation)
2024 Traci Sorell Contenders: Two Native Baseball Players, One World Series
Elementary level winners (grades K–6, since 1989)
Year Author Title Ref.
1989 Jeri Ferris Walking the Road to Freedom
1990 Aylette Jenness and Alice Rivers In Two Worlds: A Yup’ik Eskimo Family
1991 Catherine Scheader Shirley Chisolm
1992 Fay Stanley The Last Princess: The Story of Princess Ka’iulani of Hawai’i
1993 Patricia and Fredrick McKissack Madam C.J. Walker
1994 Mary E. Lyons Starting Home: The Story of Horace Pippin, Painter
1995 Jeri Ferris What I Had Was Singing: The Story of Marian Anderson
1996 Monty Roessel Songs from the Loom: A Navajo Girl Learns to Weave
1997 Suhaib Hamid Ghazi Ramadan
1998 Leon Walter Tillage Leon's Story
1999 John Duggleby Story Painter: The Life of Jacob Lawrence
2000 Ruby Bridges Through My Eyes
2001 Carole Boston Weatherford The Sound that Jazz Makes
2002 Nanette Mellage Coming Home: A Story of Josh Gibson, Baseball's Greatest Home Run Hitter
2003 Richard Griswold del Castillo Cesar Chavez: The Struggle for Justice / Cesar Chavez: La lucha por la justicia
2004 Liselotte Erdrich Sacagawea
2005 Joseph Bruchac Jim Thorpe's Bright Path
2006 Margot Theis Raven Let Them Play
2007 Jim Haskins and Kathleen Benson John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement
2008 Bill Wise Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer
2009 Nikki Giovanni Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship
2010 Paula Yoo Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story
2011 Andrea Davis Pinkney Sit In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down
2012 Gina Capaldi and Q. L. Pearce Red Bird Sings: The Story of Zitkala-Ša, Native American Author, Musician, and Activist (adapted)
2013 Jabari Asim Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington
2014 Anne Rockwell Hey Charleston!: The True Story of the Jenkins Orphanage Band
2015 Duncan Tonatiuh Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
2016 Don Tate Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton
Chris Barton The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch
2017 Annette Bay Pimentel Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed His Plans, and Helped Cook Up the National Park Service
2018 Cynthia Levinson The Youngest Marcher—The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
2019 Mélina Mangal The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just
2020 Kwame Alexander The Undefeated
2021 Don Tate William Still and His Freedom Stories
2022 Martha Brockenbrough and Grace Lin I Am an American: The Wong Kim Ark Story
2023 Diane Wilson, Sun Yung Shin, Shannon Gibney, and John Coy Where We Come From
2024 Carole Lindstrom My Powerful Hair

References

  1. "Carter G. Woodson Book Awards, 2009". ERIC. 2010. Retrieved December 18, 2024.
  2. ^ "About the Awards". Carter G. Woodson Awards. Retrieved December 18, 2024.
  3. Maughan, Shannon (August 10, 2021). "Obituary: Eloise Greenfield". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved December 19, 2024.
  4. "Jesse Jackson". Oxford Reference. Oxford University Press. Retrieved December 19, 2024.
  5. Huimin Liu (2021). "Literature Review on 'Dragonwings'" (PDF). Frontiers in Art Research. 3 (6). doi:10.25236/FAR.2021.030611. Retrieved December 19, 2024.
  6. "Dorothy Sterling". Contemporary Authors Online. 2003. Retrieved December 19, 2024 – via Dorothy Sterling papers, Archives West.
  7. "Daniel Inouye (Crowell Biographies)". African American Literature Book Club. Retrieved December 19, 2024.
  8. Towne, Peter. "Nabokov, Peter (Francis) 1940–". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved December 19, 2024.
  9. "War Cry on a Prayer Feather: Prose and Poetry of the Ute". Teaching Books. Retrieved December 19, 2024.
  10. "The Chinese Americans". African American Literature Book Club. Retrieved December 19, 2024.
  11. "Coming to North America from Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico". Teaching Books. Retrieved December 19, 2024.
  12. ^ "Carter G. Woodson Book Award and Honor Winners: 1974–2000". National Council for the Social Studies. Retrieved December 20, 2024.
  13. "Mexico and the United States". Teaching Books. Retrieved December 20, 2024.

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Carter G. Woodson Book Award winners
General winners (1974–1988)
  • Rosa Parks by Eloise Greenfield (1974)
  • Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord: The Life of Mahalia Jackson, Queen of the Gospel Singers by Jesse C. Jackson (1975)
  • Dragonwings by Laurence Yep (1976)
  • The Trouble They Seen by Dorothy Sterling (1977)
  • The Biography of Daniel Inouye by Jan Goodsell (1978)
  • Native American Testimony: An Anthology of Indian and White Relations edited by Peter Nabokov (1979)
  • War Cry on a Prayer Feather: Prose and Poetry of the Ute by Nancy Wood (1980)
  • The Chinese Americans by Milton Meltzer (1981)
  • Coming to North America from Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico by Susan Carver and Paula McGuire (1982)
  • Morning Star, Black Sun by Brent Ashabranner (1983)
  • Mexico and the United States by E.B. Fincher (1984)
  • To Live in Two Worlds: American Indian Youth Today by Brent Ashabranner (1985)
  • Dark Harvest: Migrant Farmworkers in America by Brent Ashabranner (1986)
  • Happily May I Walk by Arlene Hirschfelder (1987)
  • Black Music in America: A History Through Its People by James Haskins (1988)
Secondary level winners (grades 7–12, since 1989)
  • Marian Anderson by Charles Patterson (1989)
  • Paul Robeson by Rebecca Larsen (1990)
  • Sorrow's Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston by Mary E. Lyons (1991)
  • Native American Doctor: The Story of Susan LaFlesche Picotte by Jeri Ferris (1992)
  • Mississippi Challenge by Mildred Pitts Walter (1993)
  • The March on Washington by James Haskins (1994)
  • Till Victory is Won: Black Soldiers in the Civil War by Zak Mettger (1995)
  • A Fence Away from Freedom: Japanese Americans and World War II by Ellen Levine (1996)
  • The Harlem Renaissance by Jim Haskins (1997)
  • Langston Hughes by Milton Meltzer (1998)
  • Edmonia Lewis: Wildfire in Marble by Rinna Evelyn Wolfe (1999)
  • Princess Ka'iulani: Hope of a Nation, Heart of a People by Sharon Linnea (2000)
  • Tatan'ka Iyota'ke: Sitting Bull and His World by Albert Marrin (2001)
  • Multiethnic Teens and Cultural Identity by Barbara C. Cruz (2002)
  • The "Mississippi Burning" Civil Rights Murder Conspiracy Trial: a Headline Court Case by Harvey Fireside (2003)
  • Early Black Reformers by James Tackach (2004)
  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 edited by Robert H. Mayer (2005)
  • No Easy Answers: Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement by Calvin Craig Miller (2006)
  • Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese-American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference by Joanne Oppenheim (2007)
  • Don't Throw Away Your Stick Till You Cross the River: The Journey of an Ordinary Man by Vincent Collin Beach with Anni Beach (2008)
  • Reaching Out by Francisco Jiménez (2009)
  • Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories From the Dark Side of American Immigration by Ann Bausum (2010)
  • An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank by Elaine M. Alphin (2011)
  • Black and White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connors by Larry Dane Brimner (2012)
  • Stolen into Slavery the True Story of Solomon Northup, Free Black Man by Judith Fradin and Dennis Fradin (2013)
  • (none in 2014)
  • The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin (2015)
  • Passenger on the Pearl: The True Story of Emily Edmonson's Flight from Slavery by Winifred Conkling (2016)
  • March (Trilogy) by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell (2017)
  • Twelve Days in May—Freedom Ride 1961 by Larry Dane Brimner (2018)
  • A Few Red Drops by Claire Hartfield (2019)
  • Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace by Ashley Bryan (2020)
  • Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box by Evette Dionne (2021)
  • Race Against Time by Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace (2022)
  • Days of Infamy: How a Century of Bigotry Led to Japanese American Internment by Lawrence Goldstone (2023)
  • Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam by Thien Pham (2024)
Middle level winners (grades 5–8, since 2001)
  • Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney (2001)
  • Prince Estabrook: Slave and Soldier by Alice Hinkel (2002)
  • Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation Camp by Michael L. Cooper (2003)
  • In America's Shadow by Kimberly Komatsu and Kaleigh Komatsu (2004)
  • The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman (2005)
  • César Chávez: A Voice for Farmworkers by Bárbara Cruz (2006)
  • Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman (2007)
  • Black and White Airmen: Their True History by John Fleischman (2008)
  • Drama of African-American History: The Rise of Jim Crow by James Haskins and Kathleen Benson with Virginia Schomp (2009)
  • Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose (2010)
  • (none in 2011)
  • Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein by Susan Goldman Rubin (2012)
  • Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights, and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Final Hours by Ann Bausum (2013)
  • Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty by Tonya Bolden (2014)
  • The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement by Teri Kanefield (2015)
  • (none in 2016)
  • (none in 2017)
  • Fighting for Justice—Fred Korematsu Speaks Up by Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi (2018)
  • America Border Culture Dreamer: The Young Immigrant Experience From A to Z by Wendy Ewald (2019)
  • Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace by Ashley Bryan (2020)
  • Black Heroes of the Wild West by James Otis Smith (2021)
  • Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford (2022)
  • Overground Railroad: The Green Book and The Roots of Black Travel in America (The Young Adult Adaptation) by Candacy Taylor (2023)
  • Contenders: Two Native Baseball Players, One World Series by Traci Sorell (2024)
Elementary level winners (grades K–6, since 1989)
  • Walking the Road to Freedom by Jeri Ferris (1989)
  • In Two Worlds: A Yup’ik Eskimo Family by Aylette Jenness and Alice Rivers (1990)
  • Shirley Chisolm by Catherine Scheader (1991)
  • The Last Princess: The Story of Princess Ka’iulani of Hawai’i by Fay Stanley (1992)
  • Madam C.J. Walker by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack (1993)
  • Starting Home: The Story of Horace Pippin, Painter by Mary E. Lyons (1994)
  • What I Had Was Singing: The Story of Marian Anderson by Jeri Ferris (1995)
  • Songs from the Loom: A Navajo Girl Learns to Weave by Monty Roessel (1996)
  • Ramadan by Suhaib Hamid Ghazi (1997)
  • Leon's Story by Leon Walter Tillage (1998)
  • Story Painter: The Life of Jacob Lawrence by John Duggleby (1999)
  • Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges (2000)
  • The Sound that Jazz Makes by Carole Boston Weatherford (2001)
  • Coming Home: A Story of Josh Gibson, Baseball's Greatest Home Run Hitter by Nanette Mellage (2002)
  • Cesar Chavez: The Struggle for Justice / Cesar Chavez: La lucha por la justicia by Richard Griswold del Castillo (2003)
  • Sacagawea by Liselotte Erdrich (2004)
  • Jim Thorpe's Bright Path by Joseph Bruchac (2005)
  • Let Them Play by Margot Theis Raven (2006)
  • John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement by Jim Haskins and Kathleen Benson (2007)
  • Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer by Bill Wise (2008)
  • Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship by Nikki Giovanni (2009)
  • Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story by Paula Yoo (2010)
  • Sit In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney (2011)
  • Red Bird Sings: The Story of Zitkala-Ša, Native American Author, Musician, and Activist adapted by Gina Capaldi and Q. L. Pearce (2012)
  • Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington by Jabari Asim (2013)
  • Hey Charleston!: The True Story of the Jenkins Orphanage Band by Anne Rockwell (2014)
  • Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh (2015)
  • Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton by Don Tate; The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch by Chris Barton (2016)
  • Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed His Plans, and Helped Cook Up the National Park Service by Annette Bay Pimentel (2017)
  • The Youngest Marcher—The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist by Cynthia Levinson (2018)
  • The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just by Mélina Mangal (2019)
  • The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander (2020)
  • William Still and His Freedom Stories by Don Tate (2021)
  • I Am an American: The Wong Kim Ark Story by Martha Brockenbrough and Grace Lin (2022)
  • Where We Come From by Diane Wilson, Sun Yung Shin, Shannon Gibney, and John Coy (2023)
  • My Powerful Hair by Carole Lindstrom (2024)
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