| Jane Addams Children's Book Award | |
| Awarded For: | Excellence in children's literature promoting peace, social justice, world community and equality |
| Presenter: | Jane Addams Peace Association |
| Country: | United States |
| Location: | New York City |
| Year: | 1953 |
| Website: | http://www.janeaddamspeace.org/ |
The Jane Addams Children's Book Award is given annually to a children's book published the preceding year that advances the causes of peace and social equality. The awards have been presented annually since 1953. They were previously given jointly by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and the Jane Addams Peace Association,[1] but are now presented solely by the Jane Addams Peace Association.
The Jane Addams Children's Book Award was originally awarded to one book per year without categories. A Picture Book category was added in 1993; the award is currently given to two books annually, one for older children and one for younger children. In 2003, the time of year the award is given changed from September, honoring Jane Addams' birthday, to April, honoring the WILPF's birthday.
In the sixty-plus years of the award's history, there has been one public controversy over the selection of its winner. In 1970, the award was given to The Cay by Theodore Taylor, a book which became highly criticized in the years since its publication. In 1974, the current award chair, who was not the chair at the time the award was given to The Cay, publicly stated that she thought it was a mistake to have named The Cay an Addams Award winner.[2] In response, Taylor, who saw the work as "a subtle plea for better race relations and more understanding",[3] returned the Award "by choice, not in anger, but with troubling questions".[4] In later years, Taylor reported that the Award had been rescinded.[5] Even though The Cay remains on the list of Addams Award winners, Taylor's claim is widely thought to be true and has become a part of reading and discussing the book with young people today.[6]
Between 1953 and 1992, only one award was presented per year, after which categories were added.
| 1953 | People Are Important | — | Winner | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | Stick-in-the-Mud | — | Winner | |
| 1955 | Rainbow Round the World | — | Winner | |
| 1956 | Story of the Negro | — | Winner | |
| 1957 | Blue Mystery | — | Winner | |
| 1958 | — | Winner | ||
| 1959 | No award | |||
| 1960 | Champions of Peace | — | Winner | |
| 1961 | What Then, Raman? | — | Winner | |
| 1962 | — | Winner | ||
| 1963 | — | Winner | ||
| 1964 | Profiles in Courage: Young Readers Memorial Edition | — | Winner | |
| 1965 | Meeting with a Stranger | — | Winner | |
| 1966 | Berries Goodman | — | Winner | |
| 1967 | Queenie Peavy | — | Winner | |
| 1968 | Little Fishes | — | Winner | |
| 1969 | — | Winner | ||
| 1970 | — | Winner | ||
| 1971 | Jane Addams: Pioneer of Social Justice | — | Winner | |
| 1972 | — | Winner | ||
| 1973 | — | Winner | ||
| — | Honor | |||
| 1974 | Nilda | — | Winner | |
| — | Honor | |||
| Men Against War | — | Honor | ||
| — | Honor | |||
| 1975 | — | Winner | ||
| and Bernard Cole | — | Honor | ||
| My Brother Sam Is Dead | and Christopher Collier | — | Honor | |
| Viva la Raza! | and Enriqueta Longeaux y Vasquez | — | Honor | |
| 1976 | Paul Robeson | — | Winner | |
| Dragonwings | — | Honor | ||
| Song of the Trees | — | Honor | ||
| Z for Zachariah | — | Honor | ||
| 1977 | Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust | — | Winner | |
| Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | — | Honor | ||
| 1978 | Child of the Owl | — | Winner | |
| Alan and Naomi | — | Honor | ||
| Mischling, Second Degree | — | Honor | ||
| Amifika | — | Special Recognition | ||
| — | Special Recognition | |||
| 1979 | Many Smokes, Many Moons: A Chronology of American Indian History through Indian Art | — | Winner | |
| Escape to Freedom | — | Honor | ||
| — | Honor | |||
| 1980 | — | Winner | ||
| Woman from Hiroshima | — | West Coast Honor | ||
| Natural History | — | Special Recognition | ||
| 1981 | First Woman in Congress: Jeannette Rankin | — | Winner | |
| Chase Me, Catch Nobody! | — | Honor | ||
| Doing Time: A Look at Crime and Prisons | and Robert Lehrman | — | Honor | |
| We Are Mesquakie, We Are One | — | Honor | ||
| 1982 | — | Winner | ||
| Let the Circle Be Unbroken | — | Honor | ||
| Lupita Mañana | — | Honor | ||
| 1983 | Hiroshima No Pika | — | Winner | |
| — | Honor | |||
| If I Had a Paka: Poems in Eleven Languages | Honor | |||
| People at the Edge of the World: The Ohlone of Central California | — | West Coast Honor | ||
| All the Colors of the Race | — | Special Recognition | ||
| Children as Teachers of Peace | Our Children | — | Special Recognition | |
| 1984 | Rain of Fire | — | Winner | |
| 1985 | , translated by Hedvig Pachter | — | Winner | |
| , translated by Hillel Halkin | — | Honor | ||
| Music, Music for Everyone | Honor | |||
| 1986 | Ain't Gonna Study War No More: The Story of America's Peace Seekers | — | Winner | |
| Journey to the Soviet Union | — | Honor | ||
| 1987 | Nobody Wants a Nuclear War | — | Winner | |
| All in a Day | Honor | |||
| Children of the Maya: A Guatemalan Indian Odyssey | (photographs) | Honor | ||
| 1988 | Waiting for the Rain: A Novel of South Africa | — | Winner | |
| Nicolas, Where Have You Been? | Honor | |||
| Trouble at the Mines | Honor | |||
| 1989 | Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave | — | Winner | |
| Looking Out | — | Winner | ||
| December Stillness | — | Honor | ||
| Honor | ||||
| Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust | — | Honor | ||
| 1990 | and Fredrick McKissack | — | Winner | |
| Number the Stars | — | Honor | ||
| Shades of Gray | — | Honor | ||
| Honor | ||||
| 1991 | and Marilyn Sachs | — | Winner | |
| — | Honor | |||
| — | Honor | |||
| 1992 | Journey of the Sparrows | — | Winner | |
| Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom | — | Honor | ||
| 1993 | Picture Book | Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky | Winner | |||
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| Mrs. Katz and Tush | Honor | |||||
| Book for Older Children | — | Winner | ||||
| Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs | — | Honor | ||||
| 1994 | Picture Book | This Land Is My Land | Winner | |||
| Soul Looks Back in Wonder | Honor | |||||
| Book for Older Children | Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Stories | — | Winner | |||
| Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery | — | Honor | ||||
| 1995 | Picture Book | Sitti's Secrets | Honor | |||
| Bein' with You This Way written | Honor | |||||
| Book for Older Children | Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor | — | Winner | |||
| Cézanne Pinto | — | Honor | ||||
| I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This | — | Honor | ||||
| 1996 | Picture Book | No award given | ||||
| Book for Older Children | — | Winner | ||||
| From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun | — | Honor | ||||
| On the Wings of Peace: Writers and Illustrators Speak Out for Peace in Memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | — | — | Honor | |||
| — | Honor | |||||
| — | Special Commendation | |||||
| 1997 | Picture Book | Wilma Unlimited | Winner | |||
| Honor | ||||||
| Book for Older Children | Growing Up In Coal County | — | Winner | |||
| Behind the Bedroom Wall | — | Honor | ||||
| Second Daughter: The Story of a Slave Girl | — | Honor | ||||
| 1998 | Picture Book | Seven Brave Women | Winner | [10] | ||
| Celebrating Families | Honor | |||||
| Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story | Honor | |||||
| Book for Older Children | Habibi | — | Winner | |||
| — | Honor | |||||
| Seedfolks | — | Honor | ||||
| 1999 | Picture Book | Painted Words / Spoken Memories: Marianthe's Story | Winner | |||
| Hey, Little Ant | and Hannah Hoose | Honor | ||||
| i see the rhythm | Honor | |||||
| This Land Is Your Land | Honor | |||||
| Book for Older Children | Bat 6 | — | Winner | |||
| — | Honor | |||||
| No More Strangers Now | (photographs) | Honor | ||||
| Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange | — | Honor | ||||
| 2000 | Picture Book | Molly Bannaky | Winner | |||
| Honor | ||||||
| When Sophie Gets Angry -- Really, Really Angry... | Honor | |||||
| Book for Older Children | Through My Eyes | — | Winner | |||
| — | Honor | |||||
| Kids on Strike! | — | Honor | ||||
| 2001 | Picture Book | Winner | ||||
| Honor | ||||||
| Book for Older Children | Esperanza Rising | — | Winner | |||
| — | Honor | |||||
| Darkness over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews | — | Honor | ||||
| Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues | — | Honor | ||||
| 2002 | Picture Book | Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | Winner | |||
| Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart | Honor | |||||
| Book for Older Children | — | Winner | ||||
| — | Honor | |||||
| True Believer | — | Honor | ||||
| 2003 | Picture Book | Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam | Winner | |||
| Honor | ||||||
| Honor | ||||||
| Book for Older Children | Parvana's Journey | — | Winner | |||
| — | Honor | |||||
| When My Name Was Keoko | — | Honor | ||||
| 2004 | Picture Book | Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez | Winner | |||
| Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings | Honor | |||||
| Luba: The Angel of Bergen-Belsen | Honor | |||||
| Book for Older Children | Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope | — | Winner | |||
| — | Honor | |||||
| Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York 1880-1924 | — | Honor | ||||
| — | Special Commendation | |||||
| 2005 | Book for Younger Children | Winner | ||||
| Hot Day on Abbott Avenue | Honor | |||||
| Henry and the Kite Dragon | Honor | |||||
| Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing | , translation into Cherokee by Anna Sixkiller Huckaby | — | Honor | |||
| Book for Older Children | With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote | — | Winner | |||
| — | Honor | |||||
| 2006 | Book for Younger Children | Delivering Justice: W. W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights | Winner | |||
| Poems to Dream Together=Poemas Para Soñar Juntos | Honor | |||||
| Book for Older Children | Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX, the Law that Changed the Future of Girls in America | — | Winner | |||
| — | Honor | |||||
| Sweetgrass Basket | — | Honor | ||||
| 2007 | Book for Younger Children | Winner | ||||
| Night Boat to Freedom | Honor | |||||
| Crossing Bok Chitto | Honor | |||||
| Book for Older Children | Weedflower | — | Winner | |||
| Freedom Walkers | — | Honor | ||||
| Counting on Grace | — | Honor | ||||
| 2008 | Book for Younger Children | Winner | ||||
| One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II | Honor | |||||
| Book for Older Children | We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin | — | Winner | |||
| Rickshaw Girl | Honor | |||||
| Elijah of Buxton | — | Honor | ||||
| Birmingham, 1963 | — | Honor | ||||
| 2009 | Book for Younger Children | Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai | Winner | |||
| Honor | ||||||
| Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad | Honor | |||||
| Book for Older Children | — | Winner | ||||
| — | Honor | |||||
| Ain't Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry | with Marc Aronson | — | Honor | |||
| 2010 | Book for Younger Children | Nasreen's Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan | Winner | |||
| Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp Stride | Honor | |||||
| You and Me and Home Sweet Home | Honor | |||||
| Book for Older Children | Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow Weary | — | Winner | |||
| Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream | — | Honor | ||||
| Claudette Colvin | — | Honor | ||||
| 2011 | Book for Younger Children | Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty | Winner | |||
| Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down | Honor | |||||
| Ruth and the Green Book | with Gwen Strauss | Honor | ||||
| Book for Older Children | — | Winner | ||||
| — | Honor | |||||
| Birmingham Sunday | — | Honor | ||||
| 2012 | Book for Younger Children | and Cindy Trumbore | Winner | |||
| Peaceful Pieces: Poems and Quilts about Peace | Honor | |||||
| Belle, the Last Mule at Gee's Bend | and Bettye Strouds | Honor | ||||
| Book for Older Children | Sylvia & Aki | — | Winner | |||
| Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans | Honor | |||||
| Inside Out & Back Again | — | Honor | ||||
| 2013 | Book for Younger Children | Each Kindness | Winner | |||
| Dolores Huerta: A Hero to Migrant Workers | Honor | |||||
| We March | Honor | |||||
| Book for Older Children | We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March | — | Winner | |||
| Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr's Final Hours | — | Honor | ||||
| Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World | — | Honor | ||||
| 2014 | Book for Younger Children | Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909 | Winner | [11] | ||
| We Shall Overcome: The Story of a Song | Honor | |||||
| Razia's Ray of Hope: One Girl's Dream of an Education | Honor | |||||
| Book for Older Children | Sugar | — | Winner | |||
| Seeing Red | — | Honor | ||||
| Brotherhood | — | Honor | ||||
| 2015 | Book for Younger Children | Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and her family's fight for desegregation | Winner | |||
| Whispering Town | Honor | |||||
| Shooting at the Stars: The Christmas Truce of 1914 | Honor | |||||
| Book for Older Children | — | Winner | ||||
| Revolution | — | Honor | ||||
| Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal | — | Honor | ||||
| 2016 | Book for Younger Children | New Shoes | Winner | |||
| Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Honor | |||||
| Mama's Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation | Honor | |||||
| Book for Older Children | Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March | Winner | ||||
| Full Cicada Moon | — | Honor | ||||
| 2017 | Book for Younger Children | Steamboat School | Winner | |||
| First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial | Honor | |||||
| I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark | Honor | |||||
| Book for Older Children | Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story | — | Winner | |||
| We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler | — | Honor | ||||
| Wolf Hollow | — | Honor | ||||
| 2018 | Book for Younger Children | Malala's Magic Pencil | Winner | |||
| Before She Was Harriet | Honor | |||||
| Book for Older Children | The Enemy: Detroit 1954 | Winner | ||||
| Fred Korematsu Speaks Up | and Stan Yogi | Honor | ||||
| Midnight Without A Moon | — | Honor | ||||
| Piecing Me Together | — | Honor | ||||
| 2019 | Book for Younger Children | Winner | [12] | |||
| Honor | ||||||
| Honor | ||||||
| Book for Older Children | Ghost Boys | — | Winner | |||
| — | Honor | |||||
| We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices | and Cheryl Willis Hudson (editors) | — | Honor | |||
| 2020 | ? | |||||
| 2021 | Book for Younger Children | We Are Water Protectors | Winner | [13] [14] | ||
| Ocean Speaks: How Marie Tharp Revealed The Ocean's Biggest Secret | Honor | |||||
| Black Is a Rainbow Color | Honor | |||||
| Book for Older Children | — | Winner | ||||
| Land of the Cranes | — | Honor | ||||
| Finish the Fight | and the staff of The New York Times | — | Honor | |||
| 2022 | Book for Younger Children | Shirley Chisholm Dared: The Story of the First Black Woman in Congress | Winner | [15] | ||
| Runaway: The Daring Escape of Ona Judge | Honor | |||||
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| Book for Older Children | How to Find What You're Not Looking For | — | Winner | |||
| Rez Dogs | — | Honor | ||||
| Strong as Fire, Fierce as Flame | — | Honor | ||||
| 2023 | Book for Younger Children | Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement | Winner | |||
| Ida B. Wells, Voice of Truth: Educator, Feminist, and Anti-Lynching Civil Rights Leader | Honor | |||||
| Sanctuary: Kip Tiernan and Rosie's Place, the Nation's First Shelter for Women | Honor | |||||
| Book for Older Children | Undercover Latina | — | Winner | |||
| Swim Team | Honor | |||||
| Yonder | — | Honor |