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Jane Addams Children's Book Award Winners

Description: The Jane Addams Childrens' Book Awards are given annually to those books of exceptional quality which promote the cause of peace, social justice, world community, and the equality of the sexes and all races. #award #kids


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Year Category Award Title Author Date Added Action
1972 Medal Winner The Tamarack Tree Betty Underwood and Bea Holmes 05/25/2017
1983 Special Commendation All The Colors Of The Race Arnold Adoff and John L. Steptoe 05/25/2017
1963 Medal Winner The Monkey and the Wild, Wild Wind Ryerson Johnson and Lois Lignell 05/25/2017
1964 Medal Winner Profiles in Courage Young Readers Memorial Edition John F. Kennedy 05/25/2017
1984 Medal Winner Rain Of Fire Marion Dane Bauer 05/25/2017
1989 Medal Winner Looking Out Victoria Boutis 05/25/2017
1980 Medal Winner The Road from Home David Kherdian 05/25/2017
1978 Special Commendation Amifika Lucille Clifton and Thomas Digrazia 05/25/2017
1978 Medal Winner Child of the Owl Laurence Yep 05/25/2017
1954 Medal Winner Stick-in-the-mud Jean Ketchum 05/25/2017
1969 Medal Winner The Endless Steppe Esther Hautzig 05/25/2017
1977 Medal Winner Never to Forget Milton Meltzer 05/25/2017
1970 Medal Winner The Cay Theodore Taylor 05/25/2017
1989 Medal Winner Anthony Burns Virginia Hamilton 05/25/2017
1986 Medal Winner Ain't Gonna Study War No More Milton Meltzer 05/25/2017
1978 Special Commendation The Wheel of King Asoka Ashok Davar 05/25/2017
1966 Medal Winner Berries Goodman Emily Cheney Neville 05/25/2017
1987 Medal Winner Nobody Wants A Nuclear War Judith Vigna 05/25/2017
1967 Medal Winner Queenie Peavy Robert Burch 05/25/2017
1992 Medal Winner Journey of the Sparrows Fran Leeper Buss 05/25/2017
2023 Younger Children Honors Book Sanctuary Kip Tiernan and Rosie’s Place, the Nation’s First Shelter for Women Christine McDonnell 04/10/2023
2023 Younger Children Medal Winner Choosing Brave Angela Joy 01/13/2023
2022 Younger Children Medal Winner Shirley Chisholm Dared The Story of the First Black Woman in Congress Alicia D. Williams 10/04/2022
2019 Younger Children Medal Winner The Day You Begin Jacqueline Woodson and Rafael López 05/20/2021
2021 Younger Children Medal Winner We Are Water Protectors Carole Lindstrom 05/11/2021

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