Awards & Winners

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Children's

NAACP Image Award

The NAACP Image Award winners for Outstanding Literary Work, Children's:

Check all the winners of NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Children's presented under NAACP Image Award since 1999 .


Kadir Nelson

Honored for : Nelson Mandela

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld

Honored for : What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors

Nominations 2013 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Jabari Asim Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington
Renee Watson Harlem's Little Blackbird
Joyce Carol Thomas In the Land of Milk and Honey
Kwame Alexander Indigo Blume and the Garden City
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors
Raymond Obstfeld What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors

Tony Dungy

Honored for : You Can Be A Friend

Nominations 2012 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Tony Dungy You Can Be A Friend
Kwame Alexander Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band
Lesa Cline-Ransome Before There Was Mozart
Kadir Nelson Heart and Soul
Michael S. Bandy White Water

Holly Robinson, Ryan Elizabeth Peete

Honored for : My Brother Charlie
(Scholastic Press)

Nominations 2011 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Holly Robinson My Brother Charlie
Scholastic Press
Ryan Elizabeth Peete My Brother Charlie
Scholastic Press
Eric Velasquez Grandma's Gift
Donna Jo Napoli Mama Miti
Paula Wiseman Books","Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Kadir Nelson Mama Miti
Paula Wiseman Books","Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Monica Brown Side by Side/Lado a Lado: The Story of Delores Huerta and Cesar Chavez
Harper Collins Children's Books
Joe Cepeda Side by Side/Lado a Lado: The Story of Delores Huerta and Cesar Chavez
Harper Collins Children's Books
Eloise Greenfield The Great Migration: Journey to the North
Harper Collins Children's Books
Jan Gilchrist The Great Migration: Journey to the North
Harper Collins Children's Books

Michelle Cook

Honored for : Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the Pioneers of Change

Nominations 2010 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Paula Young Shelton Child of the Civil Rights Movement
Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Toni Morrison Peeny Butter Fudge
Slade Morrison Peeny Butter Fudge
Whoopi Goldberg Sugar Plum Ballerinas: Toeshoe Trouble

Nikki Grimes

Honored for : Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Nikki Grimes Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope
Maya Angelou Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem
Dionne Warwick Say a Little Prayer
Tonya Bolden Say a Little Prayer
David Freeman Wooley Say a Little Prayer
Kadir Nelson We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
Tony Dungy You Can Do It!

Sue Stauffacher, Greg Couch

Honored for : Nothing but Trouble: The Story of Althea Gibson

Nominations 2008 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Sue Stauffacher Nothing but Trouble: The Story of Althea Gibson
Greg Couch Nothing but Trouble: The Story of Althea Gibson
Patricia McKissack Friendship For Today
Christopher Paul Curtis Elijah of Buxton
Ashley Bryan Let it Shine
Lesa Cline-Ransome Young Pele
James E. Ransome Young Pele

Carole Boston Weatherford

Honored for : Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Carole Boston Weatherford Dear Mr. Rosenwald
Common I Like You But I Love Me
Carole Boston Weatherford Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
Doreen Rappaport Nobody gonna turn me 'round
Whoopi Goldberg Whoopi's Big Book of Manners

Jada Pinkett Smith

Honored for : Girls Hold Up This World

Nominations 2006 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Jada Pinkett Smith Girls Hold Up This World
Marian Wright Edelman I Can Make a Difference
Doreen Rappaport The School Is Not White! A True Story of the Civil Rights Movement
Alice Faye Duncan Honey Baby Sugar Child
Spike Lee Please, Puppy, Please

Scott Ingram

Honored for : The 1963 Civil Rights March

Nominations 2005 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Scott Ingram The 1963 Civil Rights March
Joyce Hanson African Princess: The Amazing Lives of Africa's Royal Women
Ntozake Shange Ellington was not a street
Robert Burleigh Langston's Train Ride
Maya Angelou Maya's World: Angelina of Italy

Christine King Farris

Honored for : My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up With the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nominations 2004 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Sabrina Crewe The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Events That Shaped America)
Frank Walsh The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Events That Shaped America)
Mark Bozzuti-Jones God Created
Romare Bearden Li'l Dan, the Drummer Boy: A Civil War Story
Christine King Farris My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up With the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Toni Morrison Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper?
Slade Morrison Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper?

Nelson Mandela

Honored for : Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales

Nominations 2003 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales

Will Smith, Kadir Nelson

Honored for : Just the Two of Us

Nominations 2002 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Will Smith Just the Two of Us
Kadir Nelson Just the Two of Us

Sandra Pinkney

Honored for : Shades Of Black

Nominations 2001 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Sandra Pinkney Shades Of Black
Debbie Allen Dancing in the Wings
Judith Pinkerton Josephson Nikki Giovanni, poet of the people
Stedman Graham Teens can make it happen
Carole Boston Weatherford The Sound That Jazz Makes

Faith Ringgold

Honored for : If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks

Nominations 2000 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Della Reese God inside of me
Bell Hooks Happy to be Nappy
Faith Ringgold If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks
Bill Cosby The Day I was Rich
Ruby Bridges Through My Eyes

Patricia McKissack, Fredrick McKissack, James E. Ransome

Honored for : Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told by a Freeman of Color

Nominations 1999 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Patricia McKissack Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told by a Freeman of Color
Fredrick McKissack Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told by a Freeman of Color
James E. Ransome Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told by a Freeman of Color