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NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Children

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This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in the children's literature category.

2000s

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Year	Work	Author	Ref
2000
	If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks	Faith Ringgold	^[3]
	God Inside of Me	Della Reese
	Happy to Be Nappy	bell hooks
	The Day I Was Rich	Bill Cosby
	Through My Eyes	Ruby Bridges
2001
	Shades of Black	Sandra Pinkney	^[4]
	Dancing in the Wings	Debbie Allen
	Nikki Giovanni, Poet of the People	Judith Pinkerton Josephson
	Teens Can Make It Happen	Stedman Graham
	The Sound That Jazz Makes	Carole Boston Weatherford
2002
2002	Just the Two of Us	Will Smith (writer) and Kadir Nelson (illustrator)	^[5]
2003
2003	Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales	Nelson Mandela	^[6]
2004
	My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	Christine King Farris	^[7]
	The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Events that Shaped America)	Sabrina Crewe and Frank Walsh
	God Created	Mark Bozzuti-Jones
	Li'l Dan, the Drummer Boy: A Civil War Story	Romare Bearden
	Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper?	Slade Morrison
2005
	The 1963 Civil Rights March	Sabrina Crewe and Scott Ingram	^[8]
	African Princess: The Amazing Lives of Africa's Royal Women	Joyce Hanson
	Ellington Was Not a Street	Ntozake Shange
	Langston's Train Ride	Robert Burleigh
	Maya's World: Angelina of Italy	Maya Angelou
2006
	Girls Hold Up This World	Jada Pinkett Smith	^[9]
	I Can Make a Difference	Marian Wright Edelman
	The School Is Not White! A True Story of the Civil Rights Movement	Doreen Rappaport
	Honey Baby Sugar Child	Alice Faye Duncan
	Please, Puppy, Please	Spike Lee
2007
	Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom	Carole Boston Weatherford	^[10]
	Dear Mr. Rosenwald	Carole Boston Weatherford
	I Like You But I Love Me	Common
	Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'Round	Doreen Rappaport
	Whoopi's Big Book of Manners	Whoopi Goldberg
2008
	Nothing but Trouble: The Story of Althea Gibson	Sue Stauffacher	^[11]
	Friendship for Today	Patricia McKissack
	Elijah of Buxton	Christopher Paul Curtis
	Let It Shine	Ashley Bryan
	Young Pele	Lesa Cline-Ransome
2009
	Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope	Nikki Grimes	^[12]
	Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem	Maya Angelou
	Say a Little Prayer	Dionne Warwick
	We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball	Kadir Nelson
	You Can Do It!	Tony Dungy
2010
	Our Children Can Soar	Michelle Cook	^[13]
	The Negro Speaks of Rivers	Langston Hughes
	Peeny Butter Fudge	Toni Morrison
	Sugar Plum Ballerinas: Toeshoe Trouble	Whoopi Goldberg
	Child of the Civil Rights Movement	Paula Young Shelton

2010s

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Year	Work	Author	Ref
2011
	My Brother Charlie	Holly Robinson Peete	^[14]
	Grandma’s Gift	Eric Velasquez
	Mama Miti: Wangai Maathai and the Tree of Kenya	Donna Jo Napoli
	Side by Side/Lado a Lado: The Story of Delores Huerta and Cesar Chavez	Monica Brown
	The Great Migration: Journey to the North	Eloise Greenfield
2012
	You Can Be a Friend	Tony Dungy	^[15]
	Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band	Kwame Alexander
	Before There Was Mozart	Lesa Cline-Ransome
	Heart and Soul	Kadir Nelson
	White Water	Michael S. Bandy
2013
	What Color is My World	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	^[16]
	Fifty Cents and a Dream	Jabari Asim
	Harlem's Little Blackbird	Renee Watson
	In the Land of Milk and Honey	Joyce Carol Thomas
	Indigo Blume and the Garden City	Kwame Alexander
2014
	Nelson Mandela	Kadir Nelson	^[17]
	I'm A Pretty Little Black Girl!	Betty K. Bynum
	Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me	Daniel Beaty
	Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song	Andrea Davis Pinkney
	You Never Heard of Willie Mays?!	Jonah Winter
2015
	Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Happily Ever After	Rachel Renee Russell, Nikki Russell, and Erin Russell	^[18]
	Beautiful Moon	Tonya Bolden
	Little Melba and Her Big Trombone	Katheryn Russell-Brown
	Malcolm Little	Ilyasah Shabazz
	Searching for Sarah Rector	Tonya Bolden
2016
	Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America	Carole Boston Weatherford	^[19]
	Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historical Facts	Nikki Grimes
	Granddaddy’s Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box	Michael S. Bandy
	If You Plant a Seed	Kadir Nelson
	New Shoes	Susan Lynn Meyer
2017
	Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas	Gwendolyn Hooks	^[20]
	A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of the Snowy Day	Andrea Davis Pinkney
	Daddy’s Little Girl	Karissa Culbreath
	Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat	Javaka Steptoe
	The Golden Girls of Rio	Nikkolas Smith
2018
	Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History	Vashti Harrison	^[21]
	Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld
	Before She Was Harriet	Lesa Cline-Ransome (Author), James E. Ransome (Illustrator)
	Take a Picture of Me, James VanDerZee!	Andrea J. Loney (Author), Keith Mallett (Illustrator)
	The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, A Young Civil Rights Activist	Cynthia Levinson (Author), Vanessa Brantley-Newton (Illustrator)
2019
	Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race	Margot Lee Shetterly (Author), Laura Freeman (Illustrator)	^[22]
	Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, A Monumental American Man	Tonya Bolden
	I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can't	Diane Dillon
	The 5 O'Clock Band	Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews (Author), Bryan Collier (Illustrator)
	The Word Collector	Peter H. Reynolds

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Year	Work	Author	Ref
2020
	Sulwe	Lupita Nyong'o (Author), Vashti Harrison (Illustrator)	^[23]
	A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation	Barry Wittenstein (Author), Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator)
	Hair Love	Matthew A. Cherry (Author), Vashti Harrison (Illustrator)
	Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment	Parker Curry (Author), Jessica Curry (Author), Brittany Jackson (Illustrator)
	Ruby Finds a Worry	Tom Percival
2021
	She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm	Katheryn Russell-Brown (Author), Eric Velasquez (Illustrator)	^[24]
	I Promise	LeBron James (Author), Nina Mata (Illustrator)
	Just Like a Mama	Alice Faye Duncan (Author), Charnelle Pinkney Barlow (Illustrator)
	Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice	Nikki Grimes (Author), Laura Freeman (Illustrator)
	The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver	Gene Barretta (Author), Frank Morrison (Illustrator)

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NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Children

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Multiple wins and nominations

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Year	Book	Author	Ref
1996
1996	Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales and True Tales by Virginia Hamilton	Virginia Hamilton	^[1]
1999			^[1]
1999	Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told by a Freeman of Color	Patricia McKissack	^[2]