Spring 2020 Children’s and Young Adult Book Awards
Many of us, teachers and students alike, have found solace during this pandemic in the phenomenal children’s and young adult books that are available in print and online, through digital library collections and author read-alouds. Throughout all of this, the field of children’s literature has continued to produce titles that inspire, comfort, celebrate, and challenge readers in remarkable ways. Each spring, a number of awards are announced to honor and highlight those books, authors, and illustrators who push the field forward with quality, creativity, and care.
Below are links to the books that we blogged about over the last year that have won recent awards and honors in the field of children’s and young adult literature. We invite you to explore our previously written blog entries for these winners and honor books. The following awards announced each spring are included in this post:
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- 2020 Ezra Jack Keats Award
- 2020 Notable Children’s Books in the English Language Arts (Children’s Literature Assembly)
- 2020 Notable Books for a Global Society (International Literacy Association)
- 2020 Best STEM Books (National Science Teachers Association)
- 2020 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People (National Council for the Social Studies)
Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln
Written by Margarita Engle
Illustrated by Rafael López
Published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers
2020 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People
Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws That Affect us Today (Revised Edition)
*note that our entry discusses the original edition
Written by Cynthia Levinson and Sanford Levinson
Published by Peachtree Publishers
2020 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People
Written by Kevin Noble Maillard
Illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal
Published by Roaring Brook Press
2020 Notable Books for a Global Society
2020 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People
Written by Kelly Starling Lyons
Illustrated by Daniel Minter
Published by Peachtree
2020 Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts
2020 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People
Written by Charlene Willing McManis, with Traci Sorell
Published by Tu Books, Lee and Low Books
2020 Notable Books for a Global Society
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People
Written by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Adapted by Jean Mendoza and Debbie Reese
Published by Beacon Press
2020 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People
Written by Isabel Thomas
Illustrated by Daniel Egnéus
Published by Bloomsbury Children’s Books
2020 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People
Written by Isabel Quintero
Illustrated by Zeke Peña
Published by Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House
2020 Ezra Jack Keats Illustrator Honor Award
Written by Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Kathleen Van Cleve
Published by Aladdin Books, Simon and Schuster
2020 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People
Written by Jerry Craft
Published by HarperCollins Children’s
2020 Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts
2020 Notable Books for a Global Society
Written by Kate and Jol Temple
Illustrated by Terri Rose Baynton
Published by Kane Miller
2020 Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts
2020 Notable Books for a Global Society
Stonewall: A Building. An Uprising. A Revolution
Written by Rob Sanders
Illustrated by Jamey Christoph
Published by Random House
2020 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People
Edited by Miranda Paul
Illustrated by Marlena Myles
Published by Millbrook Press
2020 Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts
2020 Notable Books for a Global Society
Written by Kwame Alexander
Illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Published by Versify / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2020 Notable Books for a Global Society
2020 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People
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About Grace Enriquez
Grace is an associate professor of language and literacy at Lesley University. A former English Language Arts teacher, reading specialist, and literacy consultant, she teaches and writes about children’s literature, critical literacies, and literacies and embodiment. Grace is co-author of The Reading Turn-Around and co-editor of Literacies, Learning, and the Body.
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