Here are some recent award-winning Children's books. See our list of award lists for even more.

Babies in the bayou by Jim Arnosky

Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson

Almost astronauts : thirteen women who dared to dream by Tanya Lee Stone

All the lovely bad ones : a ghost story by Mary Downing Hahn

The lightning thief by Rick Riordan

When you reach me by Rebecca Stead

The graveyard book by Neil Gaiman ; with illustrations by Dave McKean

Diamond Willow by Helen Frost

Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice by Phillip Hoose

Ashley Bryan : words to my life's song by Ashley Bryan, with photographs by Bill McGuinness

Down Sand Mountain by Steve Watkins

The rock and the river by Kekla Magoon

My people by Langston Hughes ; photographs by Charles R. Smith Jr

The lion & the mouse by Jerry Pinkney

The chicken of the family by Mary Amato ; illustrated by Delphine Durand

Nation by Terry Pratchett

Django by Bonnie Christensen

Anything but typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin

Marcelo in the real world by Francisco X. Stork

Children's Book Award Lists

• ALA Schneider Family Book Award
• Américas Book Award
• Boston Globe - Horn Book Awards
• Buckeye Children's Book Award
• Caldecott Medal
• Coretta Scott King Award
• Golden Kite Award Fiction
• Golden Kite Award Non-Fiction
• Golden Kite Award Picture Book Text
• Golden Kite Award Picture Book Illustration
• Mark Twain Award
• Monarch Awards
• National Book Award for Young People's Literature
• Mitten Award Winners
• NCTE Award for Poetry for Children
• Newbery Medal
• Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Award
• Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal
• Scott O'Dell Award
• 2X2 Reading List

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