The Jane Addams Children's Book Award annually recognizes children's books of literary and aesthetic excellence that effectively engage children in thinking about peace, social justice, global community, and equity for all people. See a complete list of all past Jane Addams Award winners.
| Subject | Author | Title | Call number | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honor | Smith, Nikkolas | The Artivist | 2023 | ||
| Winner | Joy, Angela | Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil... | 2022 | ||
| Weatherford, Carole Boston | A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington | ||||
| Hiranandani, Veera | How to Find What You're Not Looking For | ||||
| Kelkar, Supriya | Strong as Fire, Fierce as Flame | ||||
| Honor | Bruchac, Joseph | Rez Dogs | |||
| Christmas, Johnnie | Swim Team | ||||
| Duster, Michelle | Ida B. Wells, Voice of Truth | ||||
| Williams, Alicia D. | Shirley Chisholm Dared: The Story of the First Black Woman in Congress | ||||
| Winner | Lindstrom, Carole | We Are Water Protectors | 2021 | ||
| Soontornvat, Christina | A Wish in the Dark | ||||
| Honor | Chambers, Veronica | Finish the Fight | |||
| Keating, Jess | Ocean Speaks: How Marie Tharp Revealed the Ocean's Biggest Secret | ||||
| Salazar, Aida | Land of the Cranes | ||||
| Shepard, Ray Anthony | Runaway: The Daring Escape of Ona Judge | ||||
| Weatherford, Carole Boston | Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre | ||||
| Winner | Joy, Angela | Black is a Rainbow Color | 2020 | ||
| Winner | Rhodes, Jewell Parker | Ghost Boys | 2019 | ||
| Honor | Davies, Nicola | The Day War Came | |||
| Hudson, Wade | We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices | ||||
| Love, Jessica | Julian is a Mermaid | ||||
| Winner | Holbrook, Sara | The Enemy: Detroit 1954 | 2018 | ||
| Woodson, Jacqueline | The Day You Begin | ||||
| Yousafzai, Malala | Malala's Magic Pencil | ||||
| Honor | Atkins, Laura | Fred Korematsu Speaks Up | |||
| Hiranandani, Veera | The Night Diary | ||||
| Jackson, Linda Williams | Midnight Without a Moon | ||||
| Watson, Renee | Piecing Me Together | ||||
| Winner | Hopkinson, Deborah | Steamboat School | 2017 | ||
| Stelson, Caren Barzelay | Sachiko : a Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story | ||||
| Honor | Cline-Ransome, Lesa | Before She Was Harriet | |||
| Freedman, Russell | We Will Not be Silent | ||||
| Goodman, Susan E. | The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial | ||||
| Levy, Debbie | I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Made Her Mark | ||||
| Wolk, Lauren | Wolf Hollow | ||||
| Winner | Lowery, Lynda | Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom | 2016 | ||
| Meyer, Susan Lynn | New Shoes | ||||
| Honor | Danticat, Edwidge | Mama's Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation | |||
| Hilton, Marilyn | Full Cicada Moon | ||||
| Nelson, Vaunda | The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore | ||||
| Winter, Jonah | Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 | ||||
| Winner | Kanefield, Teri | The Girl From the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement | 2015 | ||
| Tonatiuh, Duncan | Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation | ||||
| Honor | Hendrix, John | Shooting at the Stars: The Christmas Truce of 1914 | |||
| Wiles, Deborah | Revolution | ||||
| Honor | Levy, Debbie | We Shall Overcome: The Story of a Song | 2014 | ||
| Winner | Levinson, Cynthia | We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March | 2013 | ||
| Woodson, Jacqueline | Each Kindness | ||||
| Honor | Bausum, Ann | Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Hours | |||
| Evans, Shane | We March | ||||
| Montgomery, Sy | Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World | ||||
| Warren, Sarah | Dolores Huerta: A Hero to Migrant Workers | ||||
| Winner | Roth, Susan | The Mangrove Tree | 2012 | ||
| Honor | Hines, Anna | Peaceful Pieces: Poems about Quilts | |||
| Lai, Thanhha | Inside Out and Back Again | ||||
| Nelson, Kadir | Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans | ||||
| Winner | Glaser, Linda | Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty | 2011 | ||
| Park, Linda Sue | A Long Walk to Water | ||||
| Honor | Brimner, Larry | Birmingham Sunday | |||
| Pinkney, Andrea D. | Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down | ||||
| Winner | Partridge, Elizabeth | Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow Weary | 2010 | ||
| Winter, Jeanette | Nasreen's Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan | ||||
| Honor | Pinkey, Andrea Davis | Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp Stride | |||
| Winner | Engle, Margarita | The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom | 2009 | ||
| Nivola, Claire A | Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai | ||||
| Honor | Carter, Anne Laurel | The Shepherd's Granddaughter | |||
| Gonzalez, Cuento Lucia | The Storyteller's Candle/La velita de los cuentos | ||||
| Nelson, Scott Reynolds | Ain't Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry | ||||
| Rumford, James | Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad | ||||
| Winner | Brimner, Larry Dane | We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin | 2008 | ||
| McCully, Emily Arnold | The Escape of Oney Judge: Martha Washington’s Slave Finds Freedom | ||||
| Honor | Curtis, Christopher Paul | Elijah of Buxton | |||
| Judge, Lita | One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II | ||||
| Perkins, Mitali | Rickshaw Girl | ||||
| Weatherford, Carole Boston | Birmingham, 1963 | ||||
| Winner | Kadohata, Cynthia | Weedflower | 2007 | ||
| Lee-Tai, Amy | A Place Where Sunflowers Grow | ||||
| Honor | Freedman, Russell | Freedom Walkers | |||
| Raven, Margo Theis | Night Boat to Freedom | ||||
| Winthrop, Elizabeth | Counting on Grace | ||||
| Winner | Blumenthal, Karen | Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX, the Law that Changed the Future of Girls in America | 2006 | ||
| Haskins, Jim | Delivering Justice: W. W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights | ||||
| Honor | Alarcon, Francisco X. | Poems to Dream Together=Poemas Para Soñar Juntos | |||
| Carvell, Marlene | Sweetgrass Basket | ||||
| Porter, Pamela | The Crazy Man |