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 | Safadi, Shifa Saltagi | Kareem Between | Fic S1285ka | 2024 | |
| Honor | Smith, Nikkolas | The Artivist | E S655ar | 2023 | |
| Winner | Joy, Angela | Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil... | 92 T5743jo | 2022 | |
| Weatherford, Carole Boston | A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington | 92 R971we | |||
| Hiranandani, Veera | How to Find What You're Not Looking For | Fic H668ho | |||
| Kelkar, Supriya | Strong as Fire, Fierce as Flame | Fic K287st / ebook | |||
| Honor | Bruchac, Joseph | Rez Dogs | Fic B8875rd | ||
| Christmas, Johnnie | Swim Team | 741.5971 C555sw | |||
| Duster, Michelle | Ida B. Wells, Voice of Truth | 92 W4565du | |||
| Williams, Alicia D. | Shirley Chisholm Dared: The Story of the First Black Woman in Congress | 92 C542wi | |||
| Winner | Lindstrom, Carole | We Are Water Protectors | E L753we | 2021 | |
| Soontornvat, Christina | A Wish in the Dark | Fic S711wi | |||
| Honor | Chambers, Veronica | Finish the Fight | 324.623 C445fi | ||
| Keating, Jess | Ocean Speaks: How Marie Tharp Revealed the Ocean's Biggest Secret | 92 T3675ke | |||
| Salazar, Aida | Land of the Cranes | Fic S1614La | |||
| Shepard, Ray Anthony | Runaway: The Daring Escape of Ona Judge | 92 J924sh | |||
| Weatherford, Carole Boston | Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre | 976.6860 W3625un | |||
| Winner | Joy, Angela | Black is a Rainbow Color | E J8785bL | 2020 | |
| Winner | Rhodes, Jewell Parker | Ghost Boys | Fic R476gh | 2019 | |
| Honor | Davies, Nicola | The Day War Came | E D2565da | ||
| Hudson, Wade | We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices | 303.4 W361 | |||
| Love, Jessica | Julian is a Mermaid | E L897ju | |||
| Winner | Holbrook, Sara | The Enemy: Detroit 1954 | Fic H724en | 2018 | |
| Woodson, Jacqueline | The Day You Begin | E W8985da | |||
| Yousafzai, Malala | Malala's Magic Pencil | 92 Y82you | |||
| Honor | Atkins, Laura | Fred Korematsu Speaks Up | 342.730873 A873fr | ||
| Hiranandani, Veera | The Night Diary | Fic H668ni | |||
| Jackson, Linda Williams | Midnight Without a Moon | Fic J135mi | |||
| Watson, Renee | Piecing Me Together | Fic W3416pi | |||
| Winner | Hopkinson, Deborah | Steamboat School | E H797st | 2017 | |
| Stelson, Caren Barzelay | Sachiko : a Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story | 92 Y295st | |||
| Honor | Cline-Ransome, Lesa | Before She Was Harriet | 92 T885cL | ||
| Freedman, Russell | We Will Not be Silent | 943.086 F853we | |||
| Goodman, Susan E. | The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial | 92 R647go | |||
| Levy, Debbie | I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Made Her Mark | 92 G493Le | |||
| Wolk, Lauren | Wolf Hollow | Fic W862wo | |||
| Winner | Lowery, Lynda | Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom | 323.1196 L917tu | 2016 | |
| Meyer, Susan Lynn | New Shoes | E M6134ne | |||
| Honor | Danticat, Edwidge | Mama's Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation | E D193ma | ||
| Hilton, Marilyn | Full Cicada Moon | Fic H656fu | |||
| Nelson, Vaunda | The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore | FIc N4318bo | |||
| Winter, Jonah | Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 | E W7856Li | |||
| Winner | Kanefield, Teri | The Girl From the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement | 92 J65ka | 2015 | |
| Tonatiuh, Duncan | Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation | 379.263 T663se | |||
| Honor | Hendrix, John | Shooting at the Stars: The Christmas Truce of 1914 | E H498sh | ||
| Wiles, Deborah | Revolution | Fic W6763re | |||
| Honor | Levy, Debbie | We Shall Overcome: The Story of a Song | 782.4216213 L668we | 2014 | |
| Winner | Levinson, Cynthia | We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March | 323.1196 L6655we | 2013 | |
| Woodson, Jacqueline | Each Kindness | E W8985ea | |||
| 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 | 323.092 B351ma | ||
| Evans, Shane | We March | E E925we | |||
| Montgomery, Sy | Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World | 92 G753mo | |||
| Warren, Sarah | Dolores Huerta: A Hero to Migrant Workers | 92 H8875wa | |||
| Winner | Roth, Susan | The Mangrove Tree | 577.698 R845ma | 2012 | |
| Honor | Hines, Anna | Peaceful Pieces: Poems about Quilts | 811.54 H6624pe | ||
| Lai, Thanhha | Inside Out and Back Again | Fic L185in | |||
| Nelson, Kadir | Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans | 973.0496 N427he | |||
| Winner | Glaser, Linda | Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty | 92 L431gl | 2011 | |
| Park, Linda Sue | A Long Walk to Water | Fic P2357lo | |||
| Honor | Brimner, Larry | Birmingham Sunday | 323.1196 B8575bi | ||
| Pinkney, Andrea D. | Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down | 323.1196 P655si | |||
| Winner | Partridge, Elizabeth | Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow Weary | 323.1196 P275ma | 2010 | |
| Winter, Jeanette | Nasreen's Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan | 371.822 W785na | |||
| Honor | Pinkey, Andrea Davis | Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp Stride | 92 T874pi | ||
| Winner | Engle, Margarita | The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom | 811.54 E58su | 2009 | |
| Nivola, Claire A | Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai | 92 M111ni | |||
| Honor | Carter, Anne Laurel | The Shepherd's Granddaughter | Fic C32323sh | ||
| Gonzalez, Cuento Lucia | The Storyteller's Candle/La velita de los cuentos | 468.6421 G643st | |||
| Nelson, Scott Reynolds | Ain't Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry | 92 H5224ne | |||
| Rumford, James | Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad | E R936si | |||
| Winner | Brimner, Larry Dane | We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin | 92 R971br | 2008 | |
| McCully, Emily Arnold | The Escape of Oney Judge: Martha Washington’s Slave Finds Freedom | E M133es | |||
| Honor | Curtis, Christopher Paul | Elijah of Buxton | Fic C9788el | ||
| Judge, Lita | One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II | 940.53144 J92on | |||
| Perkins, Mitali | Rickshaw Girl | Fic P4496ri | |||
| Weatherford, Carole Boston | Birmingham, 1963 | 811.54 W3625bi | |||
| Winner | Kadohata, Cynthia | Weedflower | Fic K112we | 2007 | |
| Lee-Tai, Amy | A Place Where Sunflowers Grow | 495.686421 L4875pl | |||
| Honor | Freedman, Russell | Freedom Walkers | 323.1196 F8534fr | ||
| Raven, Margo Theis | Night Boat to Freedom | E R253ni | |||
| Winthrop, Elizabeth | Counting on Grace | Fic W791co | |||
| Winner | Blumenthal, Karen | Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX, the Law that Changed the Future of Girls in America | 796.082 B6582Le | 2006 | |
| Haskins, Jim | Delivering Justice: W. W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights | 92 L4166ha | |||
| Honor | Alarcon, Francisco X. | Poems to Dream Together=Poemas Para Soñar Juntos | 468.6421 A321po | ||
| Carvell, Marlene | Sweetgrass Basket | Fic C331sw | |||
| Porter, Pamela | The Crazy Man | Fic P8475cr |