2026 Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards
- Winner
The History of We
Winner Picture Book Category - Winner
A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Robert Alvarez
Winner Chapter Book Category - Honor
A Line Can Go Anywhere: The Brilliant, Resilient Life of Artist Ruth Asawa
Honor Picture Book Category - Honor
A Place for Us: A Story in Pictures
Honor Picture Book Category - Honor
How The Word Is Passed: Remembering Slavery and How It Shaped America
Honor Chapter Book Category - Honor
The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze
Honor Chapter Book Category
2025 Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards
- Winner
They Call Me Teach: Lessons in Freedom
Winner Picture Book Category - Winner
Not Nothing
Winner Chapter Book Category - Honor
Small Shoes, Great Strides
Honor Picture Book Category - Honor
A Map for Falasteen
Honor Picture Book Category - Honor
Black Star
Honor Chapter Book Category - Honor
Safiyya’s War
Honor Chapter Book Category
2024 Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards
- Winner
A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington
Winner Picture Book Category - Winner
The Lost Year
Winner Chapter Book Category - Honor
The Artivist
Honor Picture Book Category - Honor
That Flag
Honor Picture Book Category - Honor
Mascot
Honor Chapter Book Category - Honor
World Made of Glass
Honor Chapter Book Category
2023 Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards
- Winner
Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement
Books for Younger Children - Winner
Undercover Latina
Books for Older Children - Honor
Sanctuary: Kip Tiernan and Rosie’s Place
Books for Younger Children - Honor
Ida B. Wells, Voice of Truth: Educator, Feminist, and Anti-Lynching Civil Rights Leader,
Books for Younger Children - Honor
Yonder
Books for Older Children - Honor
Swim Team
Books for Older Children
2022 Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards
- Winner
Shirley Chisholm Dared: The Story of the First Black Woman in Congress
Books for Younger Children - Winner
How to Find What You’re Not Looking For
Books for Older Children - Honor
Strong as Fire, Fierce as Flame
Books for Older Children - Honor
Rez Dogs
Books for Older Children - Honor
Runaway: The Daring Escape of Ona Judge
Books for Younger Children - Honor
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
Books for Younger Children
