The Jane Addams Childrens' Book Awards are given annually to those books of
exceptional quality which promote the cause of peace, social justice, world
community, and the equality of the sexes and all races.
| 2007 |
Medal Winner (Younger Children):
A Place Where Sunflowers Grow, illustrated by Felicia
Hoshino |
by Amy Lee-Tai |
Medal Winner (Older Children):
Weedflower |
by Cynthia Kadohata |
| 2006 |
Medal Winner (Younger Children):
Delivering Justice: W. W. Law and the Fight for Civil
Rights, illustrated by Benny Andrews |
by Jim Haskins |
Medal Winner (Older Children):
Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX, the Law that Changed the
Future of Girls in America |
by Karen Blumenthal |
| 2005 |
Medal Winner (Younger Children):
Sélavi, That is Life: A Haitian Story of Hope |
by Youme Landowne |
Medal Winner (Older Children):
With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's
Right to Vote |
by Ann Bausum |
| 2004 |
Medal Winner (Picture Book):
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez, illustrated by
Yuyi Morales |
by Kathleen Krull |
Medal Winner (Older Children):
Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and
Hope |
by Beverley Naidoo |
Special Commendation:
The Breadwinner Trilogy:
Book One: The
Breadwinner
Book Two: Parvana's Journey
Book Three: Mud City |
by Deborah Ellis |
| 2003 |
Medal Winner (Picture Book):
Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam, illustrated by Ann
Grifalconi |
by Walter Dean Myers |
Medal Winner (Older Children):
Parvana's Journey |
by Deborah Ellis |
| 2002 |
Medal Winner (Picture Book):
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
illustrated by Bryan Collier |
by Doreen Rappaport |
Medal Winner (Older Children):
The Other Side of Truth |
by Beverley Naidoo |
| 2001 |
Medal Winner (Picture Book):
The Composition, illustrated by Alfonso Ruano |
by Antonio Skármeta |
Medal Winner (Older Children):
Esperanza
Rising |
by Pam Muñoz Ryan |
| 2000 |
Medal Winner (Picture Book):
Molly Bannaky, illustrated by Chris K.
Soentpiet |
by Alice McGill |
Medal Winner (Older Children):
Through My Eyes |
by Ruby Bridges |
| 1999 |
Medal Winner (Picture Book):
Painted Words / Spoken Memories: Marianthe's Story, by
Aliki |
by Amy Lee-Tai |
Medal Winner (Older Children):
Bat 6 |
by Virginia Euwer Wolff |
| 1998 |
Medal Winner (Picture Book):
Seven Brave Women, illustrated by Bethanne
Andersen |
by Betsy Hearne |
Medal Winner (Older Children):
Habibi |
by Naomi Shihab Nye |
| 1997 |
Medal Winner (Picture Book):
Wilma Unlimited, illustrated by David Diaz |
by Kathleen Krull |
Medal Winner (Older Children):
Growing Up In Coal County |
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti |
| 1996 |
Medal Winner (Picture Book):
No Award |
Medal Winner (Older Children):
The
Well |
by Mildred D. Taylor |
Special Commendation:
The Middle Passage |
by Tom Feelings |
| 1995 |
Medal Winner (Picture Book):
Sitti's Secrets, illustrated by Nancy
Carpenter |
by Naomi Shihab Nye |
Medal Winner (Older Children):
Kids at Work:
Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor |
by Russell Freedman |
| 1994 |
Medal Winner (Picture Book):
This Land Is My Land |
by George Littlechild |
Medal Winner (Older Children):
Freedom's
Children |
by Ellen Levine |
| 1993 |
Medal Winner (Picture Book):
Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky |
by Faith Ringgold |
Medal Winner (Older Children):
A Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti |
by Frances Temple |
| 1992 |
Medal Winner:
Journey of the Sparrows |
by Fran Leeper Buss |
| 1991 |
Medal Winner:
The Big Book for Peace |
edited by Ann Durell and Marilyn Sachs |
| 1990 |
Medal Winner:
A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman
Porter |
by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack |
| 1989 |
Medal Winners (TIE):
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive
Slave
Looking Out |
by Virginia Hamilton
by Victoria Boutis |
| 1988 |
Medal Winner:
Waiting for the Rain: A Novel of South Africa |
by Sheila Gordon |
| 1987 |
Medal Winner:
Nobody Wants a Nuclear War |
by Judith Vigna |
| 1986 |
Medal Winner:
Ain't Gonna Study War No More: The Story of America's Peace
Seekers |
by Milton Meltzer |
| 1985 |
Medal Winner:
The Short Life of Sophie Scholl |
by Hermann Vinke |
| 1984 |
Medal Winner:
Rain of Fire |
by Fran Leeper Buss |
| 1983 |
Medal Winner:
Hiroshima No Pika |
by Toshi Maruki |
Special Recognition:
All the Colors of the Race
Children as Teachers of Peace |
by Arnold Adoff
by Our Children |
| 1982 |
Medal Winner:
A Spirit to Ride the Whirlwind |
by Athena V. Lord |
| 1981 |
Medal Winner:
First Woman in Congress: Jeannette Rankin |
by Florence Meiman White |
| 1980 |
Medal Winner:
The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian
Girl |
by David Kherdian |
West Coast Honor Book:
Woman from Hiroshima |
by Toshio Mori |
Special Recognition:
Natural History |
by M. B. Goffstein |
| 1979 |
Medal Winner:
Many Smokes, Many Moons: A Chronology of American Indian
History through Indian Art |
by Jamake Highwater |
| 1978 |
Medal Winner:
Child of the
Owl |
by Laurence Yep |
Special Recognition:
Amifika
The Wheel of King Asoka |
by Lucille Clifton
by Ashok Davar |
| 1977 |
Medal Winner:
Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust |
by Milton Meltzer |
| 1976 |
Medal Winner:
Paul Robeson |
by Eloise Greenfield |
| 1975 |
Medal Winner:
The Princess and the Admiral |
by Charlotte Pomerantz |
| 1974 |
Medal Winner:
Nilda |
by Nicholasa Mohr |
| 1973 |
Medal Winner:
The Riddle of
Racism |
by S. Carl Hirsch |
| 1972 |
Medal Winner:
The Tamarack Tree |
by Betty Underwood |
| 1971 |
Medal Winner:
Jane Addams: Pioneer of Social Justice |
by Cornelia Meigs |
| 1970 |
Medal Winner:
The Cay |
by Theodore Taylor |
| 1969 |
Medal Winner:
The Endless
Steppe |
by Esther Hautzig |
| 1968 |
Medal Winner:
The Little Fishes |
by Erick Haugaard |
| 1967 |
Medal Winner:
Queenie Peavy |
by Robert Burch |
| 1966 |
Medal Winner:
Berries Goodman |
by Emily Cheney Neville |
| 1965 |
Medal Winner:
Meeting with a Stranger |
by Duane Bradley |
| 1964 |
Medal Winner:
Profiles in Courage: Young Readers Memorial
Edition |
by John F. Kennedy |
| 1963 |
Medal Winner:
The Monkey and the Wild, Wild Wind |
by Ryerson Johnson |
| 1962 |
Medal Winner:
The Road to Agra |
by Aimee Sommerfelt |
| 1961 |
Medal Winner:
What Then, Raman? |
by Shirley L. Arora |
| 1960 |
Medal Winner:
Champions of Peace |
by Edith Patterson Meyer |
| 1959 |
No Award |
| 1958 |
Medal Winner:
The Perilous
Road |
by William O. Steele |
| 1957 |
Medal Winner:
Blue Mystery |
by Margot Benary-Isbert |
| 1956 |
Medal Winner:
Story of the Negro |
by Arna Bontemps |
| 1955 |
Medal Winner:
Rainbow Round the World |
by Elizabeth Yates |
| 1954 |
Medal Winner:
Stick-in-the-Mud |
by Jean Ketchum |
| 1953 |
Medal Winner:
People Are Important |
by Eva Knox Evans |
