Josette Frank Award

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TheJosette Frank Award is an American children's literary award for fiction given annually by the Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College of Education. It "honors a book or books of outstanding literary merit in which children or young people deal in a positive and realistic way with difficulties in their world and grow emotionally and morally". [1]

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Known as the Children's Book Award from 1943 to 1997, it was renamed in honor of Josette Frank, the editor of many anthologies for children and a former Executive Director of the Child Study Association of America. [1] [2] The prize to the author of the book has been provided by the Florence L. Miller Memorial Fund.

The Josette Frank Award is one of several prominent awards that the Children's Book Committee gives each year. The Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, established in 1994, is presented to "a distinguished work of nonfiction that serves as an inspiration to young people." The Claudia Lewis Award, given for the first time in 1998, honors the best poetry book of the year. The Margaret Wise Brown Board Book Award, is a biennial award, presented to published or adapted board books, will be presented in 2023 with books published in 2021-2022. [3]

Winners

Award TitleAward YearAward DistinctionBook Title (Year Published)AuthorIllustratorPublisher
Children's Book Award1943Keystone Kids (1943) John R. Tunis Harcourt Brace
1944The House (1944) Marjorie Hill Allee Helen Blair Houghton Mifflin
1945 The Moved-Outers (1945) Florence Cranell Means Houghton Mifflin
1946Heart of Danger (1946) Howard Pease Doubleday
1947Judy's Journey (1947) Lois Lenski J. B. Lippincott & Co.
1948 The Big Wave (1948) Pearl S. Buck Utagawa Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai John Day Company
1949Paul Tiber: Forester (1949)Maria GleitRalph Ray Charles Scribner's Sons
1950Partners: The United Nations and Youth (1950) Eleanor Roosevelt and Helen Ferris Junior Literary Guild/Doubleday
1951No Award
1952Jareb (1952)Miriam Powell Marc Simont Thomas Y. Crowell
Twenty and Ten (1952); later republished with minor edits as The Secret Cave (1969, 1973 Scholastic) [4] Claire Huchet Bishop William Pène du Bois Puffin
1953In a Mirror (1953) Mary Stolz Harper
1954High Road Home (1954) William Corbin Coward-McCann/Junior Literary Guild
The Ordeal of the Young Hunter (1954)Jonreed LauritzenHoke Denetsosie Little, Brown and Company
1955 Crow Boy Taro Yashima
Plain Girl Virginia Sorenson
1956 The House of Sixty Fathers Meindert DeJong Maurice Sendak Harper & Row
1957Shadow Across the CampusHelen Roney Sattley Dodd Mead
1958South TownLorenz Graham
1959Jennifer Zoa Sherburne
1960Janine Robin McKown Messner
1961Winner The Road to Agra (translated from Norwegian by Evelyn Ramsden) Aimee Sommerfelt Ulf Aas Criterion
Special CitationThe Girl From Puerto Rico Hila Colman
1962The Trouble With TerryJohn Lexau
1963WinnerThe Peaceable RevolutionBetty Schechter
Special CitationThe Rock and the WillowMildred Lee
1964The High PastureRuth Peabody Harnden Vee Guthrie
1965The Empty Schoolhouse Natalie Savage Carlson John Kauffman
1966WinnerQueenie Peavy Robert Burch
Special Citation Curious George Goes to the Hospital Margret Rey and H.A. Rey Margret Rey and H.A. Rey Houghton Mifflin
1967The Contender Robert Lipsyte
1968WinnerWhat It's All About (translated from Russian by Joseph Barnes)Vadim Frolic Macmillan
Special CitationWhere's Daddy? A Story about DivorceBeth GoffSusan Perl Beacon Press
1969The Empty MoatMargaretha Shemin Coward-McCann
1970Migrant GirlCarli Laklan
Rock Star James Lincoln Collier
1971WinnerJohn Henry McCoyLillie D. ChaffinEmanuel Schongut
Special CitationThe Pair of ShoesAline Glasgow Symeon Shimin Dial BFYR
1972A Sound of Chariots Mollie Hunter
1973 A Taste of Blackberries Doris Buchanan Smith
1974Luke Was There Eleanor Clymer Diane DeGroat
1975The Garden is Doing FineCarol FarleyLynn Sweat
1976Somebody Else's ChildRoberta SilmanChris Conover
1977 The Pinballs Betsy Byars
1978The Devil in Vienna Doris Orgel
1979The Whipman is WatchingT.A. Dyer
1980A Boat to Nowhere Maureen Wartski
1981A Spirit to Ride the WhirlwindAthena Lord
1982Homesick: My Own Story Jean Fritz Margot Tomes Putnam
1983Winner The Sign of the Beaver Elizabeth George Speare
Special CitationThe Solomon System Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
1984One-Eyed Cat Paula Fox
1985WinnerWith Westie and the Tin Man C.S. Adler Macmillan
Special CitationAin't Gonna Study War No More: The Story of America's Peace Seekers Milton Meltzer Harper and Row
1986Journey to Jo'burg Beverley Naidoo
1987 Rabble Starkey Lois Lowry
1988WinnerThe Most Beautiful Place in the World Ann Cameron Thomas Allen Knopf
Special CitationDecember Stillness Mary Downing Hahn
1989 Shades of Gray Carolyn Reeder
1990Secret City, USAFelice Holman
1991Shadow BoySusan E. Kirby
1992Blue Skin of the Sea Graham Salisbury
1993 Make Lemonade Virginia Euwer Wolff
1994EarthshineTheresa Nelson
1995WinnerMusic from a Place Called Half MoonJerrie Oughton
Special Citation The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 Christopher Paul Curtis Delacorte Press
1996The Cuckoo's ChildSuzanne Freeman
Josette Frank Award1997No Turning Back: A Novel of South Africa Beverley Naidoo
1998 My Louisiana Sky Kimberly Willis Holt
1999
2000Figuring Out FrancesGina Willner-Pardo
2001 Because of Winn-Dixie Kate DiCamillo
2002Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart Vera B. Williams
2003Winner Goddess of Yesterday Caroline B. Cooney
Special CitationJericho WallsKristi Collier
2004 The Goose Girl Shannon Hale
2005Ida B and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World Katherine Hannigan
2006 Each Little Bird That Sings Deborah Wiles
2007WinnerClementine Sara Pennypacker Marla Frazee
Special Citation The Manny Files Christian Burch
2008Home of the Brave Katherine Applegate
2009 After Tupac and D Foster Jacqueline Woodson
2010Winner The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate Jacqueline Kelly
Special Citation Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Grace Lin
2011 Out of My Mind Sharon Draper
2012Bluefish Pat Schmatz
2013 Wonder R. J. Palacio
2014 Rose Under Fire Elizabeth Wein Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
2015for younger readersRain Reign Ann M. Martin Feiwel & Friends
for older readers I'll Give You the Sun Jandy Nelson Dial BFYR
2016 The War That Saved My Life (2015) Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Dial BFYR
2017The Secret Life of Lincoln Jones (2016) Wendelin van Draanen Knopf Books for Young Readers
2018 Piecing Me Together (2017) Renée Watson Bloomsbury USA Children's
2019A Heart in a Body in the World (2018) Deb Caletti Atheneum Books for Young Readers
2020When the Ground is Hard (2019) Malla Nunn GP Putnams and Sons
2021 When Stars Are Scattered (2020) Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed Victoria Jamieson (illustrator) and Imam Geddy (color) Dial BFYR
2022for younger readersMilo Imagines the World (2021) Matt de la Peña Christian Robinson GP Putnams and Sons
for older readers Firekeeper's Daughter (2021) Angeline Boulley Macmillan
2023I Must Betray You (2022) Ruta Sepetys Philomel

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References

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