This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in the children's literature category.
| Year | Book | Author | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | |||
| Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales and True Tales by Virginia Hamilton | Virginia Hamilton | [1] | |
| 1999 | |||
| Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told by a Freeman of Color | Patricia McKissack | [2] |
| Year | Work | Author | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | |||
| If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks | Faith Ringgold | [3] | |
| God Inside of Me | Della Reese | ||
| Happy to Be Nappy | bell hooks | ||
| The Day I Was Rich | Bill Cosby | ||
| Through My Eyes | Ruby Bridges | ||
| 2001 | |||
| Shades of Black | Sandra Pinkney | [4] | |
| Dancing in the Wings | Debbie Allen | ||
| Nikki Giovanni, Poet of the People | Judith Pinkerton Josephson | ||
| Teens Can Make It Happen | Stedman Graham | ||
| The Sound That Jazz Makes | Carole Boston Weatherford | ||
| 2002 | |||
| Just the Two of Us | Will Smith (writer) and Kadir Nelson (illustrator) | [5] | |
| 2003 | |||
| Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales | Nelson Mandela | [6] | |
| 2004 | |||
| My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | Christine King Farris | [7] | |
| The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Events that Shaped America) | Sabrina Crewe and Frank Walsh | ||
| God Created | Mark Bozzuti-Jones | ||
| Li'l Dan, the Drummer Boy: A Civil War Story | Romare Bearden | ||
| Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? | Slade Morrison | ||
| 2005 | |||
| The 1963 Civil Rights March | Sabrina Crewe and Scott Ingram | [8] | |
| African Princess: The Amazing Lives of Africa's Royal Women | Joyce Hanson | ||
| Ellington Was Not a Street | Ntozake Shange | ||
| Langston's Train Ride | Robert Burleigh | ||
| Maya's World: Angelina of Italy | Maya Angelou | ||
| 2006 | |||
| Girls Hold Up This World | Jada Pinkett Smith | [9] | |
| I Can Make a Difference | Marian Wright Edelman | ||
| The School Is Not White! A True Story of the Civil Rights Movement | Doreen Rappaport | ||
| Honey Baby Sugar Child | Alice Faye Duncan | ||
| Please, Puppy, Please | Spike Lee | ||
| 2007 | |||
| Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom | Carole Boston Weatherford | [10] | |
| Dear Mr. Rosenwald | Carole Boston Weatherford | ||
| I Like You But I Love Me | Common | ||
| Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'Round | Doreen Rappaport | ||
| Whoopi's Big Book of Manners | Whoopi Goldberg | ||
| 2008 | |||
| Nothing but Trouble: The Story of Althea Gibson | Sue Stauffacher | [11] | |
| Friendship for Today | Patricia McKissack | ||
| Elijah of Buxton | Christopher Paul Curtis | ||
| Let It Shine | Ashley Bryan | ||
| Young Pele | Lesa Cline-Ransome | ||
| 2009 | |||
| Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope | Nikki Grimes | [12] | |
| Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem | Maya Angelou | ||
| Say a Little Prayer | Dionne Warwick | ||
| We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball | Kadir Nelson | ||
| You Can Do It! | Tony Dungy | ||
| 2010 | |||
| Our Children Can Soar | Michelle Cook | [13] | |
| The Negro Speaks of Rivers | Langston Hughes | ||
| Peeny Butter Fudge | Toni Morrison | ||
| Sugar Plum Ballerinas: Toeshoe Trouble | Whoopi Goldberg | ||
| Child of the Civil Rights Movement | Paula Young Shelton |
| Year | Work | Author | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | |||
| My Brother Charlie | Holly Robinson Peete | [14] | |
| Grandma’s Gift | Eric Velasquez | ||
| Mama Miti: Wangai Maathai and the Tree of Kenya | Donna Jo Napoli | ||
| Side by Side/Lado a Lado: The Story of Delores Huerta and Cesar Chavez | Monica Brown | ||
| The Great Migration: Journey to the North | Eloise Greenfield | ||
| 2012 | |||
| You Can Be a Friend | Tony Dungy | [15] | |
| Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band | Kwame Alexander | ||
| Before There Was Mozart | Lesa Cline-Ransome | ||
| Heart and Soul | Kadir Nelson | ||
| White Water | Michael S. Bandy | ||
| 2013 | |||
| What Color is My World | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | [16] | |
| Fifty Cents and a Dream | Jabari Asim | ||
| Harlem's Little Blackbird | Renee Watson | ||
| In the Land of Milk and Honey | Joyce Carol Thomas | ||
| Indigo Blume and the Garden City | Kwame Alexander | ||
| 2014 | |||
| Nelson Mandela | Kadir Nelson | [17] | |
| I'm A Pretty Little Black Girl! | Betty K. Bynum | ||
| Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me | Daniel Beaty | ||
| Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song | Andrea Davis Pinkney | ||
| You Never Heard of Willie Mays?! | Jonah Winter | ||
| 2015 | |||
| Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Happily Ever After | Rachel Renee Russell, Nikki Russell, and Erin Russell | [18] | |
| Beautiful Moon | Tonya Bolden | ||
| Little Melba and Her Big Trombone | Katheryn Russell-Brown | ||
| Malcolm Little | Ilyasah Shabazz | ||
| Searching for Sarah Rector | Tonya Bolden | ||
| 2016 | |||
| Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America | Carole Boston Weatherford | [19] | |
| Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historical Facts | Nikki Grimes | ||
| Granddaddy’s Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box | Michael S. Bandy | ||
| If You Plant a Seed | Kadir Nelson | ||
| New Shoes | Susan Lynn Meyer | ||
| 2017 | |||
| Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas | Gwendolyn Hooks | [20] | |
| A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of the Snowy Day | Andrea Davis Pinkney | ||
| Daddy’s Little Girl | Karissa Culbreath | ||
| Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat | Javaka Steptoe | ||
| The Golden Girls of Rio | Nikkolas Smith | ||
| 2018 | |||
| Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History | Vashti Harrison | [21] | |
| Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld | ||
| Before She Was Harriet | Lesa Cline-Ransome (Author), James E. Ransome (Illustrator) | ||
| Take a Picture of Me, James VanDerZee! | Andrea J. Loney (Author), Keith Mallett (Illustrator) | ||
| The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, A Young Civil Rights Activist | Cynthia Levinson (Author), Vanessa Brantley-Newton (Illustrator) | ||
| 2019 | |||
| Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race | Margot Lee Shetterly (Author), Laura Freeman (Illustrator) | [22] | |
| Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, A Monumental American Man | Tonya Bolden | ||
| I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can't | Diane Dillon | ||
| The 5 O'Clock Band | Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews (Author), Bryan Collier (Illustrator) | ||
| The Word Collector | Peter H. Reynolds | ||
| Year | Work | Author | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | |||
| Sulwe | Lupita Nyong'o (Author), Vashti Harrison (Illustrator) | [23] | |
| A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation | Barry Wittenstein (Author), Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator) | ||
| Hair Love | Matthew A. Cherry (Author), Vashti Harrison (Illustrator) | ||
| Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment | Parker Curry (Author), Jessica Curry (Author), Brittany Jackson (Illustrator) | ||
| Ruby Finds a Worry | Tom Percival | ||
| 2021 | |||
| She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm | Katheryn Russell-Brown (Author), Eric Velasquez (Illustrator) | [24] | |
| I Promise | LeBron James (Author), Nina Mata (Illustrator) | ||
| Just Like a Mama | Alice Faye Duncan (Author), Charnelle Pinkney Barlow (Illustrator) | ||
| Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice | Nikki Grimes (Author), Laura Freeman (Illustrator) | ||
| The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver | Gene Barretta (Author), Frank Morrison (Illustrator) | ||
The following individuals received two or more Outstanding Literary Work, Children's Awards:
| The following individuals received two or more Outstanding Literary Work, Children's nominations:
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