Jane Addams Children's Book Award

The Jane Addams Children's Book Award is given annually to a children's book published the preceding year that advances the causes of peace and social equality. The awards have been presented annually since 1953. They were previously given jointly by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the Jane Addams Peace Association, but are now presented solely by the Jane Addams Peace Association.

History

The Jane Addams Children's Book Award was originally awarded to one book per year without categories. A Picture Book category was added in 1993; the award is currently given to two books annually, one for older children and one for younger children. In 2003, the time of year the award is given changed from September, honoring Jane Addams' birthday, to April, honoring the WILPF's birthday.
In the sixty-plus years of the award’s history, there has been one public controversy over the selection of its winner. In 1970, the award was given to The Cay by Theodore Taylor, a book which became highly criticized in the years since its publication. In 1974, the current award chair, who was not the chair at the time the award was given to The Cay, publicly stated that she thought it was a mistake to have named The Cay an Addams Award winner. In response, Taylor, who saw the work as "a subtle plea for better race relations and more understanding," returned the Award "by choice, not in anger, but with troubling questions." In later years, Taylor reported that the Award had been rescinded. Even though The Cay remains on the list of Addams Award winners, Taylor's claim is widely thought to be true and has become a part of reading and discussing the book with young people today.

Recipients

Year	Category	Book	Author	Illustrator	Citation
2019	Book for Older Children	Ghost Boys		—	Award
2019	Book for Older Children			—	Honor
2019	Book for Older Children	We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices	and Cheryl Willis Hudson	—	Honor
2019	Book for Younger Children				Award
2019	Book for Younger Children				Honor
2019	Book for Younger Children				Honor
2018	Book for Older Children	The Enemy: Detroit 1954			Award
2018	Book for Older Children	Fred Korematsu Speaks Up	and Stan Yogi		Honor
2018	Book for Older Children	Midnight Without A Moon		—	Honor
2018	Book for Older Children	Piecing Me Together		—	Honor
2018	Book for Younger Children	Malala's Magic Pencil			Award
2018	Book for Younger Children	Before She Was Harriet			Honor
2017	Book for Older Children	Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story		—	Award
2017	Book for Older Children	We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler		—	Honor
2017	Book for Older Children	Wolf Hollow		—	Honor
2017	Book for Younger Children	Steamboat School			Award
2017	Book for Younger Children	First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial			Honor
2017	Book for Younger Children	I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark			Honor
2016	Book for Older Children	Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March			Award
2016	Book for Older Children	Full Cicada Moon		—	Honor
2016	Book for Younger Children	New Shoes			Award
2016	Book for Younger Children	Lillian’s Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965			Honor
2016	Book for Younger Children	Mama’s Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation			Honor
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