2023 Award Winners and Honor Titles
Title: Freewater
By: Luqman-Dawson, Amina
Published: 2022
Age recommendations are from the catalog or publisher’s website.
2022 Newbery Award (The Newbery is given to the author of "the most distinguished contributions to American literature for children.")
2022 Coretta Scott King Author Award (The Coretta Scott King Award recognizes an African American author and illustrator of outstanding books for children and young adults.)
Ages 8 to 12
Title: Hot Dog
By: Salati, Doug
Published: 2022
2023 Caldecott Award (The Caldecott recognizes the preceding year's "most distinguished American picture book for children".)
Ages 4 to 8
Title: Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual
By: Weaterford, Carole Boston
Published: 2022
2023 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Winner
Illustrator: Frank Morrison
Ages 6 to 9
Title: Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement
By: Joy, Angela
Published: 2022
2023 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award
2023 Caldecott Honor
2023 Sibert Honor
Illustrator: Janelle Washington
Ages 6 to 10
Title: Frizzy
By: Ortega, Claribel A.
Published: 2022
2023 Pura Belpré Author Award
Illustrator: Rose Bousamra
Ages 9 to 12
Title: Where Wonder Grows
By: González, Xelena
Published: 2022
2023 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award ( The Pura Belpré honors Latino writers and illustrators whose children's and young adult books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience.)
Illustrator: Adriana M. Garcia
Ages 3 to 7
Title: I Did It!
By: Emberley, Michael
Published: 2022
2023 Geisel Award Winner (The Geisel is for the most distinguished beginning reader book.)
Ages 4 to 8
Title: Seen and Unseen
By: Partridge, Elizabeth
Published: 2022
2023 Sibert Winner (The Sibert is for the most distinguished informational book for children.)
Illustrator: Lauren Tamaki
Ages 8 to 12
Title: Maizy Chen's Last Chance
By: Yee, Lisa
Published: 2022
2023 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Author Award
2023 Newbery Honor
Ages 8 to 12
Title: From the Tops of the Trees
By: Yang, Kao Kalia
Published: 2022
2023 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Illustrator Award (The award promotes Asian/Pacific American culture and heritage and is awarded based on literary and artistic merit.)
Illustrator: Rachel Wada
Ages 5 to 9
Title: Wildoak
By: Harrington, C. C.
Published: 2022
2023 Schneider Family Book Award Author Winner
Ages 8 to 12
Title: Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, A Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion
By: Stocker, Shannon
Published: 2022
2023 Schneider Family Book Award Author Winner (The Schneider Family Book Awards honor an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.)
Illustrator: Devon Holzwarth
Ages 4 to 8
Title: The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs
By: Stiefel, Chana
Published: 2022
2023 Sydney Taylor Book Award Author Winner (The Sydney Taylor Book Award is presented annually to outstanding books for children and teens that authentically portray the Jewish experience.)
2023 Sibert Honor
Illustrator: Susan Gal
Ages 6 to 8
Title: Aviva vs. the Dybbuk
By: Lowe, Mari
Published: 2022
2023 Sydney Taylor Book Award Author Winner
Ages 8 to 12
Title: Love, Violet
By: Wild, Charlotte Sullivan
Published: 2022
2023 Stonewall Children's Literature Award (The Stonewall is "given annually to English-language children’s and young adult books of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience.")
Illustrator: Charlene Chua
Ages 6 to 8
Title: Just a Girl: A True Story of World War II
By: Levi, Lia
Published: 2022
2023 Batchelder Award (The Mildred L. Batchelder Award is for an outstanding children's book originally published in a language other than English in a country other than the United States, and subsequently translated into English for publication in the United States.)
Illustrator: Jess Mason
Translator: Sylvia Notini
Ages 8 to 12
Title: New Red Bike!
By: Ransome, James E.
Published: 2011
James E. Ransome is the recipient of the 2023 Children's Literature Legacy Award. (The purpose of the Children’s Literature Legacy Award is to recognize an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have over a period of years made a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children through books that demonstrate integrity and respect for all children’s lives and experiences.)
Check out his many books! He has illustrated many great ones!
New Red Bike is recommended for ages 4 to 8
Title: One Crazy Summer
By: Williams-Garcia, Rita
Published: 2010
Rita Williams-Garcia has been chosen to give the Children's Literature Lecture, an annual event featuring an author, critic, librarian, historian, or teacher of children’s literature.
Check out her many books!
One Crazy Summer is recommended for ages 9 to 12.
Title: Iveliz Explains It All
By: Arango, Andrea Beatriz
Published: 2022
2023 Newbery Honor
Ages 10 to 14
Title: Ain't Burned All the Bright
By: Reynolds, Jason
Published: 2022
2023 Caldecott Honor
Illustrator: Jason Griffin
Ages 12 and up
Please note: we have copies in our YA section.
Title: Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler
By: Zoboi, Ibi
Published: 2022
2023 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Ages 10 and up
Title: The Talk
By: Williams, Alicia D.
Published: 2022
2023 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Illustrator: Briana Mukodiri Uchendu
Ages 4 to 8
Title: Victory, Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice
By: Smith, Tommie
Published: 2022
2023 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
2023 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Co-Author: Derrick Barnes
Illustrator: Dawud Anyabwile
Ages 13 to 18
Please note: this title is in our YA section.
Title: Me and the Boss: A Story about Mending and Love
By: Edwards, Michelle
Published: 2022
2023 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Illustrator: April Harrison
Ages 4 to 8
Title: Swim Team
By: Christmas, Johnnie
Published: 2022
2023 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Ages 8 to 12
Title: The Coquíes Still Sing
By: González, Karina
Published: 2022
2023 Pura Belpré Author Honor
2023 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award
Illustrator: Krystal Quiles
Ages 4 to 8
Title: The Notebook Keeper: A Story of Kindness from the Border
By: Briseño, Stephen
Published: 2022
2023 Pura Belpré Author Honor
Illustrator: Magdalena Mora
Ages 4 to 8
Title: A Land of Books: Dreams of Young Mexihcah Word Painters
By: Tonatiuh, Duncan
Published: 2022
2023 Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor
Ages 4 to 8
Title: Magic: Once Upon a Faraway Land
By: Ortega, Mirelle
Published: 2022
2023 Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor
Ages 4 to 8
Title: Phenomenal AOC: The Roots and Rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
By: Denise, Anika
Published: 2022
2023 Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor
Illustrator: Loris Lora
Ages 4 to 8
Title: Miss Quinces
By: Fajardo, Kat
Published: 2022
2023 Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor
Ages 8 to 12
Title: Still Dreaming/Seguimos soñando
By: Martinez, Claudia Guadalupe
Published: 2022
2023 Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor
Illustrator: Magdalena Mora
Ages 5 to 8
Title: A Seed Grows
By: Portis, Antoinette
Published: 2022
2023 Geisel Honor
2023 Sibert Honor
Ages 4 to 8
Title: Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
By: Rockliff, Mara
Published: 2022
2023 Sibert Honor
Illustrator: R. Gregory Christie
Ages 4 to 8
Title: Troublemaker
By: Cho, John
Published: 2022
2023 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Author Honor
Ages 8 to 12
Title: Nana, Nenek & Nina
By: Ferneyhough, Liza
Published: 2022
2023 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Illustrator Honor
Ages 4 to 8
Title: Honestly Elliott
By: McDunn, Gillian
Published: 2022
2023 Schneider Author Honor
Ages 8 to 11
Title: Big Dreams, Small Fish
By: Cohen, Paula
Published: 2022
2023 Sydney Taylor Illustrator Honor
Ages 4 to 8
Title: The Very Best Sukkah: A Story from Uganda
By: Nambi, Shoshana
Published: 2022
2023 Sydney Taylor Illustrator Honor
Illustrator: Moran Yogev
Ages 4 to 8
Title: Sitting Shiva
By: Silver, Erin
Published: 2022
2023 Sydney Taylor Illustrator Honor
Illustrator: Michelle Theodore
Ages 3 to 5
Title: Black Bird, Blue Road
By: Pasternack, Sofiya
Published: 2022
2023 Sydney Taylor Author Honor
Ages 8 to 12
Title: Ellen Outside the Lines
By: Sass, A.J.
Published: 2022
2023 Sydney Taylor Author Honor
Ages 8 to 12
Title: Kapaemahu
By: Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer
Published: 2022
2023 Stonewall Honor
Co-Author: Joe Wilson
Ages 4 to 8
Title: Strong
By: Kearney, Rob
Published: 2022
2023 Stonewall Honor
Co-Author: Eric Rosswood
Illustrator: Nidhi Chanani
Ages 4 to 8
Title: Different: A Story of the Spanish Civil War
By: Montañés, Mónica
Published: 2022
2023 Batchelder Honor
Illustrator: Eva Sánchez Gómez
Translator: Lawrence Schimel
Ages 9 to 14
Title: Dragonfly Eyes
By: Cao, Wenxuan
Published: 2022
2023 Batchelder Honor
Translator: Helen Wang
Ages 9 to 12
Title: João by a Thread (on order)
By: Mello, Roger
Published: 2022
2023 Batchelder Honor
Translator: Daniel Hahn
Ages 5 to 8