Jane Addams Children's Book Award
1953-1990
1990 |
Winner | A Long, Hard Journey | Patricia and Frederick McKissack |
| Honor Books | Number the Stars | Lois Lowry | |
| Honor Books | Shades of Gray | Carolyn Reeder | |
| Honor Books | The Wednesday Surprise | Eve Bunting | |
1989 |
Winner | Anthony Burns | Virginia Hamilton |
| Honor Books | December Stillness | Mary Downing Hahn | |
| Honor Books | The Most Beautiful Place in the World | Ann Cameron | |
| Honor Books | Rescue | Milton Meltzer | |
1988 |
Winner | Waiting for the Rain | Sheila Gordon |
| Honor Books | Nicholas, Where Have You Been? | Leo Lionni | |
| Honor Books | Trouble at the Mines | Doreen Rappaport | |
1987 |
Winner | Nobody Wants a Nuclear War | Judith Vigna |
| Honor Books | All in a Day | Mitsumaso Anno | |
| Honor Books | Children of the Maya | Brent Ashabranner | |
1986 |
Winner | Ain't Gonna Study War No More | Milton Meltzer |
| Honor Books | Journey to the Soviet Union | Samantha Smith | |
1985 |
Winner | The Short Life of Sophie Scholl | Hermann Vinke |
| Honor Books | The Island on Bird Street | Uri Olev | |
| Honor Books | Music, Music for Everyone | Vera B. Williams | |
1984 |
Winner | Rain of Fire | Marion Dane Bauer |
1983 |
Winner | Hiroshima No Pika | Toshi Maruki |
| Honor Books | The Bomb | Sidney Lenz | |
| Honor Books | If I Had a Paka | Charlotte Pomerantz | |
| Honor Books | West Coast Honor Book | Betty Morrow | |
| Special Commendation | All the Colors of the Race | Arnold Adoff | |
| Special Commendation | Children as Teachers of Peace | Our Children | |
1982 |
Winner | A Spirit to Ride the Whirlwind | Athena Lord |
| Honor Books | Let the Circle Be Unbroken | Mildred D. Taylor | |
| Honor Books | Lupita Manana | Patricia Beatty | |
1981 |
Winner | First Woman in Congress | Florence Meiman |
| Honor Books | Chase Me, Catch Nobody | Erik Haugaard | |
| Honor Books | Doing Time | Phyllis Clark, Robert Lehrman | |
| Honor Books | We are Mesquakie, We Are One | Hadley Irwin | |
1980 |
Winner | The Road From Home | David Kherdian |
| Honor Books | Woman From Hiroshima | Toshio Mori | |
| Special Commendation | Natural History | M.G. Goffstein | |
1979 |
Winner | Many Smokes, Many Moons | Jamake Highwater |
| Honor Books | Escape to Freedom | Ossie Davis | |
| Honor Books | The Great Gilly Hopkins | Katherine Paterson | |
1978 |
Winner | Child of the Owl | Laurence Yep |
| Honor Books | Alan and Naomi | Myron Levoy | |
| Honor Books | Mischling, Second Degree | Ilse Koehn | |
| Special Commendation | Amifika | Lucille Clifton | |
| Special Commendation | The Wheel of King Asoka | Ashok Davar | |
1977 |
Winner | Never to Forget | Milton Meltzer |
| Honor Books | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Mildred D. Taylor | |
1976 |
Winner | Paul Robeson | Eloise Greenfield |
| Honor Books | Dragonwings | Laurence Yep | |
| Honor Books | Song of the Trees | Mildred D. Taylor | |
| Honor Books | Z is for Zachariah | Robert C. O'Brien | |
1975 |
Winner | The Princess and the Admiral | Charlotte Pomerantz |
| Honor Books | The Eye of Conscience | Milton Meltzer | |
| Honor Books | My Brother Sam is Dead | James Lincoln Collier, Christopher Collier | |
| Honor Books | Viva la Raza! | Elizabeth Sutherland Martinez, Enriqueta Longeaux y Vasquez | |
1974 |
Winner | Nilda | Nicholasa Mohr |
| Honor Books | A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich | Alice Childress | |
| Honor Books | Men Against War | Barbara Habenstreit | |
| Honor Books | A Pocket Full of Seeds | Marilyn Sachs | |
1973 |
Winner | The Riddle of Racism | S. Carl Hirsch |
| Honor Books | The Upstairs Room | Johanna Reiss | |
1972 |
Winner | The Tamarack Tree | Betty Underwood |
1971 |
Winner | Jane Addams | Cornelia Meigs |
1970 |
Winner | The Cay | Theodore Taylor |
1969 |
Winner | The Endless Steppe | Esther Hautzig |
1968 |
Winner | The Little Fishes | Erick Haugaard |
1967 |
Winner | Queenie Peavy | Robert Burch |
1966 |
Winner | Berries Goodman | Emily Cheney Neville |
1965 |
Winner | Meeting with a Stranger | Duane Bradley |
1964 |
Winner | Profiles in Courage | John F. Kennedy |
1963 |
Winner | The Monkey and the Wild, Wild Wind | Ryerson Johnson |
1962 |
Winner | The Road to Agra | Aimee Sommerfelt |
1961 |
Winner | What then, Raman? | Shirley Arora |
1960 |
Winner | Champions of Peace | Edith Patterson Meyer |
1958 |
Winner | The Perilous Road | William O. Steele |
1957 |
Winner | Blue Mystery | Margot Benary-Isbert |
1956 |
Winner | Story of the Negro | Arna Bontemps |
1955 |
Winner | Rainbow Around the World | Elizabeth Yates |
1954 |
Winner | Stick-in-the-mud | Jean Ketchum |
1953 |
Winner | People Are Important | Eva Knox Evans |
