2022 Award Winners and Honor Titles
Title: The Last Cuentista
By: Higuera, Donna Barba
Published: 2021
2022 Newbery Winner (The Newbery is given to the author of "the most distinguished contributions to American literature for children.")
2022 Pura Belpré Author Winner ( The Pura Belpré honors Latinx writers and illustrators whose children's and young adult books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience.)
Ages 10 to 13
Age recommendations are from the catalog or publisher's website.
Title: Watercress
By: Wang, Andrea
Published: 2021
2022 Caldecott Winner (The Caldecott recognizes the preceding year's "most distinguished American picture book for children".)
2022 Newbery Honor
2022 Asian/Pacific American for Literature Picture Book Winner (The award promotes Asian/Pacific American culture and heritage and is awarded based on literary and artistic merit.)
Illustrator: Jason Chin
Ages 4 to 8
Title: Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
By: Weatherford, Carole Boston
Published: 2021
2022 Coretta Scott King Author Winner (The Coretta Scott King Award recognizes an African American author and illustrator of outstanding books for children and young adults.)
2022 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Winner
2022 Caldecott Honor
2022 Sibert Honor
Illustrator: Floyd Cooper
Ages 8 to 12
Title: ¡Vamos! Let’s Cross the Bridge
By: Raúl the Third
Published: 2021
2022 Pura Belpré Illustrator Winner
Illustrator: Raúl the Third (colors by Elaine Bay)
Title: The Me I Choose to Be
By: Tarpley, Natasha
Published: 2021
2022 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award New Talent Illustrator Award
Photographers: Kahran and Regis Bethencourt
Ages 4 to 8
Title: Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
By: Grimes, Nikki
Published: 2021
Nikki Grimes is the recipient of the Coretta Scott King/Virginia Hamilton for Lifetime Achievement Award.
Check out her many books!
Legacy is recommended for ages 10 to 14.
Title: Fox at Night
By: Tabor, Corey R.
Published: 2021
2022 Geisel Winner (The Geisel is for the most distinguished beginning reader book.)
Ages 4 to 8
Title: The People's Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art
By: Levinson, Cynthia
Published: 2021
2022 Sibert Winner (The Sibert is for the most distinguished informational book for children.)
Illustrator: Evan Turk
Ages 4 to 8
Title: Amina's Song
By: Khan, Hena
Published: 2021
2022 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Children's Literature Winner
Ages 8 to 12
Title: A Bird Will Soar
By: Myers, Alison Green
Published: 2021
2022 Schneider 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.)
Ages 9 to 12
Title: My City Speaks
By: Lebeuf, Darren
Published: 2021
2022 Schneider Illustrator Winner
Illustrator: Ashley Barron
Ages 3 to 7
Title: How to Find What You're Not Looking For
By: Hiranandani, Veera
Published: 2021
2022 Sydney Taylor Author Winner (The Sydney Taylor Book Award is presented annually to outstanding books for children and teens that authentically portray the Jewish experience.)
Ages 8 to 12
Title: The Passover Guest
By: Kusel, Susan
Published: 2021
2022 Sydney Taylor Picture Book Winner
Illustrator: Sean Rubin
Ages 4 to 8
Title: Healer of the Water Monster
By: Young, Brian
Published: 2021
2022 American Indian Youth Award Middle Grade Winner
Ages 8 to 12
Title: Herizon (book on order)
By: Vandever, Daniel W.
Published: 2021
2022 American Youth Literature Award Picture Book Winner (book is from a small independent press; we are in the process of ordering)
Title: Too Bright to See
By: Lukoff, Kyle
Published: 2021
2022 Stonewall Winner (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.")
2022 Newbery Honor
Ages 10 and up
Title: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
By: Lin, Grace
Published: 2009
Grace Lin is this year's recipient of the 2022 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 her many books! She writes board books, picture books, easy readers, middle grade books.
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon is recommended for ages 8 to 12
Title: Uptown
By: Collier, Bryan
Published: 2000
Bryan Collier 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 his many books!
The recommended ages for Uptown is ages 4 to 8
Title: A Snake Falls to Earth
By: Little Badger, Darcie
Published: 2021
2022 Newbery Honor
Please note that this title is in our YA section.
Ages 12 and up
Title: Have You Ever Seen a Flower?
By: Harris, Shawn
Published: 2021
2022 Caldecott Honor
Ages 4 to 8
Title: Home Is Not a Country
By: Elhillo, Safia
Published: 2021
2022 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Please note that this title is in our YA section.
Ages 12 and up
Title: Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther's Promise to the People
By: Magoon, Kekla
Published: 2021
2022 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Please note that this title is in our YA section.
Ages 12 and up
Title: The People Remember
By: Zoboi, Ibi
Published: 2021
2022 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Illustrator: Loveis Wise
Ages 4 to 8
Title: Nina: A Story of Nina Simone
By: Todd, Traci N.
Published: 2021
2022 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Illustrator: Christian Robinson
Ages 4 to 8
Title: Soul Food Sunday
By: Bingham, Winsome
Published: 2021
2022 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Illustrator: C.G. Esperanza
Ages 4 to 8
Title: We Wait for Sun
By: Roundtree, Dovey Johnson and Katie McCabe
Published: 2021
2022 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Illustrator: Raissa Figueroa
Ages 4 to 8
Title: Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna
By: Dobbs, Alda P.
Published: 2021
2022 Pura Belpré Author Honor
Ages 8 and up
Title: Children of the Flower-Song People
By: Amescua, Gloria
Published: 2021
2022 Pura Belpré Author Honor
Ages 6 to 10
Title: De aquí como el coquí
By: Perez, Nomar
Published: 2021
2022 Pura Belpré Author Honor
2022 Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor
Ages 3 to 7
Title: May Your Life Be Deliciosa
By: Genhart, Michael
Published: 2021
2022 Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor
Illustrator: Loris Lora
Ages 5 to 7
Title: Boogie Boogie Y'All
By: Esperanza, C.G.
Published: 2021
2022 Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor
Ages 0 to 3
Title: Unlikely Friends (Beak & Ally)
By: Feuti, Norman
Published: 2021
2022 Geisel Honor
Ages 6 to 10
Title: The Great Stink: How Joe Bazalgette Solved London's Poop Pollution Problem
By: Paeff, Colleen
Published: 2021
2022 Sibert Honor
Illustrator: Nancy Carpenter
Ages 4 to 8
Title: Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown
By: Sheinkin, Steve
Published: 2021
2022 Sibert Honor
Ages 10 to 14
Title: We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know
By: Sorell, Traci
Published: 2021
2022 Sibert Honor
2022 American Indian Youth Literature Award Picture Honor Book
Illustrator: Frané Lessac
Ages 7 to 10
Title: Summertime Sleepers: Animals That Estivate
By: Stewart, Melissa
Published: 2021
2022 Sibert Honor
Illustrator: Sarah S. Brannen
Ages 6 to 9
Title: Finding Junie Kim
By: Oh, Ellen
Published: 2021
2022 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Children's Literature Honor
Ages 8 to 12
Title: A Boy Named Isamu: A Story of Isamu Noguchi
By: Yang, James
Published: 2021
2022 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Children's Literature Honor
Ages 3 to 7
Title: Stuntboy, In the Meantime
By: Reynolds, Jason
Published: 2021
2022 Schneider Author Honor
Illustrator: Raúl the Third
Ages 7 to 11
Title: A Walk in the Words
By: Talbott, Hudson
Published: 2021
2022 Schneider Illustrator Honor
Ages 4 to 8
Title: A Sky-Blue Bench
By: Rahman, Bahram
Published: 2021
2022 Schneider Illustrator Honor
Illustrator: Peggy Collins
Ages 4 to 7
Title: The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
By: Yelchin, Eugene
Published: 2021
2022 Sydney Taylor Middle Grade Honor
Ages 10 and up
Title: Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued
By: Sís, Peter
Published: 2021
2022 Sydney Taylor Picture Book Honor
Ages 6 to 8
Title: Dear Mr. Dickens
By: Churnin, Nancy
Published: 2021
2022 Sydney Taylor Picture Book Honor
Illustrator: Bethany Stancliffe
Ages 4 to 8
Title: The Christmas Mitzvah
By: Gottesfeld, Jeff
Published: 2021
2022 Sydney Taylor PIcture Book Honor
Illustrator: Michelle Laurentia Agatha
Ages 4 to 9
Title: Milk and Honey: A Year of Jewish Holidays
By: Yolen, Jane
Published: 1996
Jane Yolen is the recipient of the Sydney Taylor Body of Work Award.
Check out her many books! She writes for a variety of ages.
Milk and Honey is suggested for ages 8 to 10.
Title: Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer
By: Sorell, Traci
Published: 2021
2022 American Indian Youth Literature Award Picture Honor Book
Illustrator: Natasha Donovan
Ages 7 to 11
Title: I Sang You Down from the Stars
By: Spillett-Sumner, Tasha
Published: 2021
2022 American Indian Youth Literature Award Picture Honor Book
Illustrator: Michaela Goade
Ages 4 to 8
Title: Indigenous Peoples' Day
By: Phillips, Katrina M.
Published: 2021
2022 American Indian Youth Literature Award Middle Grade Honor Book
Illustrator: Tashia Hart
Ages 5 to 8
Title: The Used-to-Be Best Friend (Jo Jo Makoons)
By: Quigley, Dawn
Published: 2021
2022 American Indian Youth Literature Award Middle Grade Honor Book
Ages 7 to 10
Title: The Sea in Winter
By: Day, Christine
Published: 2021
2022 American Indian Youth Literature Award Middle Grade Honor Book
Ages 8 to 12
