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The Newbery Award is an annual award given to the author of the most distinguished American literature for children published the year before.

The 2025 winner and honor books are:

• "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
• "One Big Open Sky" by Lesa Cline-Ransome
• "Magnolia Wu Unfolds it All" by Chanel Miller
• "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O'Shaughnessy
• "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

The 2024 winner and honor books are:

• "The Eyes and the Impossible" by Dave Eggers
• "Eagle Drums" by Nasugurq Rainey Hopson
• "Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir" by Pedro Martin
• "Simon Sort of Says" by Erin Bow
• "The Many Assassinations of Simir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

The 2023 winner and honor books are:

• "Freewater" by Amina Luqman-Dawson
• "Iveliz Explains it All" by Andrea Beatriz Arango
• "The Last Mapmaker" by Christina Soontornvat
• "Maizey Chen's Last Chance" by Lisa Yee

Download a complete PDF list of Newbery Award and Honor Books, 1922 to present.

This award recognizes outstanding books by African American authors and illustrators.

Winner and honor books for 2025 are:

• "My Daddy is a Cowboy" by C.G. Esperanza
• "Black Girl You Are Atlas" by Renee Watson
• "Black Star" by Kwame Alexander
• "One Big Open Sky" by Lesa Cline-Ransome
• "Coretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King" by Coretta Scott King
• "Everywhere Beauty is Harlem: The Vision of Photographer Roy DiCarava" by Gary Golio
• "Go Fourth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller" by Breana J. McDaniel

Winner and honor books for 2023 are:

• "Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual" by Carole Boston Weatherford
• "The Talk" by Alicia D. Williams
• "Victory. Stand!: Raising my Fist for Justice" by Tommie Smith
• "Freewater" by Amiana Luqman-Dawson
• "Swim Team" by Johnnie Christmas
• "Me and the Boss: A Story About Mending Love" by Michelle Edwards
• "Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler"

List of past winners can be found here.

This award is given annually to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.

2025 Award and Honor Books:

• "The Dream Catcher" by Marcelo Verdad
• "Abuelo, the Sea, and Me" by Ismee Williams
• "A Maleta Full of Treasures" by Natalia Sylvester
• "Lola" by Karla Arenas Valenti
• "Curzita and the Maricheros Ultraviolet" by Aida Salazar

2024 Award and Honor Books:

• "Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir" by Pedro Martin
• "Alebrijes" by Donna Barbara Higuera 
• "Anina Del Mar Jumps In" by Jasminne Mendez
• "Benita Y Las Criatuars Nocturnas' by Mariana Llanos
• 'Papa's Magical Water Jug-Clock" by Jesus Trejo
• "Something Like Home" by Andrea Beatriz Arango

Pura Belpre award winner PDF list 1996 to present.

• NYS 3 Apples Awards-one award each for young reader, children and teen given to books chosen entirely by youth to encourage the love of reading.
• American Indian Youth Literature Award-identifies and honors the very best writing and illustrations by Native Americans and Indigenous Peoples of North America.
• Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature-honors and recognizes individual works by Asian/Pacific American authors that highlight Asian/Pacific American cultures and experiences.
• Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal-awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in the United States in English during the preceding year.
• Schneider Family Book Award-honors an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.
• Stonewall Book Awards-awarded for books with exceptional merit relating to the LGBTQIA+ experience.
• Sydney Taylor Book Award-presented annually for outstanding books for children and teens that authentically portray the Jewish experience.