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FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE 1953-2003 |
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FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE 1953-2003 |
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The Jane Addams Children's Book Award has been presented annually since 1953 by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the Jane Addams Peace Association to the children's book that most effectively promotes the cause of peace, social justice and world community. The Jane Addams Peace Association was founded in 1948 "to foster a better understanding between the people of the world toward the end that wars may be avoided and a more lasting peace enjoyed." It is the educational affiliate of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, founded in 1915 with Jane Addams as its first president. Jane Addams was the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, which she received in 1931. Beginning in 1993, an annual award has been made for a children's picture book. The following list is for the "Longer Book," the term used to distinguish this award from the one for the picture book.
| 2003 | Deborah Ellis | Parvana's Journey |
| 2002 | Beverley Nadoo | The Other Side of truth |
| 2001 | Pam Munoz Ryan | Esperanza Rising |
| 2000 | Ruby Bridges | Through My Eyes |
| 1999 | Virginia Euwer Wolff | Bat 6 |
| 1998 | Naomi Shihab Nye | Habibi |
| 1997 | Susan Campbell Bartoletti | Growing Up in Coal Country |
| 1996 | Mildred D. Taylor | The Well |
| 1995 | Russell Freedman | Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor |
| 1994 | Ellen Levine | Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Stories |
| 1993 | Frances Temple Orchard | A Taste of Salt: A story of Modern Haiti |
| 1992 | Fran Leeper Buss & Daisy Cubias | Journey of the Sparrows |
| 1991 | Ann Durell & Marilyn Sachs, eds. | The Big Book for Peace |
| 1990 | Patricia & Fredrick McKissack | A Long Hard Journey: the Story of the Pullman Porter |
| 1989 | Virginia Hamilton | Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave |
| 1989 | Victoria Boutis | Looking Out |
| 1988 | Sheila Gordon | Waiting for the Rain: A Novel of South Africa |
| 1987 | Judith Vigna | Nobody Wants a Nuclear War |
| 1986 | Milton Meltzer | Ain't Gonna Study War No More: The Story of America's Peace Seekers |
| 1985 | Hermann Vinke | The Short Life of Sophie Scholl |
| 1984 | Marion Dane Bauer | Rain of Fire |
| 1983 | Toshi Maruki | Hiroshima No Pika |
| 1982 | Athena V. Lord | A Spirit to Ride the Whirlwind |
| 1981 | Florence Meiman White | First Woman in Congress: Jeannette Rankin |
| 1980 | David Kherdian Greenwillow | The Road from Home: The Story of an American Girl |
| 1979 | Jamake Highwater | Many Smokes, Many Moons: A Chronology of American Indian History through Indian Art |
| 1978 | Laurence Yep | Child of the Owl |
| 1977 | Milton Meltzer | Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust |
| 1976 | Eloise Greenfield | Paul Robeson |
| 1975 | Charlotte Pomerantz | The Princess and the Admiral |
| 1974 | Nicholasa Mohr | Nilda |
| 1973 | S. Carl Hirsch | The Riddle of Racism |
| 1972 | Betty Underwood | The Tamarack Tree |
| 1971 | Cornelia Meigs | Jane Addams: Pioneer of Social Justice |
| 1970 | Theodore Taylor | The Cay |
| 1969 | Esther Hautzig | The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia |
| 1968 | Erick Haugaard | The Little Fishes |
| 1967 | Robert Burch | Queenie Peavy |
| 1966 | Emily Cheney Neville | Berries Goodman |
| 1965 | Duane Bradley | Meeting with a Stranger |
| 1964 | John F. Kennedy | Profiles in Courage: Young Readers Memorial Edition |
| 1963 | Ryerson Johnson | The Monkey and the Wild, Wild Wind |
| 1962 | Aimee Sommerfelt | The Road to Agra |
| 1961 | Shirley L. Arora | What Then, Raman? |
| 1960 | Edith Patterson Meyer | Champions of Peace |
| 1959 | No award | |
| 1958 | William O. Steele | The Perilous Road |
| 1957 | Margot Benary-Isbert | Blue Mystery |
| 1956 | Arna Bontemps | Story of the Negro |
| 1955 | Elizabeth Yates | Rainbow Round the World |
| 1954 | Jean Ketchum | Stick-in-the-Mud |
| 1953 | Eva Knox Evans | People Are Important |
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