Josette Frank Award
The Josette Frank Award is an American annual children's literary award for fiction that "honors a book or books of outstanding literary merit in which children or young people deal in a positive and realistic way with difficulties in their world and grow emotionally and morally".[1]
Known as the Children's Book Award from 1943 to 1997, it was renamed in honor of Josette Frank, the editor of many anthologies for children and a former Executive Director of the Child Study Association of America.[1][2] The award is given annually by the Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College of Education. The prize to the author of the book has been provided by the Florence L. Miller Memorial Fund.
Winners[]
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1943 | John R. Tunis | Keystone Kids |
| 1944 | Marjorie Hill Allee | The House |
| 1945 | The Moved-Outers | |
| 1946 | Howard Pease | Heart of Danger |
| 1947 | Lois Lenski | Judy's Journey |
| 1948 | Pearl S. Buck | The Big Wave |
| 1949 | Paul Tiber: Forester | |
| 1950 | Eleanor Roosevelt and Helen Ferris | Partners: The United Nations and Youth |
| 1951 | No Award | |
| 1952 | Jareb | |
| Claire Huchet Bishop | Twenty and Ten | |
| 1953 | Mary Stolz | In a Mirror |
| 1954 | William Corbin | High Road Home |
| 1954 | The Ordeal of the Young Hunter | |
| 1955 | Taro Yashima | Crow Boy |
| Virginia Sorenson | Plain Girl | |
| 1956 | Meindert DeJong | The House of Sixty Fathers |
| 1957 | Shadow Across the Campus | |
| 1958 | South Town | |
| 1959 | Zoa Sherburne | Jennifer |
| 1960 | Janine | |
| 1961 | The Girl From Puerto Rico | |
| Aimee Sommerfelt | The Road to Agra | |
| 1962 | The Trouble With Terry | |
| 1963 | The Peaceable Revolution | |
| The Rock and the Willow | ||
| 1964 | The High Pasture | |
| 1965 | Natalie Savage Carlson | The Empty Schoolhouse |
| 1966 | Robert Burch | Queenie Peavy |
| 1967 | Robert Lipsyte | The Contender |
| 1968 | What It's All About | |
| 1969 | The Empty Moat | |
| 1970 | Migrant Girl | |
| James Lincoln Collier | Rock Star | |
| 1971 | John Henry McCoy | |
| 1972 | Mollie Hunter | A Sound of Chariots |
| 1973 | Doris Buchanan Smith | A Taste of Blackberries |
| 1974 | Eleanor Clymer | Luke Was There |
| 1975 | The Garden is Doing Fine | |
| 1976 | Somebody Else's Child | |
| 1977 | Betsy Byars | The Pinballs |
| 1978 | Doris Orgel | The Devil in Vienna |
| 1979 | The Whipman is Watching | |
| 1980 | Maureen Wartski | A Boat to Nowhere |
| 1981 | A Spirit to Ride the Whirlwind | |
| 1982 | Jean Fritz | Homesick: My Own Story |
| 1983 | Elizabeth George Speare | The Sign of the Beaver |
| Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | The Solomon System | |
| 1984 | Paula Fox | One-Eyed Cat |
| 1985 | C.S. Adler | With Westie and the Tin Man |
| 1986 | Beverley Naidoo | Journey to Jo'burg |
| 1987 | Lois Lowry | Rabble Starkey |
| 1988 | Mary Downing Hahn | December Stillness |
| Ann Cameron | The Most Beautiful Place in the World | |
| 1989 | Carolyn Reeder | Shades of Gray |
| 1990 | Secret City, USA | |
| 1991 | Shadow Boy | |
| 1992 | Graham Salisbury | Blue Skin of the Sea |
| 1993 | Virginia Euwer Wolff | Make Lemonade |
| 1994 | Earthshine | |
| 1995 | Music from a Place Called Half Moon | |
| 1996 | The Cuckoo's Child | |
| 1997 | Beverley Naidoo | No Turning Back: A Novel of South Africa |
| 1998 | Kimberly Willis Holt | My Louisiana Sky |
| 1999 | Figuring Out Frances | |
| 2000 | Kate DiCamillo | Because of Winn-Dixie |
| 2001 | Vera B. Williams | Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart |
| 2002 | Caroline B. Cooney | Goddess of Yesterday |
| Jericho Walls | ||
| 2003 | Shannon Hale | The Goose Girl |
| 2004 | Katherine Hannigan | Ida B and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World |
| 2005 | No Award | |
| 2006 | Deborah Wiles | Each Little Bird That Sings |
| 2007 | Sara Pennypacker | Clementine |
| The Manny Files | ||
| 2008 | Katherine Applegate | Home of the Brave |
| 2009 | Jacqueline Woodson | After Tupac and D Foster |
| 2010 | Jacqueline Kelly | The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate |
| 2011 | Grace Lin | Where the Mountain Meets the Moon |
| 2012 | Pat Schmatz | Bluefish |
| 2013 | R. J. Palacio | Wonder |
| 2014 | Elizabeth Wein | Rose Under Fire |
| 2015 | Jandy Nelson (older readers) | I'll Give You the Sun |
| Ann M. Martin (young readers) | Rain Reign | |
| 2016 | Kimberly Brubaker Bradley | The War That Saved My Life |
| 2017 | The Secret Life of Lincoln Jones | |
| 2018 | Renée Watson | Piecing Me Together |
| 2019 | Malla Nunn | When the Ground is Hard |
| 2020 | Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed with Victoria Jamieson (Illus.) and Imam Geddy (color) | When Stars Are Scattered |
References[]
- ^ a b c "Awards". The Children's Book Committee. Bank Street College of Education (bankstreet.edu). Retrieved 2015-10-29. With linked lists of past winners by decade.
- ^ "Josette Frank Award". University of Nebraska at Kearney. Retrieved 2018-11-06.
External links[]
Categories:
- American children's literary awards
- Awards established in 1943