Book Awards & Distinctions
for Deborah Hopkinson
82 Total Book Awards
A Band of Angels: A Story Inspired by the Jubilee Singers (6)
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2024
Commended, 2000
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2000
Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2024
Picture Book Text Winner, 2000
Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2024
Selection, 2000
Carter Reads the Newspaper (5)
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2024
Commended, 2020
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2023
Biography Selection, 2019
Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award, 1997-2023
Selection, 2020
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2023
Biography Selection, 2020
Steamboat School (5)
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2024
Commended, 2017
Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books, 2013-2023
Selection, 2016
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2023
Emergent Selection, 2016
Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2016
Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America (5)
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2024
Commended, 2007
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2007
Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2024
Selection, 2007
Skipping Stones Honor Awards, 1994-2023
Multicultural and International Honor, 2007
Apples to Oregon (4)
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2024
Commended, 2005
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2005
Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2024
Picture Book Text Winner, 2005
Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2004
The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel (4)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2014
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2023
Elementary Selection, 2014
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2023
World History & Culture Selection, 2014
SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2023
Selection, 2013
Race Against Death: The Greatest POW Rescue of World War II (4)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2024
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2023
Nonfiction Selection, 2023
SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2023
Selection, 2023
Teacher Favorites Award, 2015-2024
Selection, 2024
Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York 1880-1924 (4)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2004
Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2003
Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2024
Honor, 2004
Titanic: Voices from the Disaster (4)
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2024
Commended, 2013
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2023
Nonfiction Selection, 2012
YALSA Nonfiction Award, 2010-2024
Finalist, 2013
A Boy Called Dickens (3)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2013
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2023
Elementary Selection, 2012
Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2012
Follow the Moon Home: A Tale of One Idea, Twenty Kids, and a Hundred Sea Turtles (3)
Cook Prize, 2012-2024
Honor, 2017
Green Earth Book Award, 2005-2024
Winner, 2017
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2023
Environment, Energy, Ecology Selection, 2017
Knit Your Bit: A World War I Story (3)
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2023
Emergent Selection, 2013
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2023
Social Interactions & Relationships Selection, 2014
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2023
Social Interactions & Relationships Selection, 2014
Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building (3)
Bandit's Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket (2)
Bluebird Summer (2)
Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2024
Picture Book Text Honor, 2002
Butterflies Belong Here: A Story of One Idea, Thirty Kids, and a World of Butterflies (2)
Dive!: World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific (2)
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2023
Nonfiction Selection, 2016
Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2024
Commended, 2017
Fannie in the Kitchen (2)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2002
Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2001
Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings (2)
We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport (2)
We Must Not Forget: Holocaust Stories of Survival and Resistance (2)
Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2024
Nonfiction Text for Older Readers Finalist, 2022
Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2024
Commended, 2022
Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale (1)
Annie and Helen (1)
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2023
Biography Selection, 2012
Birdie's Lighthouse (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1997
Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark (1)
D-Day: The World War II Invasion That Changed History (1)
The Deadliest Hurricanes Then and Now (1)
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2023
High Interest Selection, 2022
Home on the Range: John A. Lomax and His Cowboy Songs (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2010
The Humblebee Hunter (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2011
Maria's Comet (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2000
Saving Strawberry Farm (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2006
The Story of a Story (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2022
Thanks to Frances Perkins: Fighter for Workers' Rights (1)
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2023
History, Life, Culture in the Americas Selection, 2021
Under the Quilt of Night (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2003