Book Awards & Distinctions
for Juan Felipe Herrera
33 Total Book Awards
Imagine (7)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2019

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2019

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Character Building Selection, 2019

Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award, 1997-2025
Selection, 2019

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Self-Identity Selection, 2019
Grandma And Me At The Flea / Los meros meros remateros (5)

Américas Award, 1993-2024
Commended, 2002

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2003

Charlotte Zolotow Award, 1998-2025
Commended, 2003

Skipping Stones Honor Awards, 1994-2024
Multicultural and International Honor, 2003
Calling the Doves / El canto de las palomas (3)

Américas Award, 1993-2024
Commended, 1995

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1995

Ezra Jack Keats Award, 1986-2025
Author Winner, 1997
Cerca / Close (3)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2020
Jabberwalking (3)

International Latino Book Awards, 2000-2024
First Place Winner, 2018

Notable Poetry and Verse Novels, 2011-2025
Selection, 2019

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2018
Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes (3)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2015

Américas Award, 1993-2024
Commended, 2015

Pura Belpré Awards, 1996-2025
Author Honor, 2015
Crashboomlove: A Novel in Verse (2)

Américas Award, 1993-2024
Winner, 1999

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2000
The Upside Down Boy / El niño de cabeza (2)
Cinnamon Girl: Letters Found Inside a Cereal Box (1)

Américas Award, 1993-2024
Winner, 2005
Downtown Boy (1)

Tomás Rivera Book Award, 1996-2025
Winner, 2007
Imagina (1)

International Latino Book Awards, 2000-2024
Third Place Winner, 2021
Laughing Out Loud, I Fly: Poems in English and Spanish (1)

Pura Belpré Awards, 1996-2025
Author Honor, 2000