Book Awards & Distinctions
for Patricia C. McKissack
3 Lifetime Achievement Awards 81 Total Book Awards
Never Forgotten (6)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2012

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2012

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Author Honor, 2012

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Elementary Selection, 2012

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2012

Skipping Stones Honor Awards, 1994-2024
Multicultural and International Honor, 2012
What Is Given from the Heart (6)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2020

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2020

Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books, 2013-2024
Selection, 2019

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
New Talent Winner, 2020

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

Teacher Favorites Award, 2015-2025
Selection, 2020
Goin' Someplace Special (5)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2002

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2002

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Illustrator Winner, 2002

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2002
Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and Other Wily Characters (5)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2007

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2007

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2006

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2007
A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter (4)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1989

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Author Winner, 1990
Precious and the Boo Hag (4)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2006

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2006

Charlotte Zolotow Award, 1998-2025
Honor, 2006
The All-I'll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll (3)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2008

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2008

Charlotte Zolotow Award, 1998-2025
Commended, 2008
Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers (3)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2000

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Author Honor, 2000
The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural (3)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1992

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Author Winner, 1993

John Newbery Medal, 1922-2025
Honor, 1993
Let's Clap, Jump, Sing & Shout; Dance, Spin & Turn It Out!: Games, Songs, and Stories from an African American Childhood (3)

Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books, 2013-2024
Selection, 2017

Children's Favorites Award, 2015-2025
Selection, 2018

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2017
Ma Dear's Aprons (3)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1997

Charlotte Zolotow Award, 1998-2025
Commended, 1998

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 1998
Mirandy and Brother Wind (3)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1988

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Illustrator Winner, 1989

Randolph Caldecott Medal, 1938-2025
Honor, 1989
Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? (3)

Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, 1967-2024
Winner, 1993

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1992

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Author Honor, 1993
Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1994

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Author Honor, 1995
Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1994

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Author Winner, 1995
Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2004

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Author Honor, 2004
Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1996

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Author Honor, 1997
Red-Tail Angels: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1995
The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1994
Stitchin' and Pullin': A Gee's Bend Quilt (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2009

Lee Bennett Hopkins Award, 1993-2025
Honor, 2009
Best Shot in the West: The Adventures of Nat Love (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Graphic Novels Selection, 2012
Best Shot in the West: The Thrilling Adventures of Nat Love--The Legendary Black Cowboy! (1)
Carter G. Woodson: The Father of Black History (1)
A Friendship for Today (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2008
The Homerun King (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2009
Louis Armstrong: King of Jazz (1)
Madam C.J. Walker: Self-Made Millionaire (1)

Carter G. Woodson Book Award, 1974-2025
Winner, 1993
Messy Bessey's Family Reunion (1)
A Million Fish...More or Less (1)
Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba (1)
Run Away Home (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1997
A Song for Harlem (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2008
Tippy Lemmey (1)
W.E.B. DuBois (1)
Who Will Bell the Cat? (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2019
Young, Black, and Determined: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1998