Book Awards & Distinctions
for Jerome Pumphrey
31 Total Book Awards
There Was a Party for Langston (10)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2024

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2024

Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books, 2013-2024
Selection, 2023

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Illustrator Honor, 2024

Horn Book Fanfare, 2001-2024
Selection, 2023

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2023

Publishers Weekly Best Books, 2010-2024
Picture Book Selection, 2023

Randolph Caldecott Medal, 1938-2025
Honor, 2024

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2023
The Last Stand (8)

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

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

Charlotte Huck Award, 2015-2025
Winner, 2025

El día de los niños / El día de los libros, 2013-2025
Birth-PreK Selection, 2025

Ezra Jack Keats Award, 1986-2025
Author Honor, 2025

Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, 1953-2025
Picture Book Finalist, 2025

Publishers Weekly Best Books, 2010-2024
Picture Book Selection, 2024

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2024
The Old Truck (7)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2021

Ezra Jack Keats Award, 1986-2025
Author Honor, 2021

Horn Book Fanfare, 2001-2024
Selection, 2020

Publishers Weekly Best Books, 2010-2024
Picture Book Selection, 2020
Heroes by a Hair (2)

Horn Book Fanfare, 2001-2024
Selection, 2023

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Elementary Selection, 2023
It's a Sign! (2)

Children’s Favorites Award, 2015-2024
Selection, 2023

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Emergent Selection, 2022
Somewhere in the Bayou (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2023

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2022