Book Awards & Distinctions
for Deborah Hopkinson
92 Total Book Awards
A Band of Angels: A Story Inspired by the Jubilee Singers (6)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2000

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2000

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Picture Book Text Winner, 2000

Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, 1953-2025
Books for Younger Children Honor, 2000

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2000
Carter Reads the Newspaper (5)

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

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Biography Selection, 2019

Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award, 1997-2025
Selection, 2020

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Biography Selection, 2020
Steamboat School (5)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2017

Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books, 2013-2024
Selection, 2016

Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, 1953-2025
Books for Younger Children Winner, 2017

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Emergent Selection, 2016

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2016
Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America (5)

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

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2007

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2007

Skipping Stones Honor Awards, 1994-2024
Multicultural and International Honor, 2007
Apples to Oregon (4)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2005

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2005

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Picture Book Text Winner, 2005

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2004
Evidence!: How Dr. John Snow Solved the Mystery of Cholera (4)

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

Best STEM Books, 2017-2025
Selection, 2025

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2024
The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel (4)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2014

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Elementary Selection, 2014

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
World History & Culture Selection, 2014

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2013
Race Against Death: The Greatest POW Rescue of World War II (4)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2024

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

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2023

Teacher Favorites Award, 2015-2025
Selection, 2024
Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York 1880-1924 (4)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2004

Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, 1953-2025
Books for Older Children Honor, 2004

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2003

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Honor, 2004
Titanic: Voices from the Disaster (4)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2013

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

YALSA Nonfiction Award, 2010-2025
Finalist, 2013
A Boy Called Dickens (3)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2013

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
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, 2012-2025
Honor, 2017

Green Earth Book Award, 2005-2025
Winner, 2017

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Environment, Energy, Ecology Selection, 2017
Knit Your Bit: A World War I Story (3)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Emergent Selection, 2013

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Social Interactions & Relationships Selection, 2014

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
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, 1974-2025
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, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2016

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
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)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2004

Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, 1953-2025
Books for Younger Children Honor, 2004
On a Summer Night (2)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Pre-Kindergarten Selection, 2024
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, 1974-2025
Nonfiction Text for Older Readers Finalist, 2022

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Commended, 2022
Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale (1)
Annie and Helen (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
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, 2012-2025
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, 2015-2025
History, Life, Culture in the Americas Selection, 2021
Trim Helps Out (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Emergent Selection, 2024
Trim Sails the Storm (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Emergent Selection, 2024
Trim Sets Sail (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Emergent Selection, 2024
Under the Quilt of Night (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2003
World War II Close Up: They Saved the Stallions (1)

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