Book Awards & Distinctions
for Angela Johnson
1 Lifetime Achievement Award 40 Total Book Awards
The First Part Last (6)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2004

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Author Winner, 2004

Michael L. Printz Award, 2000-2025
Winner, 2004

YALSA Teens' Top Ten, 2003-2024
Winner, 2003
All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom (4)

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

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
History, Life, Culture in the Americas Selection, 2015

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2014

Teacher Favorites Award, 2015-2025
Selection, 2015
Bird (4)

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

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2005
A Certain October (3)

Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2011-2025
Selection, 2013

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2013

Horn Book Fanfare, 2001-2024
Selection, 2012
The Other Side: Shorter Poems (3)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1998

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Author Honor, 1999

Lee Bennett Hopkins Award, 1993-2025
Winner, 1999
Toning the Sweep (3)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1993

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Author Winner, 1994
Do Like Kyla (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1990
A Girl Like Me (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2021

Horn Book Fanfare, 2001-2024
Selection, 2020
Heaven (2)

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Author Winner, 1999
I Dream of Trains (2)

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Picture Book Illustration Winner, 2004
Tell Me a Story, Mama (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1989

Ezra Jack Keats Award, 1986-2025
Author Winner, 1991
When I Am Old with You (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1990

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Author Honor, 1991
A Cool Moonlight (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2004
Daddy Calls Me Man (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1997
The Leaving Morning (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1992
Looking for Red (1)
A Sweet Smell of Roses (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2006