Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award, 1997-2024
Resources for a selection of the titles recognized by this award since its inception in 1997 -- recognizing books of enduring quality that deal explicitly with language, demonstrate uniqueness in the use of language or style, or invite child response or participation.
Sponsored by Children's Literature Assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
![Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award, 1997-2024](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/images/awards/124.jpg)
- 13,562 Resources including
- 1,358 Videos
- 721 Book Readings
- 1,561 Lesson Plans
- List Analysis Report
Showing 1-48 of 757 book results
![Dreamers](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0823440559.jpg)
![Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/73500_hi.jpg)
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
by Carole Boston Weatherford and Floyd Cooper
(Selection, 2022)
68 Resources22 Awards
![Long Way Down](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1481438255.jpg)
![We Are Water Protectors](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/1250203554.jpg)
We Are Water Protectors
by Carole Lindstrom and Michaela Goade
(Selection, 2021)
66 Resources19 Awards
![Brown Girl Dreaming](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0399252517.jpg)
![Ain't Burned All the Bright](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/80064_hi.jpg)
Ain't Burned All the Bright
by Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin
(Selection, 2023)
60 Resources17 Awards
![Day You Begin, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0399246533.jpg)
![Crossover, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0544107713.jpg)
![Booked](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0544570987.jpg)
![When Stars Are Scattered](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0525553908.jpg)
When Stars Are Scattered
by Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed, and Iman Geddy
(Selection, 2021)
56 Resources20 Awards
![Beatryce Prophecy, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1536213616.jpg)
![Where the Mountain Meets the Moon](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0316114278.jpg)
![Alma and How She Got Her Name](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0763693553.jpg)
![Each Kindness](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0399246525.jpg)
![Merci Suárez Changes Gears](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/59025_hi.jpg)
![Esperanza Rising](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/0613538072.jpg)
![Genesis Begins Again](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/62864_hi.jpg)
![Inside Out & Back Again](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0061962783.jpg)
![Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/0763665312.jpg)
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
by Carole Boston Weatherford and Ekua Holmes
(Selection, 2016)
46 Resources16 Awards
![Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/66141_hi.jpg)
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
by Jason Reynolds and Alexander Nabaum
(Selection, 2020)
46 Resources12 Awards
![I Am Every Good Thing](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0525518770.jpg)
![Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0544109414.jpg)
![Raymie Nightingale](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/0763681172.jpg)
![Drawn Together](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/1484767608.jpg)
![Other Words for Home](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0062747800.jpg)
![Poem for Peter, A: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of the Snowy Day](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0425287688.jpg)
A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of the Snowy Day
by Andrea Davis Pinkney, Steve Johnson, and Lou Fancher
(Selection, 2017)
43 Resources8 Awards
![Amari and the Night Brothers](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/0062975161.jpg)
![Right Word, The: Roget and His Thesaurus](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0802853854.jpg)
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus
by Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet
(Selection, 2015)
42 Resources15 Awards
![I Talk Like a River](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0823445593.jpg)
![Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0152014373.jpg)
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez
by Kathleen Krull and Yuyi Morales
(Selection, 2004)
41 Resources9 Awards
![Invention of Hugo Cabret, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0439813786.jpg)
![One Crazy Summer](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0060760885.jpg)
![Stella by Starlight](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/1442494972.jpg)
Stella by Starlight
by Sharon M. Draper and Sarah Jane Coleman
(Selection, 2016)
41 Resources11 Awards
![Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/1481435221.jpg)
![When You Trap a Tiger](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1524715700.jpg)
![Milo Imagines the World](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0399549080.jpg)
Milo Imagines the World
by Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson
(Selection, 2022)
41 Resources10 Awards
![Red, White, and Whole](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/74570_hi.jpg)
![Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0590353403.jpg)
![Lightning Thief, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0786838655.jpg)
![One and Only Ivan, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0061992259.jpg)
The One and Only Ivan
by Katherine Applegate and Patricia Castelao
(Selection, 2013)
40 Resources6 Awards
![Lightning Dreamer, The: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0547807430.jpg)
![When the Sea Turned to Silver](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/031612592X.jpg)
![I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/1481465597.jpg)
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
by Debbie Levy and Elizabeth Baddeley
(Selection, 2017)
40 Resources12 Awards
![Before She Was Harriet](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0823420477.jpg)
Before She Was Harriet
by Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome
(Selection, 2018)
40 Resources13 Awards
![Big Mooncake for Little Star, A](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0316404489.jpg)