AWARDS

Our clients have been the recipients of numerous awards. Check out the list to see their accomplishments!
H Is For Harlem

2023 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Non-Fiction Honor Book

Me And The Boss Scaled

Finalist for the 2022 Golden Kite Award for Middle Grade Fiction

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book

Victory Stand With Medals

Won 2023 YALSA Award for Excellent in Nonfiction

Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award

Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book

Principles

Nominated for 2023 NAACP Image Award

Mighty Inside E

Finalist for the 2022 Golden Kite Award for Middle Grade Fiction

Won 2022 Washington State Book Award

Shirley Chisholm Dared
Jd And The Great Barber Battle
I Am Every Good Thing
Nana Akua Goes To School
Crown An Ode To The Fresh Cut

Won 2018 Caldecott Honor , 2018 Newbery Honor book , 2018 Kirkus Prize , 2018 Ezra Jack Keats Writer Award

Nominated for Black-Eyed Susan Award

Let Er Buck George Fletcher The Peoples Champion

Finalist for the 2020 Will Rodgers Medallion Awards (Gordon C. James) ; four starred reviews (from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, and School Library Journal)

Chester B. Himes A Biography

Won the Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical work ; Finalist for 2018 PEN America Literary Award ; Semi-Finalist for MAHH Stone Book Award

Derrick Barnes

selected (Derrick Barnes) as Male Author of the Year at the 2021 AAMBC Awards

We Want Our Bodies Back
Conversations In Black

Won Long Best Nonfiction and Best Short Stories/Anthologies categories at the 2020 African American Literary Awards.

What Is Given From The Heart
Climb By Michelle Gadsden Williams

Nominated for the 2018 African American Literary Awards

Defining Moments In Black History Reading Between The Lies
Gordon James