Won 2024 Creative Child Book of the Year Award
AWARDS
Our clients have been the recipients of numerous awards. Check out the list to see their accomplishments!
Won 2024 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award: Special Citation, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Nonfiction
2024 Américas Award Commended Title
Nominated 2024 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Children
Won 2024 Anna Dewdney Read-Together Award
Won Black Caucus 2023 Children & YA Nonfiction Literary Award
Finalist 2023 Ohioana Book Award
Won 2023 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Non-Fiction Honor, 2023 Pure Wow Happy Kid Award
Won Charlotte Zolotow Award, Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Finalist for the 2022 Golden Kite Award for Middle Grade Fiction
Won 2023 YALSA Award for Excellent in Nonfiction, Coretta Scott King Author Honor, Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, Black Caucus 2023 Children & YA Literary Award
Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award
Nominated 2024 Land of Enchantment Book Award, Rebecca Caudill young Readers’ Book Award
Nominated for 2023 NAACP Image Award
Finalist for the 2022 Golden Kite Award for Middle Grade Fiction
Won 2021 NCTE Charlotte Huck Award, 2021 Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor , Claudia Lewis Award , 2021 OWL Award , 2021 Southern Book Prize for Children’s Literature , 2020 Cybils Award for Best Fiction Picture Book , 2020 Nerdy Award , 2020 NCTE Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children , 2020 Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ Literature ; Nominated for Black-Eyed Susan Award
Won 2020 Nerdy Award , 2021 Children’s Africana Book Award for Best Book for Young Children , 2021 Ezra Jack Keats Writer Award ; Nominated for Red Clover Book Award ; selected as Booklist’s Top of the List 2020 Picture Book selection,
Won 2018 Caldecott Honor , 2018 Newbery Honor book , 2018 Kirkus Prize , 2018 Ezra Jack Keats Writer Award
Nominated for Black-Eyed Susan Award
Finalist for the 2020 Will Rodgers Medallion Awards (Gordon C. James) ; four starred reviews (from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, and School Library Journal)
Won the Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical work ; Finalist for 2018 PEN America Literary Award ; Semi-Finalist for MAHH Stone Book Award
selected (Derrick Barnes) as Male Author of the Year at the 2021 AAMBC Awards
Won Long Best Nonfiction and Best Short Stories/Anthologies categories at the 2020 African American Literary Awards.
Won 2020 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award (April Harrison)
Nominated for the 2018 African American Literary Awards
