Book Awards & Distinctions
for Russell Freedman
4 Lifetime Achievement Awards 132 Total Book Awards
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (10)

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

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2007

Carter G. Woodson Book Award, 1974-2024
Winner, 2007

Horn Book Fanfare, 2001-2024
Selection, 2006

Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, 1953-2025
Books for Older Children Honor, 2007

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2006

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

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Honor, 2007
We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler (9)

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

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2017

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Nonfiction Winner, 2017

Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, 1953-2025
Books for Older Children Honor, 2017

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

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
World History & Culture Selection, 2017

YALSA Teens' Top Ten, 2003-2023
Finalist, 2017
Because They Marched: The People's Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America (7)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2015

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2015

Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books, 2013-2024
Selection, 2014

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

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2014

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

Teacher Favorites Award, 2015-2025
Selection, 2015
Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker's Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty (7)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2014

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2014

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

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2013

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Biography Selection, 2014

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Commended, 2014

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2013
The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights (7)

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

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2005

Carter G. Woodson Book Award, 1974-2024
Winner, 2005

John Newbery Medal, 1922-2025
Honor, 2005

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2005

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Honor, 2005
Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain (6)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2015

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2014

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

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2014

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2015

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
History, Life, Culture in the Americas Selection, 2014
Confucius: The Golden Rule (6)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2003

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2003

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2003

Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award, 1997-2025
Selection, 2003

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Honor, 2003

Skipping Stones Honor Awards, 1994-2024
Multicultural and International Honor, 2003
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery (6)

Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, 1967-2024
Winner, 1994

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1993

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Nonfiction Winner, 1994

Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, 1953-2025
Books for Older Children Honor, 1994

John Newbery Medal, 1922-2025
Honor, 1994
Vietnam: A History of the War (6)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2017

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

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2017

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
History, Life, Culture in the Americas Selection, 2017

Publishers Weekly Best Books, 2010-2024
Middle Grade Selection, 2016

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2016
Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship (4)

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

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2013

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Honor, 2013

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2012
Children of the Great Depression (4)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2006

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Nonfiction Winner, 2006

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2005

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Winner, 2006
In Defense of Liberty: The Story of America's Bill of Rights (4)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2004

Horn Book Fanfare, 2001-2024
Selection, 2003

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2003

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Honor, 2004
In the Days of the Vaqueros: America's First True Cowboys (4)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2002

Américas Award, 1993-2024
Honor, 2001

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2002

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2001
Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor (4)

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

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1994

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Nonfiction Winner, 1995

Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, 1953-2025
Books for Older Children Winner, 1995
Lafayette and the American Revolution (4)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2011

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2010
The Life and Death of Crazy Horse (4)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 1997

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1996

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 1997
Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life (4)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 1999

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1998

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Nonfiction Winner, 1999
The War to End All Wars: World War I (4)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2011

Horn Book Fanfare, 2001-2024
Selection, 2010

Publishers Weekly Best Books, 2010-2024
Nonfiction Selection, 2010

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2010
Who Was First?: Discovering the Americas (4)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2008

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2008

Horn Book Fanfare, 2001-2024
Selection, 2007
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane (4)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1991

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Nonfiction Winner, 1992

John Newbery Medal, 1922-2025
Honor, 1992
The Adventures of Marco Polo (3)

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

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Nonfiction Winner, 2007

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2006
Babe Didrikson Zaharias: The Making of a Champion (3)

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

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2000

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Commended, 2000
Lincoln: A Photobiography (3)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1987

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Nonfiction Honor, 1988

John Newbery Medal, 1922-2025
Winner, 1988
Washington at Valley Forge (3)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2009

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2008

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Honor, 2009
The Boston Tea Party (2)

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

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2012
Buffalo Hunt (2)

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Nonfiction Honor, 1989
Children of the Wild West (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1983
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1)

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Nonfiction Honor, 1991
Immigrant Kids (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1980
Indian Chiefs (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1987
An Indian Winter (1)

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Nonfiction Honor, 1993
Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille (1)
The Sinking of the Vasa: A Shipwreck of Titanic Proportions (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2018