Book Awards & Distinctions
for Jerome Pumphrey
33 Total Book Awards
There Was a Party for Langston (10)
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2024
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2024
Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books, 2013-2024
Selection, 2023
Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Illustrator Honor, 2024
Horn Book Fanfare, 2001-2024
Selection, 2023
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2023
Publishers Weekly Best Books, 2010-2025
Picture Book Selection, 2023
Randolph Caldecott Medal, 1938-2025
Honor, 2024
SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2025
Selection, 2023
The Last Stand (9)
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2025
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2025
Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books, 2013-2024
Selection, 2024
Charlotte Huck Award, 2015-2026
Winner, 2025
El día de los niños / El día de los libros, 2013-2025
Birth-PreK Selection, 2025
Ezra Jack Keats Award, 1986-2025
Author Honor, 2025
Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, 1953-2025
Picture Book Finalist, 2025
Publishers Weekly Best Books, 2010-2025
Picture Book Selection, 2024
SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2025
Selection, 2024
The Old Truck (7)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2021
Ezra Jack Keats Award, 1986-2025
Author Honor, 2021
Horn Book Fanfare, 2001-2024
Selection, 2020
Publishers Weekly Best Books, 2010-2025
Picture Book Selection, 2020
Heroes by a Hair (2)
Horn Book Fanfare, 2001-2024
Selection, 2023
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Elementary Selection, 2023
It's a Sign! (2)
Children's Favorites Award, 2015-2025
Selection, 2023
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Emergent Selection, 2022
Somewhere in the Bayou (2)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2023
SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2025
Selection, 2022
So Many Years: A Juneteenth Story (1)
Publishers Weekly Best Books, 2010-2025
Picture Book Selection, 2025


