Book Awards & Distinctions
for Deborah Hopkinson
91 Total Book Awards
A Band of Angels: A Story Inspired by the Jubilee Singers (6)

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

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2000

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Picture Book Text Winner, 2000

Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, 1953-2025
Books for Younger Children Honor, 2000

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2000
Carter Reads the Newspaper (5)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2020

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Biography Selection, 2019

Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award, 1997-2025
Selection, 2020

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Biography Selection, 2020
Steamboat School (5)

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

Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books, 2013-2024
Selection, 2016

Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, 1953-2025
Books for Younger Children Winner, 2017

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

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2016
Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America (5)

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

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2007

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

Skipping Stones Honor Awards, 1994-2024
Multicultural and International Honor, 2007
Apples to Oregon (4)

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

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2005

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Picture Book Text Winner, 2005

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2004
Evidence!: How Dr. John Snow Solved the Mystery of Cholera (4)

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

Best STEM Books, 2017-2025
Selection, 2025

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2024
The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel (4)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2014

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

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
World History & Culture Selection, 2014

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2013
Race Against Death: The Greatest POW Rescue of World War II (4)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2024

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2023

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2023

Teacher Favorites Award, 2015-2025
Selection, 2024
Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York 1880-1924 (4)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2004

Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, 1953-2025
Books for Older Children Honor, 2004

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2003

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Honor, 2004
Titanic: Voices from the Disaster (4)

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

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

YALSA Nonfiction Award, 2010-2025
Finalist, 2013
A Boy Called Dickens (3)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2013

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

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2012
Follow the Moon Home: A Tale of One Idea, Twenty Kids, and a Hundred Sea Turtles (3)

Cook Prize, 2012-2025
Honor, 2017

Green Earth Book Award, 2005-2024
Winner, 2017

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Environment, Energy, Ecology Selection, 2017
Knit Your Bit: A World War I Story (3)

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

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Social Interactions & Relationships Selection, 2014

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Social Interactions & Relationships Selection, 2014
Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building (3)
Bandit's Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket (2)
Bluebird Summer (2)

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Picture Book Text Honor, 2002
Butterflies Belong Here: A Story of One Idea, Thirty Kids, and a World of Butterflies (2)
Dive!: World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific (2)

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

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Commended, 2017
Fannie in the Kitchen (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2002

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2001
Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2004

Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, 1953-2025
Books for Younger Children Honor, 2004
We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport (2)
We Must Not Forget: Holocaust Stories of Survival and Resistance (2)

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Nonfiction Text for Older Readers Finalist, 2022

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Commended, 2022
Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale (1)
Annie and Helen (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Biography Selection, 2012
Birdie's Lighthouse (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1997
Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark (1)
D-Day: The World War II Invasion That Changed History (1)
The Deadliest Hurricanes Then and Now (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
High Interest Selection, 2022
Home on the Range: John A. Lomax and His Cowboy Songs (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2010
The Humblebee Hunter (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2011
Maria's Comet (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2000
On a Summer Night (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Pre-Kindergarten Selection, 2024
Saving Strawberry Farm (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2006
The Story of a Story (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2022
Thanks to Frances Perkins: Fighter for Workers' Rights (1)

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
History, Life, Culture in the Americas Selection, 2021
Trim Helps Out (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Emergent Selection, 2024
Trim Sails the Storm (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Emergent Selection, 2024
Trim Sets Sail (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Emergent Selection, 2024
Under the Quilt of Night (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2003
World War II Close Up: They Saved the Stallions (1)

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