This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in the children's literature category.
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Winners and finalists
1990s
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|+Award winners and finalists, 1996, 1999
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!1996
| Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales and True Tales
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!1999
| Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told by a Freeman of Color
| and Fredrick L. McKissack Jr.
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2000s
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|+Award winners and finalists, 2000-2009
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! rowspan="5" |2000
| If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks
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| God Inside of Me
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| Happy to Be Nappy
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| Through My Eyes
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! rowspan="5" |2001
| Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children
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| Dancing in the Wings
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| Nikki Giovanni: Poet of the People
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| Teens Can Make It Happen
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!2002
| Just the Two of Us
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!2003
| Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales
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! rowspan="5" |2004
| My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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| The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Events that Shaped America)
| and Frank Walsh
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| God Created
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| Li'l Dan, the Drummer Boy: A Civil War Story
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| Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper?
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! rowspan="5" |2005
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| African Princess: The Amazing Lives of Africa's Royal Women
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| Ellington Was Not a Street
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| Langston's Train Ride
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| Maya's World: Angelina of Italy
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! rowspan="5" |2006
| Girls Hold Up This World
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| I Can Make a Difference
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| Honey Baby Sugar Child
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| Please, Puppy, Please
| and Tonya Lewis Lee
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! rowspan="5" |2007
| Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
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| Dear Mr. Rosenwald
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| I Like You But I Love Me
| Common
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| Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'Round
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| Whoopi's Big Book of Manners
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|Olo
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! rowspan="5" |2008
| Nothing but Trouble: The Story of Althea Gibson
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| Friendship for Today
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| Elijah of Buxton
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| Let It Shine
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| Young Pele
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! rowspan="5" |2009
| Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope
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| Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem
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| Say a Little Prayer
| , David Freeman Wooley, and Tonya Bolden
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| We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
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| You Can Do It!
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2010s
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|+Award winners and finalists, 2010-2019
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|Peeny Butter Fudge
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|Sugar Plum Ballerinas: Toeshoe Trouble
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|Child of the Civil Rights Movement
| and Raul Colon
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! rowspan="5" |2011
| My Brother Charlie
| Holly Robinson Peete and Ryan Elizabeth Peete
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| Grandma’s Gift
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| Mama Miti: Wangai Maathai and the Tree of Kenya
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| Side by Side/Lado a Lado: The Story of Delores Huerta and Cesar Chavez
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! rowspan="5" |2012
| You Can Be a Friend
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| Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band
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| Fifty Cents and a Dream
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| I'm A Pretty Little Black Girl!
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| Beautiful Moon: A Child's Prayer
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| Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historical Facts
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and Lou Fancher
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|Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court
|, with Raymond Obstfeld
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|Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, A Monumental American Man
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|A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation
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| I Promise
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| Just Like a Mama
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| Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice
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| The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver
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! rowspan="5" |2022
|Stacey’s Extraordinary Words
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|Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy
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|Change Sings
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|Time for Bed, Old House
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|When Langston Dances
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! rowspan="5" |2023
|Stacey’s Remarkable Books
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|Black Gold
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|Ablaze with Color: A Story of Painter Alma Thomas
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|Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky
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! rowspan="5" |2024
|Crowned: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora
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|How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee
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|I Absolutely, Positively Love My Spots
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|Is This Love?
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|Like Lava In My Veins
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Multiple wins and nominations
The following individuals received two or more Outstanding Literary Work, Children's Awards:
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| rowspan=1 style="text-align:center" | 2
| Carole Boston Weatherford
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| rowspan=1 style="text-align:center" | 2
| Vashti Harrison
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The following individuals received two or more Outstanding Literary Work, Children's nominations:
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| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center" | 4
| Kadir Nelson
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| Carole Boston Weatherford
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| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center" | 3
| Nikki Grimes
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| Vashti Harrison
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|rowspan="12" style="text-align:center" |2
| Kwame Alexander
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| Maya Angelou
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| Michael S. Bandy
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| Tonya Bolden
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| Alice Faye Duncan
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| Tony Dungy
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| Whoopi Goldberg
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| Patricia McKissack
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|Andrea Davis Pinkney
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| Lesa Cline-Ransome
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| Doreen Rappaport
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| Katheryn Russell-Brown
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