Josette Frank Award
Template:Short description The Josette Frank Award is an American children's literary award for fiction given annually by the Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College of Education. It "honors a book or books of outstanding literary merit in which children or young people deal in a positive and realistic way with difficulties in their world and grow emotionally and morally".[1]
Gary D. Schmidt, winner of the 2024 Josette Frank Award for his novel The Labors of Hercules Beal, wrote in his acceptance letter, "If it can be said that awards such as the Josette Frank award fight for children, then Bank Street has, for many years, fought valiantly for children. You’ve held high standards of artistic excellence AND encouraged writers and illustrators who want to talk about the world that real children inhabit, even if it’s a pretty broken world that fills those pages. Just listing those titles suggests how the award has honored books that are honest accounts, that point to a world that doesn’t always value children and their experience, a world that often wars against them. But these books assert that in that world are children whose lives are mighty and lovely, and that their immediate experience is not always to be determined by the brokenness children find around them every single day. What could possibly be more important in today’s literature than a book that a child could pick up, read, and come away saying, 'I can grow too'?"[2]
Known as the Children's Book Award from 1943 to 1997, it was renamed in honor of Josette Frank, the editor of many anthologies for children and a former Executive Director of the Child Study Association of America.[1][3] The prize to the author of the book has been provided by the Florence L. Miller Memorial Fund.
The Josette Frank Award is one of several prominent awards that the Children's Book Committee gives each year. The Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, established in 1994, is presented to "a distinguished work of nonfiction that serves as an inspiration to young people." The Claudia Lewis Award, given for the first time in 1998, honors the best poetry book of the year. The Margaret Wise Brown Board Book Award, a biennial award, presented to published or adapted board books, was established in 2023 and honored books published in 2021-2022.[4]
Winners
Children's Book Award
| Award Year | Award Distinction | Book Title (Year Published) | Author | Illustrator | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | Keystone Kids (1943) | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Harcourt Brace | ||
| 1944 | Script error: No such module "sort". (1944) | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Helen Blair | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1945 | Script error: No such module "sort". (1945) | Florence Cranell Means | Houghton Mifflin | ||
| 1946 | Heart of Danger (1946) | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Doubleday | ||
| 1947 | Judy's Journey (1947) | Script error: No such module "Sort". | J. B. Lippincott & Co. | ||
| 1948 | Script error: No such module "sort". (1948) | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Utagawa Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai | John Day Company | |
| 1949 | Paul Tiber: Forester (1949) | Maria Gleit | Ralph Ray | Charles Scribner's Sons | |
| 1950 | Partners: The United Nations and Youth (1950) | Script error: No such module "Sort". and Helen Ferris | Junior Literary Guild/Doubleday | ||
| 1951 | No Award | ||||
| 1952 | Jareb (1952) | Miriam Powell | Marc Simont | Thomas Y. Crowell | |
| Twenty and Ten (1952); later republished with minor edits as The Secret Cave (1969, 1973 Scholastic)[5] | Script error: No such module "Sort". | William Pène du Bois | Puffin | ||
| 1953 | In a Mirror (1953) | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Harper | ||
| 1954 | High Road Home (1954) | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Coward-McCann/Junior Literary Guild | ||
| The Ordeal of the Young Hunter (1954) | Jonreed Lauritzen | Hoke Denetsosie | Little, Brown and Company | ||
| 1955 | Crow Boy | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Plain Girl | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||||
| 1956 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Maurice Sendak | Harper & Row | |
| 1957 | Shadow Across the Campus | Helen Roney Sattler | Dodd Mead | ||
| 1958 | South Town | Lorenz Graham | |||
| 1959 | Jennifer | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| 1960 | Janine | Robin McKown | Messner | ||
| 1961 | Winner | Script error: No such module "sort". (translated from Norwegian by Evelyn Ramsden) | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Ulf Aas | Criterion |
| Special Citation | Script error: No such module "sort". | Hila Colman | |||
| 1962 | Script error: No such module "sort". | John Lexau | |||
| 1963 | Winner | Script error: No such module "sort". | Betty Schechter | ||
| Special Citation | Script error: No such module "sort". | Mildred Lee | |||
| 1964 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Ruth Peabody Harnden | Vee Guthrie | ||
| 1965 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | John Kauffman | ||
| 1966 | Winner | Queenie Peavy | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Special Citation | Curious George Goes to the Hospital | Margret Rey and H. A. Rey | Margret Rey and H.A. Rey | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1967 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| 1968 | Winner | What It's All About (translated from Russian by Joseph Barnes) | Vadim Frolic | Macmillan | |
| Special Citation | Where's Daddy? A Story about Divorce | Beth Goff | Susan Perl | Beacon Press | |
| 1969 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Margaretha Shemin | Coward-McCann | ||
| 1970 | Migrant Girl | Carli Laklan | |||
| Rock Star | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||||
| 1971 | Winner | John Henry McCoy | Lillie D. Chaffin | Emanuel Schongut | |
| Special Citation | The Pair of Shoes | Aline Glasgow | Symeon Shimin | Dial BFYR | |
| 1972 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| 1973 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| 1974 | Luke Was There | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Diane DeGroat | ||
| 1975 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Carol Farley | Lynn Sweat | ||
| 1976 | Somebody Else's Child | Roberta Silman | Chris Conover | ||
| 1977 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| 1978 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| 1979 | Script error: No such module "sort". | T. A. Dyer | |||
| 1980 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| 1981 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Athena Lord | |||
| 1982 | Homesick: My Own Story | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Margot Tomes | Putnam | |
| 1983 | Winner | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Special Citation | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| 1984 | One-Eyed Cat | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| 1985 | Winner | With Westie and the Tin Man | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Macmillan | |
| Special Citation | Ain't Gonna Study War No More: The Story of America's Peace Seekers | Milton Meltzer | Harper and Row | ||
| 1986 | Journey to Jo'burg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| 1987 | Rabble Starkey | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| 1988 | Winner | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Thomas Allen | Knopf |
| Special Citation | December Stillness | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| 1989 | Shades of Gray | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| 1990 | Secret City, USA | Felice Holman | |||
| 1991 | Shadow Boy | Susan E. Kirby | |||
| 1992 | Blue Skin of the Sea | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| 1993 | Make Lemonade | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| 1994 | Earthshine | Theresa Nelson | |||
| 1995 | Winner | Music from a Place Called Half Moon | Jerrie Oughton | ||
| Special Citation | The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 | Christopher Paul Curtis | Delacorte Press | ||
| 1996 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Suzanne Freeman | |||
Josette Frank Award
| Award Year | Book Title (Year Published) | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | Award Distinction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | No Turning Back: A Novel of South Africa | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| 1998 | My Louisiana Sky | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| 1999 | None | ||||
| 2000 | Figuring Out Frances | Gina Willner-Pardo | |||
| 2001 | Because of Winn-Dixie | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| 2002 | Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| 2003 | Goddess of Yesterday | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Winner | ||
| Jericho Walls | Kristi Collier | Special Citation | |||
| 2004 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| 2005 | Ida B and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| 2006 | Each Little Bird That Sings | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| 2007 | Clementine | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Marla Frazee | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Christian Burch | Special Citation | |||
| 2008 | Home of the Brave | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| 2009 | After Tupac and D Foster | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| 2010 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Winner | ||
| Where the Mountain Meets the Moon | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Special Citation | |||
| 2011 | Out of My Mind | Sharon Draper | |||
| 2012 | Bluefish | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| 2013 | Wonder | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| 2014 | Rose Under Fire | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | ||
| 2015 | Rain Reign | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Feiwel & Friends | for younger readers | |
| I'll Give You the Sun | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Dial BFYR | for older readers | ||
| 2016 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Dial BFYR | ||
| 2017 | Script error: No such module "sort". (2016) | Wendelin Van Draanen | Knopf Books for Young Readers | ||
| 2018 | Piecing Me Together (2017) | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Bloomsbury USA Children's | ||
| 2019 | A Heart in a Body in the World (2018) | Deb Caletti | Atheneum Books for Young Readers | ||
| 2020 | When the Ground Is Hard (2019) | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G. P. Putnam's Sons | ||
| 2021 | When Stars Are Scattered (2020) | Script error: No such module "Sort". and Omar Mohamed | Victoria Jamieson (illustrator) and Imam Geddy (color) | Dial BFYR | |
| 2022 | Milo Imagines the World (2021) | Matt de la Peña | Christian Robinson | G. P. Putnam's Sons | for younger readers |
| Firekeeper's Daughter (2021) | Angeline Boulley | Macmillan | for older readers | ||
| 2023 | I Must Betray You (2022) | Ruta Sepetys | Philomel Books | ||
| 2024 | The Labors of Hercules Beal (2023) | Gary D. Schmidt | Clarion/HarperCollins |
References
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- ↑ a b "Awards". The Children's Book Committee. Bank Street College of Education (bankstreet.edu). Retrieved 2015-10-29. With linked lists of past winners by decade.
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External links
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