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Christopher Award Winners
Listed alphabetically by author
Ada,
Alma Flor |
The
Gold Coin |
CA
1992 |
Alexander,
Martha |
I’ll
Protect You From the Jungle Beasts |
CA
1974 |
Alexander,
Sally Hobart |
Taking
Hold: My Journey into Blindness |
CA
1995 |
Anno,
Mitsumaso |
Anno’s
Alphabet: An Adventure in Imagination (Anno is a flashpoint - he is Japanese,
a remarkable artist) |
CA
1976 |
Armstrong,
William H. |
Sounder |
LCS |
Arnosky,
Jim |
Drawing
From Nature |
CA
1983 |
Ashabranner,
Brent and Melissa |
Into
A Strange Land: Unaccompanied Refugee Youth in America |
CA
1988 |
Avi |
Encounter
at Easton |
CA
1981 |
Ayer, Eleanor |
Parallel Journeys (**WW2
nonfiction) |
CA 1996 |
Babbitt, Natalie |
Tuck Everlasting |
LCS, CA 1976 |
Bancroft, Griffling |
Vanishing Wings: A Tale of
Three Birds of Prey |
CA 1973 |
Bauer, Caroline |
My Mom Travels a Lot |
CA 1982 |
Bodecker, N. M. |
It’s Raining Said John
Twaining: Danish Nursery Rhymes |
CA 1974 |
Bodecker, N. M. |
Hurry Hurry Mary Dear!
&other Nonsense Poems |
CA 1977 |
Bridgers, Sue Ellen |
All Together Now |
CA 1980 |
Briggs, Raymond |
The Snowman |
LCS |
Bullard, Pamela |
The Hardest Lesson: Personal
Stories of a School Desegregation Crisis |
CA 1981 |
Bulla, Clyde Robert (ill,
Peter Burchard) |
Pocahontas and the Strangers |
CA 1972 |
Burnford, Sheila |
The Incredible Journey: A
Tale of Three Animals |
LCS |
Calvert, Patricia |
Glennis, Before and After |
CA 1997 |
Christopher, John |
The Guardians |
CA 1971 |
Cleary, Beverly |
Dear Mr. Henshaw |
CA 1984 |
Clements, Andrew |
Frindle |
CA 1997 |
Coutant, Helen |
First Snow |
CA 1975 |
Cunningham, Julia |
Come to the Edge |
LCS, CA 1978 |
Cunningham, Julia |
Dorp Dead |
LCS |
Davar, Ashok |
The Wheel of King Asoka |
CA1978 |
DePaolo, Paula (illus. Janet
Wolf) |
Rosie and the Yellow Ribbon |
CA 1993 |
Doren, Marion Walker |
Borrowed Summer |
CA 1987 |
Drury, Roger W. |
The Champion of Merrimack
County |
CA 1977 |
Easterling, Bill (illlus
Mary Beth Owens) |
Prize in the Snow |
CA 1995 |
Edmonds, Catherine et.al. |
The New York Kid’s Book: 170
Children’s Writers and Artists Celebrate New York |
CA 1980 |
Edmonds, Walter D. |
Bert Breen’s Barn |
CA 1976 |
Engdahl, Sylvia |
This Star Shall Abide |
CA 1973 |
Enright, Elizabeth |
Gone-Away Lake |
LCS |
Eyerly, Jeannette |
Escape From Nowhere |
CA 1970 |
Feldbaum, Carl B. |
Looking the Tiger in the
Eye: Confronting the Nuclear Threat (sounds deadly earnest) |
CA 1989 |
Fenner, Carol |
Gorilla Gorilla |
CA 1974 |
Flournoy, Valerie |
The Patchwork Quilt |
CA 1986 |
Fowler, Susi and Jim (ages
4-6) |
I’ll See You When the Moon
is Full |
CA 1995 |
Fox, Michael |
The Wolf |
CA 1974 |
Fox, Paula |
One-Eyed Cat |
CA 1985 |
Friedman, Ina R. |
How My Parents Learned to
Eat (a personal favourite of mine, but not
a pricey book) |
CA 1985 |
Friis-Baastaad, Babbis |
Don’t Take Teddy! |
LCS |
Fritz, Jean |
Homesick: My Own Story |
CA 1983 |
Gellman, Rabbi Mark |
Where does God Live?
Questions and Answers for Parents and Children |
CA 1992 |
Gerson, Corinne |
Son for a Day |
CA 1981 |
Glenn, Mel |
Class Dismissed II: More
High School Poems |
CA 1987 |
Grutman, Jewel H. & Gay
Matthaei |
The Ledgerbook of Thomas
Blue Eagle |
CA 1995 |
Hamilton, Virginia |
M.C.Higgins the Great |
LCS |
Hamilton, Virginia |
The Planet of Junior Brown |
LCS |
Harrison, David L. |
The Book of Giant Stories |
CA 1973 |
Hautzig, Esther |
The Endless Steppe: A Girl
in Exile |
LCS |
Hazen, Barbara Shook |
Even if I did Something
Awful |
CA 1982 |
Hesse, Karen |
Letters from Rifka |
CA 1993 |
Hest, Amy (illus Amy Schwartz) |
The Purple Coat |
CA 1987 |
Hoban, Russell (illus
Lillian Hoban) |
Emmet Otter’s Jug Band
Christmas |
CA 1972 |
Hoose, Phillip |
It’s Our World, Too! Stories
of Young People Who Are Making a Difference |
CA 1994 |
Hopkins, Lee Bennett |
Been to Yesterdays: Poems of
a Life |
CA 1996 |
Howard, Ellen (illus. Ronald
Himler - age 4-6) |
The Log Cabin Quilt |
CA 1997 |
Hunter, Kristin |
Guests in the Promised Land |
CA 1974 |
Jarrell, Randall |
The Animal Family |
LCS |
Janssen, Pierre |
A Moment of Silence |
CA 1971 |
Kantrowitz, Mildred (illus.
Nancy Parker) |
Willy Bear |
CA 1977 |
Kaufman, William I. |
UNICEF Book of Children’s
Legends |
CA 1971 |
Kaufman, William I. |
UNICEF Book of Children’s
Poems |
CA 1971 |
Kaufman, William I. |
UNICEF Book of Children’s
Prayers |
CA 1971 |
Kaufman, William I. |
UNICEF Book of Children’s
Songs |
CA 1971 |
Kerr, M.E. |
Gentlehands |
CA 1979 |
Kherdian, David |
The Road From Home: the
Story of an Armenian Girl |
LCS |
Koehn, Ilse |
Mischling, Second Degree: My
Childhood in Nazi Germany |
LCS |
Kraft, Betsy Harvey |
Mother Jones: One Woman’s
Fight for Labor |
CA 1996 |
Kuklin, Susan |
Irrepressible Spirit:
Conversations with Human Rights Advocates |
CA 1997 |
LeGuin, Ursula |
A Wizard of Earthsea |
LCS |
Lester, Julius |
To Be a Slave |
LCS |
Levitin, Sonia |
The No-Return Trail |
LCS |
Lionni, Leo |
Alexander and the Wind-Up
Mouse |
CA 1970 |
Liston, Robert A. |
The Right to Know:
Censorship in America |
CA 1974 |
Lobel, Arnold |
On the Day Peter Stuyvesant
Sailed into Town |
CA 1972 |
Lobel, Arnold |
Frog and Toad All Year |
CA 1977 |
Locker, Thomas |
Family Farm |
CA 1989 |
Longfellow (illus. Ted Rand) |
Paul Revere’s Ride |
CA 1991 |
Macaulay, David |
Pyramid |
CA 1976 |
MacCloud, Malcolm |
A Gift of Mirrorvax |
CA 1982 |
MacLachlan, Patricia |
Sarah, Plain and Tall |
CA 1986 |
Margolis, Richard J. |
Secrets of a Small Brother |
CA 1985 |
Marsden, John |
So Much to Tell You.... |
CA 1990 |
Mazer, Norma Fox |
Dear Bill, Remember Me? And
Other Stories |
LCS, CA 1977 |
McCully, Emily Arnold |
Picnic |
CA 1985 |
McDermott, Gerald |
Anansi the Spider, a Tale
from the Ashanti |
LCS |
Meltzer, Milton |
All Times All Peoples: a
World History of Slavery |
CA 1981 |
Meltzer, Milton |
Brother Can You Spare a
Dime? The Great De |
CA 1970 |
Miles, Miska |
Annie and the Old One |
CA 1972 |
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds |
Keeping a Christmas Secret |
CA 1990 |
O’Brien, Robert C. |
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of
NIMH |
LCS |
Oneal, Zibby |
A Formal Feeling |
CA 1983 |
Paterson, Katherine |
The Great Gilly Hopkins |
CA 1979 |
Paterson, Katherine |
Bridge to Terabithia |
LCS |
Peterson, Esther Allen |
Frederick’s Alligator |
CA 1980 |
Pfister, Marcus |
The Rainbow Fish |
CA 1993 |
Polese, Carolyn |
Promise Not to Tell |
CA 1986 |
Pomerantz, Charlotte |
Posy |
CA 1984 |
Richardson, Jean (illus.
Alice Englander) |
Stephen’s Feast |
CA 1992 |
Rodgers, Mary |
A Billion for Boris |
CA 1975 |
Rodgers, Mary |
Freaky Friday |
CA 1973 |
Sachs, Marilyn |
Underdog |
CA 1986 |
Samuels, Barbara |
Duncan and Dolores |
CA 1987 |
Scheidl, Gerda Marie |
The Crystal Ball (ill.
Nathalie Duroussy) |
CA 1994 |
Schertle, Alice |
William and Grandpa |
CA 1990 |
Schroeder, Alan (illus.
Jerry Pinkney) |
Minty: A Story of Young
Harriet Tubman |
CA 1997 |
Scott, Cora Annett (illus.
Steven Kellogg - great illustrator) |
How the Witch Got Alf |
CA 1976 |
Seidler, Rosalie |
Panda Cake |
CA 1979 |
Selden, George |
Tucker’s Countryside |
CA 1970 |
Skurzynski, Gloria |
What Happened in Hamelin |
CA 1980 |
Smith, Howard G. |
Tracking the Unearthly
Creatures of Marsh and Pond |
CA 1973 |
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley |
The Headless Cupid |
CA 1972 |
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley |
The Changeling |
CA 1971 |
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley |
The Egypt Game |
LCS |
Speare, Elizabeth George |
The Sign of the Beaver |
CA 1984 |
Spier, Peter |
People |
CA 1981 |
Spier, Peter |
The Erie Canal |
CA 1971 |
Spier, Peter |
Noah’s Ark |
LCS, CA 1978 |
Spinelli, Eileen (illus.
Paul Yalowitz) |
Somebody Loves You, Mr.
Hatch |
CA 1992 |
Steele, Mary Q |
Journey Outside |
LCS |
St. George, Judith |
The Mount Rushmore Story |
CA 1986 |
Steig, William |
Dominic |
CA 1973 |
Steig, William |
Abel’s Island |
LCS |
Steig, William |
Sylvester and the Magic
Pebble |
LCS |
Stevenson, James (great
illustrator) |
We Can’t Sleep |
CA 1983 |
Strauss, Joyce |
Imagine That! Exploring Make
Believe |
CA 1985 |
Taylor, Mildred D. |
The Gold Cadillac |
CA 1988 |
Taylor, Mildred D. |
Mississippi Bridge |
CA 1991 |
Taylor, Theodore |
The Cay |
LCS |
Townsend, John Rowe |
The Islanders |
CA 1982 |
Turkle, Brinton |
The Adventures of Obadiah |
CA 1973 |
van der Rol, Ruud, &
Rien Verhoeven |
Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary |
CA1994 |
Viorst, Judith |
The Good-Bye Book |
CA 1989 |
Vireck, Phillip |
The Summer I was Lost |
LCS |
Wahl, Jan (illus William
Joyce) |
Humphrey’s Bear |
CA 1988 |
Walter, Mildred Pitts |
Mississippi Challenge |
CA 1993 |
Weiss, Ann |
Lies, Deception and Truth |
CA 1989 |
Weiss, Ann |
Save the Mustangs! How a
Federal Law is Passed (does NOT sound flashpoint-like) |
CA 1975 |
Weiss, Ann- another deadly
title - > |
The Nuclear Arms Race: Can
We Survive It? |
CA 1984 |
Williams, Barbara (illus Kay
Chorao - who is a “name” in illustration) |
Chester Chipmunk’s
Thanksgiving |
CA 1979 |
Whitfield, Philp |
Can the Whales be Saved? |
CA 1990 |
Wojciechowski, Susan |
The Christmas Miracle of
Jonathan Toomey |
CA 1996 |
Wood, Audrey |
Heckedy Peg |
CA 1988 |
Yep, Laurence |
Dragonwings |
LCA |
Yep, Laurence |
The Star Fisher |
CA 1992 |
Yolen, Jane |
The Seeing Stick |
CA 1978 |
Zolotow, Charlotte |
My Grandson Lew |
CA 1975 |