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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