National Book Award / Youth Book
The National Book Award for young people's books (National Book Award for Young People's Literature) has been awarded since 1996th Previously, from 1969 to 1983 a prize for Children's Books had been awarded.
The two most popular awards for children's books were Lloyd Alexander (1971, 1982) and Katherine Paterson (1977, 1979).
Between 1980 and 1983, prizes were also awarded separately for children's non-fiction and picture books or for hardcover and paperback formats .
Award winners
| year | Award winners | title | German title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best children's book | ||||
| 1969 | Avoids DeJong | Journey from Peppermint Street | not known | |
| 1970 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw | A childhood in Warsaw | |
| 1971 | Lloyd Alexander | The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian | Sebastian's wondrous adventures | |
| 1972 | Donald Barthelme | The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or The Hithering Thithering Djinn | Mathilda and the fire department, which wasn't quite what it should be | |
| 1973 | Ursula K. LeGuin | The Farthest Shore | The distant shore | |
| 1974 | Eleanor Cameron | The Court of the Stone Children | not known | |
| 1975 | Virginia Hamilton | MC Higgins the Great | MC Higgins, the great / MC Higgins, the great | |
| 1976 | Walter D. Edmonds | Bert Breen's Barn | not known | |
| 1977 | Katherine Paterson | The Master Puppeteer | Puppeteers and bandits | |
| 1978 | Judith Kohl | The View From the Oak | With the eyes of a bee | |
| Herbert Kohl | ||||
| 1979 | Katherine Paterson | The Great Gilly Hopkins | Gilly Hopkins | |
| 1980 | Joan W. Blos (hardcover) | A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal | not known | |
| Madeleine L'Engle (Paperback) | A Swiftly Tilting Planet | Through time and space | ||
| 1981 | Betsy Byars (fiction, hardcover) | The Night Swimmers | The mysterious moonlit night | |
| Beverly Cleary (Fiction, Paperback) | Ramona and Her Mother | Through time and space | ||
| Alison Cragin Herzig (Nonfiction, Hardcover) | Oh boy Babies | So i like babies | ||
| Jane Lawrence Mali (Nonfiction, Hardcover) | ||||
| 1982 | Lloyd Alexander (fiction, hardcover) | Westmark | Westmark | |
| Ouida Sebestyen (Fiction, Paperback) | Words by Heart | not known | ||
| Susan Bonners (Nonfiction) | A penguin year | not known | ||
| Maurice Sendak (Picture Books, Hardcover) | Outside Over There | When papa was gone | ||
| Peter Spier (Picture Books, Paperback) | Noah's Ark | Noah's ark in pictures | ||
| 1983 | Jean Fritz (fiction, hardcover) | Homesick: My Own Story | Little heart in China | |
| Paula Fox (Fiction, Paperback) | A place apart | not known | ||
| Joyce Carol Thomas (Fiction, Paperback) | Marked by Fire | not known | ||
| James Cross Giblin (Non-Fiction) | Chimney sweeps | not known | ||
| Barbara Cooney (Picture Books, hardcover) | Miss Rumphius | The lupine woman | ||
| William Steig (Picture Books, Hardcover) | Doctor De Soto | Doctor De Soto | ||
| Mary Ann Hoberman (Picture Books, Paperback) | A house is a house for me | not known | ||
| Betty Fraser (Illustrator) (Picture Books, Paperback) | ||||
| 1984- 1995 |
No prizes are awarded for books for children or young people | |||
| Best youth book | ||||
| 1996 | Victor Martinez | Parrot In the Oven: Mi Vida | The parrot in the oven | |
| 1997 | Han Nolan | Dancing on the Edge | not known | |
| 1998 | Louis Sachar | Holes | Holes | |
| 1999 | Kimberly Willis Holt | When Zachary Beaver Came to Town | Summer blues | |
| 2000 | Gloria Whelan | Homeless bird | not known | |
| 2001 | Virginia Euwer Wolff | True Believer | Believe in it | |
| 2002 | Nancy Farmer | The House of the Scorpion | The scorpion house | |
| 2003 | Polly Horvath | The canning season | The blueberry summer | |
| 2004 | Pete Hautman | Godless | not known | |
| 2005 | Jeanne Birdsall | The Penderwicks | The Penderwicks | |
| 2006 | MT Anderson | The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party | not known | |
| 2007 | Sherman Alexia | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian | The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian | |
| 2008 | Judy Blundell | What I Saw and How I Lied | The lies we told | |
| 2009 | Phillip Hoose | Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice | not known | |
| 2010 | Kathryn Erskine | Mockingbird | Black and white has many colors | |
| 2011 | Thanhha Lai | Inside Out & Back Again | not known | |
| 2012 | William Alexander | Goblin Secrets | not known | |
| 2013 | Cynthia Kadohata | The Thing About Luck | not known | |
| 2014 | Jacqueline Woodson | Brown Girl Dreaming | not known | |
| 2015 | Neal Shusterman | Challenger Deep | not known | |
| 2016 | John Lewis | March: Book Three | not known | |
| Andrew Aydin | ||||
| Nate Powell (artist) | ||||
| 2017 | Robin Benway | Far from the tree | not known | |
| 2018 | Elizabeth Acevedo | The Poet X | not known | |
Web links
- National Book Award Winners: 1950–2015 (English)