Book Awards & Distinctions
for Angela Johnson
1 Lifetime Achievement Award 39 Total Book Awards
The First Part Last (6)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2004
Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2024
Author Winner, 2004
Michael L. Printz Award, 2000-2024
Winner, 2004
YALSA Teens' Top Ten, 2003-2023
Winner, 2003
All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom (4)
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2023
Emergent Selection, 2014
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2023
History, Life, Culture in the Americas Selection, 2015
SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2023
Selection, 2014
Teacher Favorites Award, 2015-2024
Selection, 2015
Bird (4)
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2024
Commended, 2005
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2005
A Certain October (3)
Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2011-2024
Selection, 2013
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2013
Horn Book Fanfare, 2001-2023
Selection, 2012
The Other Side: Shorter Poems (3)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1998
Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2024
Author Honor, 1999
Lee Bennett Hopkins Award, 1993-2024
Winner, 1999
Toning the Sweep (3)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1993
Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2024
Author Winner, 1994
A Girl Like Me (2)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2021
Horn Book Fanfare, 2001-2023
Selection, 2020
Heaven (2)
Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2024
Author Winner, 1999
I Dream of Trains (2)
Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2024
Picture Book Illustration Winner, 2004
Tell Me a Story, Mama (2)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1989
Ezra Jack Keats Award, 1986-2024
Author Winner, 1991
When I Am Old with You (2)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1990
Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2024
Author Honor, 1991
A Cool Moonlight (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2004
Daddy Calls Me Man (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1997
Do Like Kyla (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1990
The Leaving Morning (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1992
Looking for Red (1)
A Sweet Smell of Roses (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2006