Book Awards & Distinctions
for Javaka Steptoe
1 Lifetime Achievement Award 33 Total Book Awards
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (13)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2017

Américas Award, 1993-2024
Commended, 2017

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2017

Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books, 2013-2024
Selection, 2016

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Illustrator Winner, 2017

Horn Book Fanfare, 2001-2024
Selection, 2016

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Arts Selection, 2017

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Biography Selection, 2017

Publishers Weekly Best Books, 2010-2024
Picture Book Selection, 2016

Randolph Caldecott Medal, 1938-2025
Winner, 2017

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2016
Hot Day on Abbott Avenue (4)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2005

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2005

Charlotte Zolotow Award, 1998-2025
Commended, 2005

Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, 1953-2025
Books for Younger Children Honor, 2005
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy (4)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2019

Lee Bennett Hopkins Award, 1993-2025
Honor, 2019

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2018
In Daddy's Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers (3)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 1998

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1997

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Illustrator Winner, 1998
All of the Above (2)
Jimi Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix (2)
Do You Know What I'll Do? (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2001
The Jones Family Express (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2004
A Pocketful of Poems (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2002
Rain Play (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2009