Josette Frank Award

The Josette Frank Award is an annual children's literary award for fiction that "honors a book or books of outstanding literary merit in which children or young people deal in a positive and realistic way with difficulties in their world and grow emotionally and morally".

Known as the Children's Book Award from 1943 to 1997, it was renamed in honor of Josette Frank, the editor of many anthologies for children and a former Executive Director of the Child Study Association of America.

The award is given annually by the Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College of Education. The prize to the author of the book has been provided by the Florence L. Miller Memorial Fund.

Two winners have been named in several years, none in 1951.

2015: I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson (older readers)

2014: Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein

2013: Wonder by R. J. Palacio

2012: Bluefish by Pat Schmatz

2011: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

2010: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly

2009: After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson

2008: Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate

2007: Clementine by Sara Pennypacker

2006: Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

2004: Ida B and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World by Katherine Hannigan

2003: The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale

2002: Goddess of Yesterday by Caroline B. Cooney

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