Book Awards & Distinctions
for Michele Wood
23 Total Book Awards
Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom (7)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2021

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2021

John Newbery Medal, 1922-2025
Honor, 2021

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Biography Selection, 2020

Notable Poetry and Verse Novels, 2011-2025
Selection, 2021

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Biography Selection, 2021
I See the Rhythm (5)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 1999

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1998

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Illustrator Winner, 1999

Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, 1953-2025
Books for Younger Children Honor, 1999

Skipping Stones Honor Awards, 1994-2024
Multicultural and International Honor, 1999
Born to Swing: Lil Hardin Armstrong's Life in Jazz (3)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2019

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Arts Selection, 2018
Going Back Home: An Artist Returns to the South (3)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1996

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 1997
I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery (3)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2013

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2013