Book Awards & Distinctions
for Virginia Hamilton

2 Lifetime Achievement Awards 52 Total Book Awards

Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales is on 3 State Lists

The People Could Fly: The Picture Book

Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave

The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales is on 3 State Lists

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush

The Bells of Christmas

The Girl Who Spun Gold

In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World

Junius Over Far

A Little Love

M.C. Higgins the Great

The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl

Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom

When Birds Could Talk and Bats Could Sing

Bluish

Bruh Rabbit and the Tar Baby Girl

Cousins
Cousins is on 1 State List

Drylongso

The House of Dies Drear
The House of Dies Drear is on 2 State Lists

Justice and Her Brothers

The Mystery of Drear House

Plain City

The Planet of Junior Brown

A Ring of Tricksters: Animal Tales from America, the West Indies and Africa

Second Cousins

A White Romance