Book Awards & Distinctions
for Arnold Adoff
1 Lifetime Achievement Award 17 Total Book Awards
Roots and Blues: A Celebration (6)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2012
Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2024
Selection, 2012
Notable Poetry and Verse Novels, 2011-2025
Selection, 2011
SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2011
All the Colors of the Race (3)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1982
Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2024
Author Honor, 1983
Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, 1953-2024
Commended, 1983
The Basket Counts (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2001
Black Is Brown Is Tan (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2003
Hard to Be Six (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1991
I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans (1)
In for Winter, Out for Spring (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1991
Love Letters (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1997
My Black Me: A Beginning Book of Black Poetry (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1994
Sports Pages (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1986