Book Awards & Distinctions
for Nikki Giovanni
14 Total Book Awards
Rosa (6)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2006

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2006

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Illustrator Winner, 2006

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2005

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2006

Randolph Caldecott Medal, 1938-2025
Honor, 2006
I Am Loved (2)

Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award, 1997-2025
Selection, 2019

Notable Poetry and Verse Novels, 2011-2025
Selection, 2019
The Sun Is So Quiet (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1996

We Are Kid Lit Collective Summer Reading Lists, 2015-2025
Middle Grade Selection, 2025
The Genie in the Jar (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1996
Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat (1)
Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship (1)

Carter G. Woodson Book Award, 1974-2024
Winner, 2009
Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking At The Harlem Renaissance Through Poems (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1996