Book Awards & Distinctions
for Christopher Myers
50 Total Book Awards
Jazz (8)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2007

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2007

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Illustrator Honor, 2007

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Picture Book Text Winner, 2007

Lee Bennett Hopkins Award, 1993-2025
Winner, 2007

Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award, 1997-2025
Selection, 2007

Odyssey Award, 2008-2025
Winner, 2008
Blues Journey (7)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2004

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2004

Horn Book Fanfare, 2001-2024
Selection, 2003

Lee Bennett Hopkins Award, 1993-2025
Honor, 2004

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2004
Firebird (7)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2015

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2015

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Illustrator Winner, 2015

Ezra Jack Keats Award, 1986-2025
Author Honor, 2015
Harlem: A Poem (6)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 1998

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1997

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Illustrator Honor, 1998

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 1998

Randolph Caldecott Medal, 1938-2025
Honor, 1998
Black Cat (4)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2000

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2000

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Illustrator Honor, 2000
H.O.R.S.E.: A Game of Basketball and Imagination (4)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2013

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Illustrator Honor, 2013

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
City Selection, 2013

Odyssey Award, 2008-2025
Winner, 2015
Wings (3)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2001

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2001

Charlotte Zolotow Award, 1998-2025
Honor, 2001
Autobiography of My Dead Brother (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2006
Looking Like Me (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2010
My Pen (2)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2016

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2016
Fly! (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2002
Jabberwocky: The Classic Poem from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1)

Original Art Medal, 2002-2024
Silver Winner, 2007
Jake Makes a World: Jacob Lawrence, a Young Artist in Harlem (1)

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2015
Lies and Other Tall Tales (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2006
We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2012