NONFICTION AWARD

From 1977 - 2023, the Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award honored authors or author-illustrators whose total work contributed significantly to the quality of nonfiction for children. Nonfiction is written or illustrated work which arranges and interprets documentable facts intended to illuminate, without imaginative invention, the following fields of knowledge: science, technology, social science, biography, and the arts.

Past Winners

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AWARD WINNERS

Dan Brown

Gail Jarrow

Catherine Reef

Carole Boston Weatherford

Phillip Hoose

Ann Bausum

Tonya Bolden

Steve Sheinkin

Candace Fleming

Janet Greenberg and

Sandra Jordan

Peter Sis

Kathleen Kroll

Sy Montgomery

Susan Capbell Bartoletti

No Award

Doreen Rappaport

Sneed B. Collard III

Caroline Arnord

Dorothy Henshaw Patent

Steve Jenkins

George Ancona

Jim Murphy

Diana Stanley

Laurence Pringle

Jean Craighead George

Rhoda Blumberg

James Cross Giblin

Albert Marrin

Jim Haskins

Seymour Simon

Russell Freedman

Joanna Cole

Brent Ashabranner

Leonard Everett Fisher

Jim Arnosky

Gail Gibbons

Kathryn Lasky

Isaac Asimov

Jill Krementz

Patricia Laubin

Tana Hoban

Milton Meltzer

Shirley Glubok

Jean Fritz

Millisent Selsam

David Macaulay