# Américas Award

The Américas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature is literary award presented annually that recognizes high quality "children's and young adult books that portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States, and to provide teachers with recommendations for classroom use." It was first awarded in 1993 by the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP). The award is presented annually at a ceremony at the Library of Congress during Hispanic Heritage Month, along with coordinating workshops for teachers.

## History

The Américas Award was proposed in 1992 within the Teaching and Outreach Committee of the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs. Julie Kline, at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, served as the committee chair for the first 3 years of the award and then went on to be the award coordinator for many years. Coordination for the award later moved to Latin American Studies centers at Tulane and Vanderbilt Universities. A full research collection of all winning, honor, and commended titles is kept and maintained by the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee at the Golda Meir Library.

## Criteria and Eligibility

The award judges will evaluate books based on
* Distinctive literary quality;
* Cultural contextualization;
* Exceptional integration of text, illustration and design;
* Potential for classroom use.
In order to be eligible for the award, a title must meet the following criteria:
* The book must be published in the preceding year.
* The title may be for primary or secondary reading levels.
* Language of publication may be English, Spanish, Portuguese, or any language indigenous to the Americas.
* The book must be published in the United States or by a publisher with offices within the U.S.
* Submissions may be fiction, poetry, folklore, or selected non-fiction.
* A book will only be considered in its first year of publication in the United States. A book originally published in the U.S. in English with a translated edition in a subsequent year will only be eligible the first year of the edition.

## Recipients

Américas Award Recipients, Honorable Mentions, and Commended books :
| Year | Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | Result |
| 1993 | Vejigante Masquerader | Lulu Delacre | Lulu Delacre | Scholastic | Winner |
| 1993 | Abuela's Weave | Omar S. Castañeda | Enrique O. Sánchez | Lee & Low Books | Commended |
| 1993 | Celebrating the Hero | Lyll Becerra de Jenkins | | Lodestar Books | Commended |
| 1993 | For the Life of Laetitia | Merle Hodge | | Farrar, Straus & Giroux | Commended |
| 1993 | Hue Boy | Rita Phillips Mitchell | Caroline Binch | Dial Press | Commended |
| 1993 | The Little Painter of Sabana Grande | Patricia Maloney Markun | Robert Casilla | Bradbury Press | Commended |
| 1993 | Radio Man | Arthur Dorros | Arthur Dorros | HarperCollins | Commended |
| 1994 | The Mermaid’s Twin Sister | Lynn Joseph | | Clarion Books | Winner |
| 1994 | Alexandro's Gift | Richard E. Albert | Sylvia Long | Chronicle Books | Commended |
| 1994 | Angel's Kite / La estrella de Ángel | Alberto Blanco | Rodolfo Morales | Children's Book Press | Commended |
| 1994 | Beyond the Ancient Cities | José María Merino, trans. by Helen Lane | | Farrar, Straus & Giroux | Commended |
| 1994 | Billy | Laura Roybal | | Houghton Mifflin | Commended |
| 1994 | The Bossy Gallito: A Traditional Cuban Folk Tale | Lucía M. González | Lulu Delacre | Scholastic | Commended |
| 1994 | Caribbean Alphabet | Frané Lessac | Frané Lessac | William Morrow & Company | Commended |
| 1994 | Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States | Lori Marie Carlson (ed.) | | Henry Holt and Company | Commended |
| 1994 | A Day's Work | Eve Bunting | Ronald Himler | Clarion Books | Commended |
| 1994 | De Colores and Other Latin American Folksongs for Children | Jose-Luis Orozco | Elisa Kleven | Dutton Books | Commended |
| 1994 | Feliz Nochebuena, Feliz Navidad | Maricel E. Presilla | Ismael Espinosa Ferrer | Henry Holt and Company | Commended |
| 1994 | Las nanas de abuelita / Grandmother's Nursery Rhymes | Nelly Palacio Jaramillo | Elivia Savadier | Henry Holt and Company | Commended |
| 1994 | How Music Came to the World: An Ancient Mexican Myth | Hal Ober | Carol Ober | Houghton Mifflin | Commended |
| 1994 | How Night Came from the Sea: A Story from Brazil | Mary-Joan Gerson | Carla Golembe | Little, Brown and Company | Commended |
| 1994 | The Hummingbird's Gift | Stefan Czernecki and Timothy Rhodes | Juliana Reyes de Silva and Juan Hilario Silva | Hyperion Books | Commended |
| 1994 | I Have a News: Rhymes from the Caribbean | Neil Philip (ed.) | Jacqueline Mair | William Morrow & Company | Commended |
| 1994 | Imagining Isabel | Omar S. Castañeda | | Lodestar Books | Commended |
| 1994 | Juan Bobo: Four Folktales from Puerto Rico | Carmen T. Bernier-Grand | Ernesto Ramos Nieves | HarperCollins | Commended |
| 1994 | The Legend of the Poinsettia | Tomie dePaola | Tomie dePaola | G. P. Putnam's Sons | Commended |
| 1994 | Lights on the River | Jane Resh Thomas | Michael Dooling | Hyperion Books | Commended |
| 1994 | Not a Copper Penny in Me House: Poems from the Caribbean | Monica Gunning | Frané Lessac | Boyds Mills Press | Commended |
| 1994 | My Two Worlds | Ginger Gordon | Martha Cooper | Clarion Books | Commended |
| 1994 | Over Here It's Different: Carolina's Story | Mildred Leinweber Dawson | George Ancona | Macmillan Publishing | Commended |
| 1994 | Pablo's Tree | Pat Mora | Cecily Lang | Macmillan Publishing | Commended |
| 1994 | Platero y yo / Platero and I | Juan Ramón Jiménez | Antonio Frasconi | Clarion Books | Commended |
| 1994 | Ransom for a River Dolphin | Sarita Kendall | | Lerner Publishing | Commended |
| 1994 | Rata-Pata-Scata-Fata: A Caribbean Story | Phillis Gershator | Holly Meade | Little, Brown and Company | Commended |
| 1994 | The Red Comb | Fernando Picó | María Antonia Ordóñez | BridgeWater Books | Commended |
| 1994 | Rio Grande Stories | Carolyn Meyer | | Harcourt Brace | Commended |
| 1994 | The Sad Night: The Story of an Aztec Victory and a Spanish Loss | Sally Schofer Mathews | Sally Schofer Mathews | Clarion Books | Commended |
| 1994 | Saturday Market | Patricia Grossman | Enrique O. Sánchez | Lothrop, Lee & Shepard | Commended |
| 1994 | The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote | Tony Johnston | Tomie dePaola | G. P. Putnam's Sons | Commended |
| 1994 | Tap-Tap | Karen Lynn Williams | Catherine Stock | Clarion Books | Commended |
| 1994 | The Tree That Rains: The Flood Myth of the Huichol Indians of Mexico | Emery Bernhard | Durga Bernhard | Holiday House | Commended |
| 1994 | Tukama Tootles the Flute: A Tale from the Antilles | Phillis Gershator | Synthia Saint James | Orchard Books | Commended |
| 1994 | Voices from the Fields : Children of Migrant Farmworkers Tell Their Stories | S. Beth Atkin | | Little, Brown and Company | Commended |
| 1994 | Walking Stars: Stories of Magic and Power | Victor Villaseñor | | Arte Público Press | Commended |
| 1994 | When the Monkeys Came Back | Kristine L. Franklin | Robert Roth | Atheneum Books | Commended |
| 1994 | Where the Flame Trees Bloom | Alma Flor Ada | Antonio Martorell | Atheneum Books | Commended |
| 1995 | Tonight, by Sea | Frances Temple | | Orchard Books | Winner |
| 1995 | An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio | Judith Ortiz Cofer | | Orchard Books | Honor |
| 1995 | Chato's Kitchen | Gary Soto | Susan Guevara | G. P. Putnam's Sons | Honor |
| 1995 | Heart of a Jaguar | Marc Talbert | | Simon & Schuster | Honor |
| 1995 | Calling the Doves / El canto de las palomas | Juan Felipe Herrera | Elly Simmons | Children's Book Press | Commended |
| 1995 | Canto familiar | Gary Soto | Annika Nelson | Harcourt Brace | Commended |
| 1995 | A Caribbean Dozen: Poems from Caribbean Poets | John Agard and Grace Nichols (eds.) | Cathie Felstead | Candlewick Press | Commended |
| 1995 | Carlos, Light the Farolito | Jean Ciavonne | Donna Clair | Clarion Books | Commended |
| 1995 | The Faithful Friend | Robert D. San Souci | Brian Pinkney | Simon & Schuster | Commended |
| 1995 | The Farolitos of Christmas | Rudolfo Anaya | Edward Gonzales | Hyperion Books | Commended |
| 1995 | Fernando's Gift / El Regalo de Fernando | Douglas Keister | Douglas Keister | Sierra Club Books for Children | Commended |
| 1995 | Fiesta U.S.A. | George Ancona | George Ancona | Lodestar Books | Commended |
| 1995 | The Gullywasher | Joyce Rossi | Joyce Rossi | Northland Publishing | Commended |
| 1995 | Hi | Ann Herbert Scott | Glo Coalson | Philomel Books | Commended |
| 1995 | How Iwariwa the Cayman Learned to Share: A Yanomami Myth | George Crespo | George Crespo | Clarion Books | Commended |
| 1995 | Indio | Sherry Garland | | Harcourt Brace | Commended |
| 1995 | Isla / La isla | Arthur Dorros | Arthur Dorros | Dutton Books | Commended |
| 1995 | Juan Bobo and the Horse of Seven Colors: a Puerto Rican Legend | Jan Mike | Charles Reasoner | Troll Associates | Commended |
| 1995 | The Magic Feather: A Jamaican Legend | Lisa Rojany | Philip Kuznicki | Troll Associates | Commended |
| 1995 | Mediopollito / Half-Chicken | Alma Flor Ada | Kim Howard | Doubleday | Commended |
| 1995 | My First Book of Proverbs / Mi primer libro de dichos | Ralfka González and Ana Ruiz | | Children's Book Press | Commended |
| 1995 | Pedro Fools the Gringo and Other Tales of a Latin American Trickster | María Cristina Brusca and Tona Wilson | María Cristina Brusca | Henry Holt and Company | Commended |
| 1995 | People of Corn: A Mayan Story | Mary-Joan Gerson | Carla Golembe | Little, Brown and Company | Commended |
| 1996 | In My Family / En mi familia | Carmen Lomas Garza | Carmen Lomas Garza | Children's Book Press | Winner |
| 1996 | Parrot in the Oven | Victor Martínez | | HarperCollins | Winner |
| 1996 | Down by the River: Afro-Caribbean Rhymes, Games and Songs for Children | Grace Hallworth | Caroline Binch | Scholastic | Honor |
| 1996 | So Loud a Silence | Lyll Becerra de Jenkins | | Lodestar Books | Honor |
| 1996 | Alphabet City Ballet | Erika Tamar | | HarperCollins | Commended |
| 1996 | Anthony Reynoso: Born to Rope | Martha Cooper and Ginger Gordon | | Clarion Books | Commended |
| 1996 | Barrio Streets, Carnival Dreams: Three Generations of Latino Artistry | Lori Marie Carlson | | Henry Holt and Company | Commended |
| 1996 | A Bear for Miguel | Elaine Marie Alphin | Joan Sandin | HarperCollins | Commended |
| 1996 | The Big Idea | Ellen Schecter | Bob Dorsey | Hyperion Books | Commended |
| 1996 | La Boda: A Mexican Wedding Celebration | Nancy Van Laan | Andrea Arroyo | Little, Brown and Company | Commended |
| 1996 | A Caribbean Counting Book | Faustin Charles | Roberta Arenson | Houghton Mifflin | Commended |
| 1996 | Chave's Memories: Los Recuerdos De Chave | María Isabel Delgado | Yvonne Symank | Arte Público Press | Commended |
| 1996 | Confetti: Poems For Children | Pat Mora | Enrique O. Sánchez | Lee & Low Books | Commended |
| 1996 | Darkfright | Holly Young Huth | Jenny Stow | Atheneum Books | Commended |
| 1996 | Elena | Diane Stanley | | Hyperion Books | Commended |
| 1996 | Firefly Summer | Pura Belpré | | Arte Público Press | Commended |
| 1996 | The Garden of Happiness | Erika Tamar | Barbara Lambase | Harcourt Brace | Commended |
| 1996 | Going Home | Eve Bunting | David Díaz | HarperCollins | Commended |
| 1996 | The Golden Flower: A Taino Myth from Puerto Rico | Nina Jaffe | Enrique O. Sánchez | Simon & Schuster | Commended |
| 1996 | Golden Tales: Myths, Legends and Folktales from Latin America / De oro y esmeraldas: mitos, leyendas y cuentos popules de latinoamérica | Lulu Delacre | | Scholastic | Commended |
| 1996 | Good News! | Sarita Chávez Silverman | Melinda Levine | Hampton-Brown | Commended |
| 1996 | Hooray, a Piñata! | Elisa Kleven | Elisa Kleven | Dutton Books | Commended |
| 1996 | In Rosa's Mexico | Campbell Geeslin | Andrea Arroyo | Alfred A. Knopf | Commended |
| 1996 | Jade and Iron: Latin American Tales from Two Cultures | Patricia Aldana (ed.), trans. by Hugh Hazelton | Luis Garay | Groundwood Books / Douglas & McIntyre Ltd | Commended |
| 1996 | Jalapeño Bagels | Natasha Wing | Robert Casilla | Atheneum Books | Commended |
| 1997 | The Circuit | Francisco Jiménez | | University of New Mexico Press | Winner |
| 1997 | The Face at the Window | Regina Hanson | Linda Saport | Clarion Books | Winner |
| 1997 | Fruits: A Caribbean Counting Poem | Valerie Bloom | David Axtell | Henry Holt and Company | Honor |
| 1997 | Mayeros: A Yucatec Maya Family | George Ancona | George Ancona | William Morrow & Company | Honor |
| 1997 | Angela Weaves a Dream: The Story of a Young Maya Artist | Michèle Solá | Jeffrey Jay Foxx | Hyperion Books | Commended |
| 1997 | Baseball in the Barrios | Henry Horenstein | Henry Horenstein | Gulliver Books / Harcourt Brace | Commended |
| 1997 | The Birthday Swap / ¡Qué sorpresa de cumpleaños! | Loretta López | Loretta López | Lee & Low Books | Commended |
| 1997 | Buried Onions | Gary Soto | | Harcourt Brace | Commended |
| 1997 | Butterfly Boy | Virginia Kroll | Gerardo Suzán | Boyds Mills Press | Commended |
| 1997 | Carlos and the Skunk / Carlos Y El Zorrillo | Jan Romero Stevens | Jeanne Arnold | Rising Moon | Commended |
| 1997 | Celebrate! In Central America | Joe Viesti and Diane Hall | Joe Viesti | Lothrop, Lee & Shepard | Commended |
| 1997 | Cocoa Ice | Diana Appelbaum | Holly Meade | Orchard Books | Commended |
| 1997 | La Cucaracha Martina: A Caribbean Folktale / Un cuento folklorico del Caribe | Daniel Moretón | Daniel Moretón | Turtle Books | Commended |
| 1997 | Cuckoo / Cucu | Lois Ehlert, trans. by Gloria de Aragón Andújar | Lois Ehlert | Harcourt Brace | Commended |
| 1997 | Day of the Dead | Tony Johnston | Jeanette Winter | Harcourt Brace | Commended |
| 1997 | Dear Abuelita / Querida Abuelita | Sofía Meza Keane | Enrique O. Sánchez | Rigby | Commended |
| 1997 | Diez Deditos and Other Play Rhymes and Action Songs from Latin America | Jose-Luis Orozco (ed.) | Elisa Kleven | Dutton Books | Commended |
| 1997 | From Father to Son / De padre a hijo | Patricia Almada | Marianno de López | Rigby | Commended |
| 1997 | Gathering the Sun: An Alphabet In Spanish And English | Alma Flor Ada | Simón Silva | Lothrop, Lee & Shepard | Commended |
| 1997 | Grannie Jus' Come! | Ana Sisnett | Karen Lusebrink | Children's Book Press | Commended |
| 1997 | I Am Of Two Places / Soy de dos lugares | Mary Carden and Mary Cappellini (eds.) | Maya Christina González | Rigby | Commended |
| 1997 | Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring Poems / Jitomates Risuenos y Otros Poemas de Primavera | Francisco X. Alarcón | Maya Christina González | Children's Book Press | Commended |
| 1997 | A Little Salmon for Witness: A Story from Trinidad | Vashanti Rahaman | Sandra Speidel | Lodestar Books | Commended |
| 1997 | The Lizard and the Sun / La lagartija y el sol | Alma Flor Ada | Felipe Dávalos | Doubleday Dell | Commended |
| 1997 | Mexico's Marvelous Corn / El maravilloso maíz de México | Margarita González-Jensen | Margarita González-Jensen | Rigby | Commended |
| 1997 | Novio Boy | Gary Soto | | Harcourt Brace | Commended |
| 1997 | Perdito's Day | Luis Garay | Luis Garay | Orchard Books | Commended |
| 1997 | Señor Cat's Romance and Other Favorite Stories from Latin America | Lucía M. González | Lulu Delacre | Scholastic | Commended |
| 1997 | Spirits of the High Mesa | Floyd Martínez | | Arte Público Press | Commended |
| 1997 | The Story of Dona Chila / El cuento de Doña Chila | Mary Capellinni | Gershom Griffith | Rigby | Commended |
| 1997 | Tomás and the Library Lady | Pat Mora | Raúl Colón | Alfred A. Knopf | Commended |
| 1997 | Where Fireflies Dance / Ahi, Donde Bailan Las Lucienagas | Lucha Corpi | Mira Reisberg | Children's Book Press | Commended |
| 1997 | White Bread Competition | Jo Ann Yolanda Hernández | | Piñata Books | Commended |
| 1998 | Barrio: José’s Neighborhood | George Ancona | George Ancona | Harcourt Brace | Winner |
| 1998 | Mama and Papa Have a Store | Amelia Lau Carling | Amelia Lau Carling | Dial Press | Winner |
| 1998 | Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella | Robert D. San Souci | Brian Pinkney | Simon & Schuster | Honor |
| 1998 | Big bushy mustache | Gary Soto | Joe Cepeda | Alfred A. Knopf | Commended |
| 1998 | Big Moon Tortilla | Dyanne Strongbow | | Boyds Mills Press | Commended |
| 1998 | Caribbean Dream | Rachel Isadora | Rachel Isadora | G. P. Putnam's Sons | Commended |
| 1998 | The Crab Man / El hombre de los cangrejos | Patricia E. Van West | Cedric Lucas | Turtle Books | Commended |
| 1998 | Doctor Bird: Three Lookin' Up Tales from Jamaica | Gerald Hausman | Ashley Wolff | Philomel Books | Commended |
| 1998 | Fiesta Fireworks | George Ancona | George Ancona | Lothrop, Lee & Shepard | Commended |
| 1998 | From the Bellybutton of the Moon: And Other Summer Poems / Del Ombligo de la Luna: Y Otros Poemas de Verano | Francisco X. Alarcón | Maya Christina González | Children's Book Press | Commended |
| 1998 | A Gift for Abuelita: Celebrating the Day of the Dead / Un regalo para Abuelita: En celebración del Día de los Muertos | Nancy Luenn | Robert Chapman | Rising Moon | Commended |
| 1998 | Greetings, Sun | Phillis Gershator and David Gershator | Synthia Saint James | DK Ink | Commended |
| 1998 | Liliana's Grandmothers | Leyla Torres | Leyla Torres | Farrar, Straus & Giroux | Commended |
| 1998 | Lolo & Red-legs | Kirk Reeve | | Rising Moon | Commended |
| 1998 | The Magic Bean Tree: A Legend from Argentina | Nancy Van Laan | Beatriz Vidal | Houghton Mifflin | Commended |
| 1998 | La Mariposa | Francisco Jiménez | Simón Silva | Houghton Mifflin | Commended |
| 1998 | Marisol and Magdalena: The Sound of Our Sisterhood | Veronica Chambers | | Hyperion Books | Commended |
| 1998 | Momentos Magicos: Tales from Latin America Told in English and Spanish | Olga Loya | | August House | Commended |
| 1998 | Petty Crimes | Gary Soto | | Harcourt Brace | Commended |
| 1998 | The Secret Stars | Joseph Slate | Felipe Dávalos | Marshall Cavendish | Commended |
| 1998 | Tío Armando | Florence Parry Heide and Roxanne Heide Pierce | Ann Grifalconi | Lothrop, Lee & Shepard | Commended |
| 1998 | Under The Royal Palms: A Childhood in Cuba | Alma Flor Ada | | Atheneum Books | Commended |
| 1999 | CrashBoomLove | Juan Felipe Herrera | | University of New Mexico Press | Winner |
| 1999 | Cuba: After the Revolution | Bernard Wolff | | Dutton Books | Honor |
| 1999 | Magic Windows / Ventanas mágicas | Carmen Lomas Garza, trans. by Francisco X. Alarcón | Carmen Lomas Garza | Children's Book Press | Honor |
| 1999 | A Is for the Americas | Cynthia Chin-Lee and Terri de la Peña | Enrique O. Sánchez | Orchard Books | Commended |
| 1999 | Angels Ride Bikes: And Other Fall Poems / Los Angeles Andan en Bicicleta: Y Otros Poemas de Otoño | Francisco X. Alarcón | Maya Christina González | Children's Book Press | Commended |
| 1999 | Asphalt Angels | Ineke Holtwijk, trans. by Wanda Boeke | | Front Street Press | Commended |
| 1999 | Carnaval | George Ancona | George Ancona | Harcourt Brace | Commended |
| 1999 | Erandi's Braids | Antonio Hernández Madrigal | Tomie dePaola | G. P. Putnam's Sons | Commended |
| 1999 | I'm José and I'm Okay: Three Stories from Bolivia | Werner Holzwarth, trans. by Laura McKenna | Yatiyawi Studios | Kane/Miller | Commended |
| 1999 | Island in the Sun | Harry Belafonte and Lord Burgess | Alex Ayliffe | Dial Press | Commended |
| 1999 | It Doesn't Have to Be This Way: A Barrio Story / No tiene que ser asi: Una historia del barrio | Luis J. Rodríguez | Daniel Galvez | Children's Book Press | Commended |
| 1999 | Two Days in May | Harriet Peck Taylor | Leyla Torres | Farrar, Straus & Giroux | Commended |
| 2000 | The Color of My Words | Lynn Joseph | | HarperCollins | Winner |
| 2000 | The Composition | Antonio Skármeta | Alfonso Ruano | Groundwood Books | Winner |
| 2000 | Esperanza Rising | Pam Muñoz Ryan | | Scholastic | Honor |
| 2000 | My Very Own Room / Mi propio cuarto | Amada Irma Pérez | Maya Christina González | Children's Book Press | Honor |
| 2000 | The Christmas Gift / El regalo de Navidad | Francisco Jiménez | Claire B. Cotts | Houghton Mifflin | Commended |
| 2000 | Cuban Kids | George Ancona | George Ancona | Marshall Cavendish | Commended |
| 2000 | Icy Watermelon / Sandia Fria | Mary Sue Galindo | Pauline Rodriguez Howard | Piñata Books, Arte Público Press | Commended |
| 2000 | Mi Hija, Mi Hijo, El Aguila, La Paloma: Un Canto Azteca / My Daughter, My Son, the Eagle, the Dove: An Aztec Chant | Ana Castillo | Susan Guevara | Dutton Books | Commended |
| 2000 | Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned | Judd Winick | Judd Winick | Henry Holt and Company | Commended |
| 2000 | Roadrunner's Dance | Rudolfo Anaya | David Díaz | Hyperion Books | Commended |
| 2000 | Salsa Stories | Lulu Delacre | Lulu Delacre | Scholastic | Commended |
| 2001 | A Movie in My Pillow / Una película en mi almohada | Jorge Argueta | Elizabeth Gómez | Children's Book Press | Winner |
| 2001 | Breaking Through | Francisco Jiménez | | Houghton Mifflin | Winner |
| 2001 | In the Days of the Vaqueros: America's First True Cowboys | Russell Freedman | | Clarion Books | Honor |
| 2001 | Harvest | George Ancona | George Ancona | Marshall Cavendish | Commended |
| 2001 | Iguanas in the Snow and Other Winter Poems | Francisco X. Alarcón | Maya Christina González | Children's Book Press | Commended |
| 2001 | The Jumping Tree | René Saldaña, Jr. | | Delacorte Press | Commended |
| 2001 | Mama Does The Mambo | Katherine Leiner | Edel Rodríguez | Hyperion Books | Commended |
| 2001 | Uncle Rain Cloud | Tony Johnston | Fabricio Vanden Broeck | Charlesbridge | Commended |
| 2002 | Before We Were Free | Julia Alvarez | | Alfred A. Knopf | Winner |
| 2002 | Behind the Mountains | Edwidge Danticat | | Orchard Books | Honor |
| 2002 | Frida | Jonah Winter | Ana Juan | Scholastic | Honor |
| 2002 | Flight to Freedom | Ana Veciana-Suarez | | Orchard Books | Commended |
| 2002 | Grandma and Me at the Flea / Los Meros Meros Remateros | Juan Felipe Herrera | Anita DeLucio-Brock | Children's Book Press | Commended |
| 2002 | I love Saturdays y domingos | Alma Flor Ada | Elivia Savadier | Atheneum Books | Commended |
| 2002 | A Library for Juana | Pat Mora | Beatriz Vidal | Alfred A. Knopf | Commended |
| 2002 | Me in the Middle | Ana Maria Machado, trans. by David Unger | Caroline Merola | Groundwood Books | Commended |
| 2002 | Messengers of Rain and Other Poems from Latin America | Claudia M. Lee (ed.) | Rafael Yockteng | Groundwood Books | Commended |
| 2002 | My Diary From Here to There / Mi diario de aqui hasta alla | Amada Irma Pérez | Maya Christina González | Children's Book Press | Commended |
| 2002 | The Pot That Juan Built | Nancy Andrews-Goebel | David Díaz | Lee & Low Books | Commended |
| 2003 | Just a Minute | Yuyi Morales | Yuyi Morales | Chronicle Books | Winner |
| 2003 | The Meaning of Consuelo | Judith Ortiz Cofer | | Farrar, Straus & Giroux | Winner |
| 2003 | Cuba 15 | Nancy Osa | | Delacorte Press | Honor |
| 2003 | Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez | Kathleen Krull | Yuyi Morales | Harcourt | Honor |
| 2003 | The Afterlife | Gary Soto | | Harcourt | Commended |
| 2003 | The Journey of Tunuri and the Blue Deer | James Endredy | María Hernández de la Cruz and Casimiro de la Cruz López | Bear Cub Books | Commended |
| 2003 | The Little Blue House | Sandra Comino | | Groundwood Books | Commended |
| 2003 | Murals: Walls that Sing | George Ancona | George Ancona | Marshall Cavendish | Commended |
| 2003 | Xochitl and the Flowers / Xochitl, la Nina de las flores | Jorge Argueta | Carl Angel | Children's Book Press | Commended |
| 2004 | My Name is Celia / Me llamo Celia | Monica Brown | Rafael López | Luna Rising | Winner |
| 2004 | Sammy & Juliana in Hollywood | Benjamin Alire Sáenz | | Cinco Puntos Press | Winner |
| 2004 | Call Me María | Judith Ortiz Cofer | | Orchard Books | Honor |
| 2004 | Becoming Naomi León | Pam Muñoz Ryan | | Scholastic | Commended |
| 2004 | The Dream on Blanca’s Wall / El sueño pegado en la pared de Blanca | Jane Medina | Robert Casilla | Boyds Mills Press | Commended |
| 2004 | Elena's Serenade | Campbell Geeslin | Ana Juan | Atheneum Books | Commended |
| 2004 | The Remembering Stone | Barbara Timberlake Russell | Claire B. Cotts | Farrar, Straus & Giroux | Commended |
| 2004 | The Santero's Miracle | Rudolfo Anaya | Amy Córdova | University of New Mexico Press | Commended |
| 2004 | Sélavi, That is Life: A Haitian Story of Hope | Youme | Youme | Cinco Puntos Press | Commended |
| 2005 | Cinnamon Girl: letters found inside a cereal box | Juan Felipe Herrera | | Joanna Cotler Books, HarperCollins | Winner |
| 2005 | A Season for Mangoes | Regina Hanson | Eric Velasquez | Clarion Books | Honor |
| 2005 | The Tequila Worm | Viola Canales | | Random House | Honor |
| 2005 | Julio's Magic | Arthur Dorros | Ann Grifalconi | HarperCollins | Commended |
| 2005 | Lucha Libre: The Man in the Silver Mask | Xavier Garza | Xavier Garza | Cinco Puntos Press | Commended |
| 2005 | Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States | Lori Marie Carlson | | Henry Holt and Company | Commended |
| 2005 | Red Ridin' in the Hood and Other Cuentos | Patricia Santos Marcantonio | Renato Alarcão | Farrar, Straus & Giroux | Commended |
| 2005 | Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates | Jonah Winter | Raúl Colón | Atheneum Books | Commended |
| 2005 | Sawdust Carpets / Alfombras de aserrín | Amelia Lau Carling | Amelia Lau Carling | Groundwood Books | Commended |
| 2006 | Josias, Hold the Book | Jennifer Elvgren | Nicole Tadgell | Boyds Mills Press | Winner |
| 2006 | The Poet Slave of Cuba | Margarita Engle | Sean Qualls | Henry Holt and Company | Winner |
| 2006 | What the Moon Saw | Laura Resau | | Delacorte Press | Honor |
| 2006 | Behind the Eyes | Francisco X. Stork | | Dutton Books | Commended |
| 2006 | Call Me Henri | Lorraine M. López | | Curbstone Press | Commended |
| 2006 | Crossing the Wire | Will Hobbs | | HarperCollins | Commended |
| 2006 | El Lector | William Durbin | | Random House | Commended |
| 2006 | La fiesta de las tortillas / La Fiesta de Las Tortillas | Jorge Argueta Joe Hayes and Sharon Franco (trs.) | María Jesús Álvarez | Santillana | Commended |
| 2006 | The Honey Jar | Rigoberta Menchú with Dante Liano | Domi | Groundwood Books | Commended |
| 2006 | Letters to My Mother | Teresa Cárdenas | | Groundwood Books | Commended |
| 2006 | La Línea | Ann Jaramillo | | Roaring Brook Press | Commended |
| 2006 | My Feet Are Laughing | Lissette Norman | Frank Morrison | Farrar, Straus & Giroux | Commended |
| 2006 | My Little Car | Gary Soto | Pam Paparone | G. P. Putnam's Sons | Commended |
| 2006 | Napí va a la montaña | Antonio Ramírez | Domi | Groundwood Books | Commended |
| 2006 | Surprising Cecilia | Susan Gonzales Abraham and Denise Gonzales Abraham | | Cinco Puntos Press | Commended |
| 2006 | Talking with Mother Earth / Hablando con madre tierra | Jorge Argueta | Lucía Angela Pérez | Groundwood Books | Commended |
| 2006 | To Go Singing Through the World: The Childhood of Pablo Neruda | Deborah Kogan Ray | | Farrar, Straus & Giroux | Commended |
| 2007-2008 | Red Glass | Laura Resau | | Delacorte Press | Winner |
| 2007-2008 | ¡Yum! ¡MmMm! ¡Que Rico!: America’s Sproutings | Pat Mora | Rafael López | Lee & Low Books | Winner |
| 2007-2008 | Nochecita / Little Night | Yuyi Morales | Yuyi Morales | Roaring Brook Press | Honor |
| 2007-2008 | Raining Sardines | Enrique Flores-Galbis | | Roaring Brook Press | Honor |
| 2007-2008 | Abuelita, Full of Life / Abuelita, Ilena de Vida | Amy Costales | Martha Avilés | Luna Rising | Commended |
| 2007-2008 | Alfredito regresa volando a su casa / Alfredito Flies Home | Jorge Argueta | Luis Garay | Groundwood Books | Commended |
| 2007-2008 | Angelina's Island | Jeanette Winter | Jeanette Winter | Frances Foster Books, Farrar, Straus & Giroux | Commended |
| 2007-2008 | Capoeira: Game! Dance! Martial Art! | George Ancona | George Ancona | Lee & Low Books | Commended |
| 2007-2008 | A Caribbean Journey from A to Y: Read and Discover What Happened to the Z | Mario Picayo | Earleen Griswold | Campanita | Commended |
| 2007-2008 | Come Look with Me: Latin American Art | Kimberly Lane | | Charlesbridge | Commended |
| 2007-2008 | Frida: ¡Viva la Vida! Long Live Life! | Carmen T. Bernier-Grand | | Marshall Cavendish | Commended |
| 2007-2008 | Hip, Hip, Hooray, It's Monsoon Day! / ¡Ajua, Ya Llego El Chubasco! | Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford | Richard Johnson | Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press | Commended |
| 2007-2008 | Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale / Martina Una Cucarachita Muy Linda: Un Cuento Cubano | Carmen Agra Deedy | Michael Austin | Peachtree | Commended |
| 2007-2008 | My Colors, My World / Mis Colores, Mi Mundo | Maya Christina González | Maya Christina González | Children's Book Press | Commended |
| 2007-2008 | My Name Is Gabito: The Life of Gabriel Garcia Marquez / Me llamo Gabit: La vida de Gabriel García Márquez | Monica Brown | Raúl Colón | Luna Rising | Commended |
| 2007-2008 | N is for Navidad | Susan Middleton Elya and Merry Banks | Joe Cepeda | Chronicle Books | Commended |
| 2007-2008 | Nana's Big Surprise / Nana, ¡Qué Sorpresa! | Amada Irma Pérez | Maya Christina González | Children's Book Press | Commended |
| 2007-2008 | Old Dog | Teresa Cárdenas, trans. by David Unger | | Groundwood Books | Commended |
| 2007-2008 | Sacred Leaf | Deborah Ellis | | Groundwood Books | Commended |
| 2007-2008 | A Small Nativity | Aquiles Nazoa, trans. by Hugh Hazelton | Ana Palmero Cáceres | Groundwood Books | Commended |
| 2007-2008 | Touching Snow | M. Sindy Felin | | Atheneum Books | Commended |
| 2007-2008 | Tricycle | Elisa Amado | Alfonso Ruano | Groundwood Books | Commended |
| 2009 | Just in Case: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet Book | Yuyi Morales | Yuyi Morales | Roaring Brook Press | Winner |
| 2009 | The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom | Margarita Engle | | Henry Holt and Company | Winner |
| 2009 | The Best Gift of All: The Legend of La Vieja Belén / El mejor regalo del mundo: La leyenda de la vieja belén | Julia Alvarez | Ruddy Nuñez | Alfaguara / Santillana | Honor |
| 2009 | Dark Dude | Oscar Hijuelos | | Atheneum Books | Honor |
| 2009 | The Storyteller’s Candle / La velita de los cuentos | Lucía M. González | Lulu Delacre | Children's Book Press | Honor |
| 2009 | Animal Poems of the Iguazú / Animalario del Iguazú | Francisco X. Alarcón | Maya Christina González | Children's Book Press | Commended |
| 2009 | Arco Iris de Poesía: Poemas de las Américas y España | Sergio Andricaín (ed.) | Olga Cuéllar | Lectorum Publications | Commended |
| 2009 | Baila, Nana, Baila / Dance, Nana, Dance: Cuban Folktales in English and Spanish | Joe Hayes | Mauricio Trenard Sayago | Cinco Puntos Press | Commended |
| 2009 | Cesar Chavez: Crusader for Social Change | Brenda Haugen | | Compass Point Books | Commended |
| 2009 | The Disappeared | Gloria Whelan | | Dial Press / Penguin | Commended |
| 2009 | Divali Rose | Vashanti Rahaman | Jamel Akib | Boyds Mills Press | Commended |
| 2009 | Dolores Huerta: Labor Leader and Civil Rights Activist | Robin S. Doak | | Compass Point Books | Commended |
| 2009 | Down to the Bone | Mayra Lazara Dole | | HarperCollins | Commended |
| 2009 | Facts of Life | Gary Soto | | Harcourt | Commended |
| 2009 | He Forgot to Say Goodbye | Benjamin Alire Sáenz | | Simon & Schuster | Commended |
| 2009 | Kitchen Dance | Maurie J. Manning | Maurie J. Manning | Clarion Books | Commended |
| 2009 | Pablo (Cuando los Grandes Eran Pequeños) | Georgina Lázaro | Marcela Donoso | Lectorum Publications | Commended |
| 2009 | PeaceJam: A Billion Simple Acts of Peace | Ivan Suvanjieff and Dawn Gifford Engle | | Puffin / Penguin | Commended |
| 2009 | A Perfect Season for Dreaming / Un tiempo perfecto para soñar | Benjamin Alire Sáenz | Esau Andrade Valencia | Cinco Puntos Press | Commended |
| 2009 | Reaching Out | Francisco Jiménez | | Houghton Mifflin | Commended |
| 2009 | The Secret Legacy | Rigoberta Menchú with Dante Liano | Domi | Groundwood Books | Commended |
| 2009 | The Smell of Old Lady Perfume | Claudia Guadalupe Martinez | | Cinco Puntos Press | Commended |
| 2009 | Voices in First Person: Reflections on Latino Identity | Lori Marie Carlson (ed.) | Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, Flavio Morais | Atheneum Books | Commended |
| 2009 | The Walls of Cartagena | Julia Durango | Tom Pohrt | Simon & Schuster | Commended |
| 2009 | What Can You Do With a Rebozo? | Carmen Tafolla | Amy Córdova | Tricycle Press | Commended |
| 2010 | Return to Sender | Julia Alvarez | | Alfred A. Knopf | Winner |
| 2010 | What Can You Do With a Paleta? / ¿Qué puedes hacer con una paleta? | Carmen Tafolla | Magaly Morales | Tricycle Press | Winner |
| 2010 | Gringolandia | Lyn Miller-Lachmann | | Curbstone Press | Honor |
| 2010 | I Know the River Loves Me / Yo sé que el río me ama | Maya Christina González | Maya Christina González | Children's Book Press | Honor |
| 2010 | My Papa Diego and Me: Memories of My Father and His Art / Mi pap Diego y yo: Recuerdos de mi padre y su arte | Guadalupe Rivera Marín and Diego Rivera | | Children's Book Press | Honor |
| 2010 | Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491 | Charles C. Mann | | Atheneum Books | Commended |
| 2010 | Book Fiesta! Celebrate Children's Day/Book Day / Celebremos El día de los niños/El día de los libros | Pat Mora | Rafael López | HarperCollins / Rayo | Commended |
| 2010 | Braids / Trencitas | Kathleen Contreras | Margaret Lindmark | Lectorum Publications | Commended |
| 2010 | Confetti Girl | Diana López | | Little, Brown and Company | Commended |
| 2010 | Diego: Bigger Than Life | Carmen T. Bernier-Grand | David Díaz | Marshall Cavendish | Commended |
| 2010 | The Fiesta Dress: A Quinceañera Tale | Caren McNelly McCormack | Martha Avilés | Marshall Cavendish | Commended |
| 2010 | Grandmother, Have the Angels Come? | Denise Vega | Erin Eitter Kono | Little, Brown and Company | Commended |
| 2010 | Jorge Luis Borges | Georgina Lázaro | Graciela Genovés | Lectorum Publications | Commended |
| 2010 | Journey of Dreams | Marge Pellegrino | | Frances Lincoln Children's Books | Commended |
| 2010 | Marcelo in the Real World | Francisco X. Stork | | Arthur A. Levine Books | Commended |
| 2010 | Muchacho | LouAnne Johnson | | Alfred A. Knopf | Commended |
| 2010 | My Abuelita | Tony Johnston | Yuyi Morales | Harcourt | Commended |
| 2010 | Pelé King of Soccer / Pelé el rey del fútbol | Monica Brown | Rudy Gutiérrez | Rayo | Commended |
| 2010 | A Piñata in a Pine Tree: A Latino Twelve Days of Christmas | Pat Mora | Magaly Morales | Clarion Books | Commended |
| 2010 | René has Two Last Names / René tiene dos apellidos | René Colato Laínez | Fabiola Graullera Ramírez | Arte Público Press | Commended |
| 2010 | Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx / Sonia Sotomayor: la juez que creció en el Bronx | Jonah Winter | Edel Rodríguez | Atheneum Books | Commended |
| 2010 | Sopa de frijoles / Bean Soup | Jorge Argueta | Rafael Yockteng | Groundwood Books | Commended |
| 2010 | Tan to Tamarind | Malathi Michelle Iyengar | Jamel Akib | Children's Book Press | Commended |
| 2010 | Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba | Margarita Engle | | Henry Holt and Company | Commended |
| 2010 | Victoria Goes to Brazil | Maria de Fatima Campos | Maria de Fatima Campos | Frances Lincoln Children's Books | Commended |
| 2010 | We Were Here | Matt de la Peña | | Delacorte Press | Commended |
| 2011 | Clemente! | Willie Perdomo | Bryan Collier | Henry Holt and Company | Winner |
| 2011 | The Dreamer | Pam Muñoz Ryan | Peter Sís | Henry Holt and Company | Winner |
| 2011 | The Firefly Letters | Margarita Engle | | Henry Holt and Company | Honor |
| 2011 | Arroz con Leche: Un poema para cocinar / Rice Pudding: A Cooking Poem | Jorge Argueta | Fernando Vilela | Groundwood Books | Commended |
| 2011 | Biblioburro: A True Story from Colombia | Jeanette Winter | Jeanette Winter | Beach Lane | Commended |
| 2011 | César Chávez: A Photographic Essay | Ilan Stavans | | Cinco Puntos Press | Commended |
| 2011 | Dear Primo | Duncan Tonatiuh | Duncan Tonatiuh | Abrams Books | Commended |
| 2011 | Dizzy in your Eyes: Poems about Love | Pat Mora | | Alfred A. Knopf | Commended |
| 2011 | Eight Days: A Story of Haiti | Edwidge Danticat | Alix Delinois | Orchard Books | Commended |
| 2011 | Fiesta Babies | Carmen Tafolla | Amy Córdova | Tricycle Press | Commended |
| 2011 | From North to South / Del norte al Sur | René Colato Laínez | Joe Cepeda | Children's Book Press | Commended |
| 2011 | Grandma's Gift | Eric Velasquez | Eric Velásquez | Bloomsbury | Commended |
| 2011 | How Tía Lola Learned to Teach | Julia Alvarez | | Alfred A. Knopf | Commended |
| 2011 | The Last Summer of the Death Warriors | Francisco X. Stork | | Scholastic | Commended |
| 2011 | Me, Frida | Amy Novesky | David Díaz | Abrams Books | Commended |
| 2011 | Napí funda un pueblo / Napí Makes a Village | Antonio Ramírez | Domi | Groundwood Books | Commended |
| 2011 | Ole! Flamenco | George Ancona | George Ancona | Lee & Low Books | Commended |
| 2011 | Star in the Forest | Laura Resau | | Delacorte Press | Commended |
| 2012 | Hurricane Dancers | Margarita Engle | | Henry Holt and Company | Winner |
| 2012 | Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People | Monica Brown | Julie Paschkis | Henry Holt and Company | Winner |
| 2012 | Under the Mesquite | Guadalupe García McCall | David Díaz | Lee & Low Books | Honor |
| 2012 | The Queen of Water | Laura Resau and María Virginia Farinango | | Delacorte Press | Honor |
| 2012 | Sylvia and Aki | Winifred Conkling | | Tricycle Press | Commended |
| 2013 | The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano | Sonia Manzano | | Scholastic | Winner |
| 2013 | Martín de Porres, the Rose in the Desert | Gary D. Schmidt | David Díaz | Clarion Books | Honor |
| 2013 | Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe | Benjamin Alire Sáenz | | Simon & Schuster | Commended |
| 2013 | Drummer Boy of John John | Mark Greenwood | Frané Lessac | Lee & Low Books | Commended |
| 2013 | In Darkness | Nick Lake | | Bloomsbury | Commended |
| 2014 | Parrots Over Puerto Rico | Cindy Trumbore | Susan L. Roth | Lee & Low Books | Winner |
| 2014 | Diego Rivera: An Artist for the People | Susan Goldman Rubin | | Abrams Books | Honor |
| 2014 | Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote | Duncan Tonatiuh | Duncan Tonatiuh | Abrams Books | Honor |
| 2014 | Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass | Meg Medina | | Candlewick Press | Commended |
| 2014 | Maria Had A Little Llama / María Tenía Una Llamita | Angela Dominguez | Angela Dominguez | Henry Holt and Company | Commended |
| 2014 | Tito Puente, Mambo King / Tito Puente, Rey del Mambo | Monica Brown | Rafael López | Rayo | Commended |
| 2014 | The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba’s Greatest Abolitionist | Margarita Engle | | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Commended |
| 2014 | Enrique's Journey | Sonia Nazario | | Delacorte Press | Commended |
| 2014 | Round Is a Tortilla | Roseanne Greenfield Thong | John Parra | Chronicle Books | Commended |
| 2014 | Serafina's Promise | Ann E. Burg | | Scholastic | Commended |
| 2015 | Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation | Duncan Tonatiuh | Duncan Tonatiuh | Abrams Books | Winner |
| 2015 | Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal | Margarita Engle | | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Winner |
| 2015 | Migrant | José Manuel Mateo | Javier Martínez Pedro | Abrams Books | Honor |
| 2015 | Strike! The Farm Workers’ Fight for their Rights | Larry Dane Brimner | | Calkins Creek | Honor |
| 2015 | A de Activista | Martha E. Gonzalez | Innosanto Nagara | Triangle Square | Commended |
| 2015 | Abuelo | Arthur Dorros | Raúl Colón | HarperCollins | Commended |
| 2015 | Caminar | Skila Brown | | Candlewick Press | Commended |
| 2015 | Dalia's Wondrous Hair / El cabello maravillosa de Dalia | Laura Lacámara | Laura Lacámara | Piñata Books | Commended |
| 2015 | Frida & Diego: Art, Love, Life | Catherine Reef | | Clarion Books | Commended |
| 2015 | Gabi, a Girl in Pieces | Isabel Quintero | | Cinco Puntos Press | Commended |
| 2015 | Green Is a Chile Pepper: A Book of Colors | Roseanne Greenfield Thong | John Parra | Chronicle Books | Commended |
| 2015 | I Lived on Butterfly Hill | Marjorie Agosín | | Atheneum Books | Commended |
| 2015 | Letters from Heaven / Cartas del Cielo | Lydia Gil | | Arte Público Press | Commended |
| 2015 | Lowriders in Space | Cathy Camper | Raúl the Third | Chronicle Books | Commended |
| 2015 | Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes | Juan Felipe Herrera | Raúl Colón | Dial Press | Commended |
| 2015 | The Secret Side of Empty | Maria E. Andreu | | Running Press | Commended |
| 2015 | ‘Twas Nochebuena | Roseanne Greenfield Thong | Sara Palacios | Viking Press | Commended |
| 2016 | Echo | Pam Muñoz Ryan | | Scholastic | Winner |
| 2016 | Out of Darkness | Ashley Hope Pérez | | Carolrhoda Lab | Winner |
| 2016 | Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras | Duncan Tonatiuh | Duncan Tonatiuh | Abrams Books | Honor |
| 2016 | Growing Up Pedro: How the Martinez Brothers Made it from the Dominican Republic All the Way to the Major Leagues | Matt Tavares | Matt Tavares | Candlewick Press | Honor |
| 2016 | A Handful of Stars | Cynthia Lord | | Scholastic | Commended |
| 2016 | Dream Things True | Marie Marquardt | | St. Martin's Griffin | Commended |
| 2016 | Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music | Margarita Engle | Rafael López | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Commended |
| 2016 | Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir | Margarita Engle | Edel Rodríguez | Atheneum Books | Commended |
| 2016 | Finding the Music / En pos de la música | Jennifer Torres | Renato Alarcão | Lee & Low Books | Commended |
| 2016 | Island Treasures | Alma Flor Ada | Edel Rodríguez | Atheneum Books | Commended |
| 2016 | Maya's Blanket / La manta de Maya | Monica Brown | David Díaz | Lee & Low Books | Commended |
| 2016 | My Tata's Remedies / Los remedios de mi tata | Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford | Antonio Castro L. | Cinco Puntos Press | Commended |
| 2016 | Salsa: Un poema para cocinar / A Cooking Poem | Jorge Argueta, trans. by Elisa Amado | Duncan Tonatiuh | Groundwood Books | Commended |
| 2016 | The Jumbies | Tracey Baptiste | | Algonquin Books | Commended |
| 2016 | The Lightning Queen | Laura Resau | | Scholastic | Commended |
| 2016 | Two White Rabbits | Jairo Buitrago | Rafael Yockteng | Groundwood Books | Commended |
| 2017 | The Only Road | Alexandra Diaz | | Simon & Schuster | Winner |
| 2017 | Ada's Violin | Susan Hood | Sally Wern Comport | Simon & Schuster | Winner |
| 2017 | Malaika's Costume | Nadia L. Hohn | Irene Luxbacher | Groundwood Books | Honor |
| 2017 | The Distance Between Us | Reyna Grande | | Simon & Schuster | Honor |
| 2017 | Burn Baby Burn | Meg Medina | | Candlewick Press | Commended |
| 2017 | Juana & Lucas | Juana Medina | Juana Medina | Candlewick Press | Commended |
| 2017 | Lion Island | Margarita Engle | | Simon & Schuster | Commended |
| 2017 | Lowriders to the Center of the Earth | Cathy Camper | Raúl the Third | Chronicle Books | Commended |
| 2017 | Mamá the Alien / Mamá La Extraterrestre | René Colato Laínez | Laura Lacámara | Children's Book Press | Commended |
| 2017 | Margarito's Forest / El Bosque de Don Margarito | Andy Carter | Allison Havens | Hard Ball Press | Commended |
| 2017 | Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat | Javaka Steptoe | Javaka Steptoe | Hachette | Commended |
| 2017 | Rainbow Weaver / Tejedora del arcoirís | Linda Elovitz Marshall | Elisa Chavarri | Children's Book Press, Lee & Low Books | Commended |
| 2017 | Shame the Stars | Guadalupe García McCall | | Lee & Low Books | Commended |
| 2017 | Somos Como Los Nubes / We are Like the Clouds | Jorge Argueta | Alfonso Ruano | Groundwood Books | Commended |
| 2017 | The Memory of Light | Francisco X. Stork | | Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic | Commended |
| 2017 | The Princess and the Warrior | Duncan Tonatiuh | Duncan Tonatiuh | Abrams Books | Commended |
| 2017 | The School the Aztec Eagles Built | Dorinda Makanaōnalani Nicholson | | Lee & Low Books | Commended |
| 2018 | American Street | Ibi Zoboi | | HarperCollins | Winner |
| 2018 | Danza!: Amalia Hernández and el Ballet Folklórico de México | Duncan Tonatiuh | Duncan Tonatiuh | Abrams Books | Winner |
| 2018 | All the Way to Havana | Margarita Engle | Mike Curato | Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company | Honor |
| 2018 | Lucky Broken Girl | Ruth Behar | | Penguin Random House | Honor |
| 2018 | Bravo! Poems About Amazing Hispanics | Margarita Engle | Rafael López | Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company | Commended |
| 2018 | Disappeared | Francisco X. Stork | | Arthur A. Levine Books | Commended |
| 2018 | The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora | Pablo Cartaya | | Penguin Random House | Commended |
| 2018 | Forest World | Margarita Engle | | Atheneum Books | Commended |
| 2018 | Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos | Monica Brown | John Parra | NorthSouth Books | Commended |
| 2018 | Lucía the Luchadora | Cynthia Leonor Garza | Alyssa Bermudez | Pow Kids Books | Commended |
| 2018 | Martí’s Song for Freedom / Martí y sus Versos por la Libertad | Emma Otheguy | Beatriz Vidal | Children's Book Press | Commended |
| 2018 | Rubén Darío | Georgina Lázaro | Lonnie Ruiz | Lectorum Publications | Commended |
| 2018 | Sing, Don't Cry | Angela Dominguez | Angela Dominguez | Henry Holt and Company | Commended |
| 2018 | The First Rule of Punk | Celia C. Pérez | | Penguin Random House | Commended |
| 2018 | The Inexplicable Logic of My Life | Benjamin Alire Sáenz | | Clarion Books | Commended |
| 2018 | The Little Doctor / El Doctorcito | Juan J. Guerra | Victoria Castillo | Piñata Books | Commended |
| 2018 | Little Skeletons Countdown to Midnight / Esqueletitos: Un Libro Para Contar En EL Día De Los Muertos | Susie Jaramillo | Susie Jaramillo | Canticos | Commended |
| 2019 | Islandborn | Junot Díaz | Leo Espinosa | Dial Press | Winner |
| 2019 | Undocumented: A Worker's Fight | Duncan Tonatiuh | Duncan Tonatiuh | Abrams Books | Winner |
| 2019 | Auntie Luce's Talking Paintings | Francie Latour | Ken Daley | Groundwood Books | Honor |
| 2019 | The Poet X | Elizabeth Acevedo | | HarperCollins | Honor |
| 2019 | Alma and How She Got Her Name | Juana Martinez-Neal | Juana Martinez-Neal | Candlewick Press | Commended |
| 2019 | Carmela Full of Wishes | Matt de la Peña | Christian Robinson | G. P. Putnam's Sons | Commended |
| 2019 | Dreamers | Yuyi Morales | Yuyi Morales | Neal Porter Books | Commended |
| 2019 | La Frontera: My Journey with Papá | Deborah Mills & Alfredo Alva | Claudia Navarro | Barefoot Books | Commended |
| 2019 | A Gift from Abuela | Cecilia Ruiz | Cecilia Ruiz | Candlewick Press | Commended |
| 2019 | Jazz Owls | Margarita Engle | | Atheneum Books | Commended |
| 2019 | Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish | Pablo Cartaya | | Viking Press | Commended |
| 2019 | Merci Suárez Changes Gears | Meg Medina | | Candlewick Press | Commended |
| 2019 | The Photographic Life of Graciela Iturbide | Isabel Quintero | Zeke Peña | Abrams Books | Commended |
| 2019 | Puerto Rico Strong: A Comics Anthology Supporting Puerto Rico Disaster | Vita Ayala, Hazel Newlevant and Desiree Rodriguez (eds.) | | Lion Forge Comics | Commended |
| 2019 | They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems | David Bowles | | Cinco Puntos Press | Commended |
| 2019 | When Angels Sing: The Story of Rock Legend Carlos Santana | Michael Mahin | Jose Ramirez | Atheneum Books | Commended |
| 2020 | Beast Rider | Tony Johnston and Maria Elena Fontanot De Rhoads | | Amulet Books | Winner |
| 2020 | Between Us and Abuela | Mitali Perkins | Sara Palacios | Farrar Straus Giroux | Winner |
| 2020 | My Papi has a Motorcycle | Isabel Quintero | Zeke Peña | Penguin Young Readers Group | Honor |
| 2020 | The Moon Within | Aida Salazar | | Arthur A. Levine Books | Honor |
| 2020 | The Other Half of Happy | Rebecca Balcárcel | | Chronicle Books | Honor |
| 2020 | Along the Tapajós | Fernando Vilela, trans. buy Daniel Hahn | Fernando Vilela | Amazon Crossing Kids | Commended |
| 2020 | A New Home | Tania de Regil | Tania de Regil | Candlewick Press | Commended |
| 2020 | Caravan to the North | Jorge Argueta | | Groundwood Books | Commended |
| 2020 | Freedom Soup | Tami Charles | Jacqueline Alcántara | Candlewick Press | Commended |
| 2020 | Fuego Fuegito/ Fire, Little Fire/ Tit, Titchin | Jorge Tetl Argueta | Felipe Ugalde Alcántara | Piñata Books | Commended |
| 2020 | Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré | Anika Aldamuy Denise | Paola Escobar Harper | HarperCollins | Commended |
| 2020 | Soldier for Equality: José de la Luz Sáenz and the Great War | Duncan Tonatiuh | Duncan Tonatiuh | Abrams Books for Young Readers | Commended |
| 2020 | The Other Side: Stories of Central American Teen Refugees Who Dream of Crossing the Border | Juan Pablo Villalobos | | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Commended |
| 2020 | Titanosaur | José Luis Carballido and Diego Pol | Florencia Gigena | Orchard Books | Commended |
| 2021 | Digging for Words | Angela Burke Kunkel | Paola Escobar | Schwartz & Wade | Winner |
| 2021 | Land of the Cranes | Aida Salazar | | Scholastic | Winner |
| 2021 | Furia | Yamile Saied Mendez | | Algonquin Press | Honor |
| 2021 | If Dominican Were a Color | Sili Recio | Brianna McCarthy | Denene Millner Books | Honor |
| 2021 | Vamos! Let's Go Eat | Raúl the Third | Elaine Bay | Versify | Honor |
| 2022 | Child of the Flower-Song People | Gloria Amescua | Duncan Tonatiuh | Abrams ComicArts | Winner |
| 2022 | My Two Border Towns | David Bowles | Erika Meza | Kokila | Winner |
| 2022 | Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna | Alda P. Dobbs | | Sourcebooks Young Readers | Honor |
| 2022 | Niños: Poems for the Lost Children of Chile | María José Ferrada | María Elena Valdez | Eerdmans Books for Young Readers | Honor |
| 2022 | The Last Cuentista | Donna Barba Higuera | | Levine Querido | Honor |
| 2022 | ABC El Salvador | Holly Ayala | Elizabeth Gómez | Luna's Press Books | Commended |
| 2022 | Aqui era el paraiso/Here Was Paradise | Humberto Akʼabal | Amelia Lau Carling | Groundwood Books | Commended |
| 2022 | Coquí in the City | Nomar Perez | Nomar Perez | Dial Books | Commended |
| 2022 | Isabel and Her Colores Go to School | Alexandra Alessandri | Courtney Dawson | Sleeping Bear Press | Commended |
| 2022 | Lotería | Karla Arenas Valenti | Dana SanMar | Knopf Books for Young Readers | Commended |
| 2022 | ¡¡Manu!! | Kelly Fernández | Kelly Fernández | Graphix | Commended |
| 2022 | Neverforgotten | Alejandra Algorta, trans. by Aida Salazar | Iván Rickenmann | Levine Querido | Commended |
| 2022 | On the Hook | Francisco X. Stork | | Scholastic Press | Commended |
| 2022 | The Life of – La Vida de Dolores | Patty Rodriguez and Ariana Stein | Citlali Reyes | Lil’ Libros Press | Commended |
| 2022 | The Mirror Season | Anna-Marie McLemore | | Feiwel & Friends | Commended |
| 2022 | To Carnaval! A Celebration in Saint Lucia | Baptiste Paul | Jana Glatt | Barefoot Books | Commended |
| 2022 | When We Make It | Elisabet Velasquez | | Dial Books | Commended |
| 2022 | Your Heart, My Sky: Love in a Time of Hunger | Margarita Engle | | Atheneum Books for Young Readers | Commended |
| 2022 | Zonia's Rain Forest | Juana Martinez-Neal | Juana Martinez-Neal | Candlewick Press | Commended |
| 2023 | Growing an Artist: The Story of a Landscaper and His Son | John Parra | | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | Winner |
| 2023 | Isla to Island | Alexis Castellanos | | Atheneum Books for Young Readers | Winner |
| 2023 | ¡Ándale, Prieta! | Yasmín Ramírez | | Lee & Low Books | Honor |
| 2023 | Miss Quinces | Kat Fajardo | Mariana Azzi | Graphix | Honor |
| 2023 | Self-Made Boys | Anna-Marie McLemore | | Feiwel and Friends | Honor |
| 2023 | Abuela's Fideo: A Story of a Grandma's Love | Gabriela Tijerina | Gabriela Tijerina | Del Alma Publications | Commended |
| 2023 | Abuelita and Me | Leonarda Carranza | Rafael Mayani | Annick Press | Commended |
| 2023 | Amazona | Canizales | Canizales | Graphic Universe | Commended |
| 2023 | Chabelita's Heart / El corazón de Chabelita | Isabel Millán | Rafael Mayani | Reflection Press | Commended |
| 2023 | Frizzy | Claribel A. Ortega | Rose Bousamra | First Second | Commended |
| 2023 | Hispanic Star: Roberto Clemente | Claudia Romo Edelman and Sara E. Echenique | Manuel Gutierrez | Roaring Brook Press | Commended |
| 2023 | Invisible | Christina Diaz Gonzalez | Gabriela Epstein | Graphix | Commended |
| 2023 | Islands Apart: Becoming Dominican America | Jasminne Mendez | | Piñata Books | Commended |
| 2023 | Lakelore | Anna-Marie McLemore | | Feiwel & Friends | Commended |
| 2023 | Llort: The life of-la vida de Llort | Cynthia Gonzalez | Citlali Reyes | Lil' Libros | Commended |
| 2023 | My Neighborhood | María José Ferrada, trans. by Kit Maude | Ana Penyas | Tapioca Stories | Commended |
| 2023 | El niño de maíz/The Boy of Maize | Mario Bencastro | Christina Rodriguez | Piñata Books | Commended |
| 2023 | Rima's Rebellion: Courage in a Time of Tyranny | Margarita Engle | | Atheneum Books for Young Readers | Commended |
| 2023 | The Secret of the Plátano | Luz Maria Mack | Stephany Mesa | Soaring Kite Books | Commended |
| 2023 | Still Dreaming/Seguimos soñando | Claudia Guadalupe Martinez, trans. by Luis Humberto Crosthwaite | Magdalena Mora | Children's Book Press | Commended |
| 2023 | Tumble | Celia C. Pérez | | Kokila | Commended |
| 2023 | Where Wonder Grows | Xelena González | Adriana M. Garcia | Cinco Puntos Press | Commended |

## Recipients of multiple awards and honors
### Multiple Américas Awards

One person's works have received four Américas Awards:
* Margarita Engle, as author in 2006, 2009, 2012, and 2015.
One person's works have received three Américas Awards:
* Duncan Tonatiuh, as author and illustrator in 2015, 2018, and 2019.
Multiple people's works have won two Américas Awards:
* As author and illustrator: Yuyi Morales.
* As author: Julia Alvarez, Monica Brown, Juan Felipe Herrera, Francisco Jiménez, Lynn Joseph and Pam Muñoz Ryan.

### Multiple Américas Honors

Multiple people's works have received two honors:
* As author and illustrator: Maya Christina González, Yuyi Morales, and Duncan Tonatiuh
* As illustrator David Díaz
* As author: Margarita Engle, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and Laura Resau

### Multiple Américas Commendations

Different works by the same authors or illustrators have received commendations in the same year.
Two people's work has received commendations nine times:
* George Ancona as both author and illustrator in 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007–2008, and 2011.
* Maya Christina González as illustrator twice in 1997, and once 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2007–2008, and 2009; and as author and illustrator in 2007–2008.
Three people's work has received commendations eight times:
* Jorge Argueta as author in 2003, twice in 2006, 2007–2008, 2010, 2011, 2016, and 2017.
* Margarita Engle as author in 2010, 2014, twice in 2016, 2017, twice in 2018, and 2019.
* Gary Soto as author in 1995, twice in 1997, twice in 1998, 2003, 2006, and 2009.
Two people's work has received commendations seven times:
* Alma Flor Ada as author in 1995, twice in 1997, 1998, 2002, and 2016.
* Pat Mora as author in 1996, 1997, 2002, twice in 2010, and 2011.
Two people's works have received commendations six times:
* David Díaz as illustrator in 1996, 2000, 2002, 2010, 2011, and 2016.
* Enrique O. Sánchez as illustrator in 1993, 1994, twice in 1996, 1997, and 1999.
Four people's works have received commendations five times:
* Francisco X. Alarcón as author in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, and 2009.
* Monica Brown as author in 2007–2008, 2010, 2014, 2016, and 2018.
* Raúl Colón as illustrator in 1997, 2005, 2007–2008, and twice in 2015.
* Francisco X. Stork as author in 2006, 2010, 2011, 2017, and 2018.
Eight people's works have received commendations four times:
* Lori Marie Carlson as author in 1994, 1996, 2005, and 2009.
* Lulu Delacre as illustrator in 1994 and 1997; as author in 1996; and author and illustrator in 2000.
* Domi as illustrator in 2006, 2006, 2009, and 2011.
* Arthur Dorros as author and illustrator in 1993 and 1995, and as author in 2005 and 2015.
* Tony Johnston as author in 1994, 1997, 2001, and 2010.
* Rafael López as illustrator in 2010, 2014, 2016, and 2018.
* Edel Rodríguez as illustrator in 2001, 2010, and twice in 2016.
* Benjamin Alire Sáenz as author in twice in 2009, 2013, and 2018.
Twenty people's works have received commendations three times:
* Rudolfo Anaya as author in 1995, 2000, and 2004.
* Carmen T. Bernier-Grand as author in 1994, 2007–2008, and 2010.
* Robert Casilla as illustrator in 1993, 1996, and 2004.
* Joe Cepeda as illustrator in 1998, 2007–2008, and 2011.
* René Colato Laínez as author in 2010, 2011, and 2017.
* Amy Córdova as illustrator in 2004, 2009, and 2011.
* Tomie dePaola as author and illustrator in 1994, and as illustrator in 1994 and 1999.
* Luis Garay as illustrator in 1996 and 2007–2008, and as author and illustrator in 1997.
* Phillis Gershator as author twice in 1994 and once in 1998.
* Juan Felipe Herrera as author in 1995, 2002, and 2015.
* Francisco Jiménez as author in 1998, 2000, and 2009.
* Elisa Kleven as illustrator in 1994 and 1997, and author and illustrator in 1996.
* Georgina Lázaro as author in 2009, 2010, and 2018.
* Frané Lessac as author and illustrator in 1994, and as illustrator in 1994 and 2013.
* Meg Medina as author in 2014, 2017, and 2019.
* Roseanne Greenfield Thong as author in 2014 and twice in 2015.
* Duncan Tonatiuh as author and illustrator in 2011 and 2017, and as illustrator in 2016.
* Beatriz Vidal as illustrator in 1998, 2002, and 2018.
* Jeanette Winter as illustrator in 1997, and as author and illustrator in 2007-2008 and 2011.
* Rafael Yockteng as illustrator in 2002, 2010, and 2016.
Multiple people's work has received two commendations:
* As author and illustrator: Angela Dominguez, Laura Lacámara, Yuyi Morales, and Leyla Torres.
* As illustrator: Jamel Akib, Renato Alarcão, Andrea Arroyo, Martha Avilés, Claire B. Cotts, Felipe Dávalos, Carla Golembe, Ann Grifalconi, Holly Meade, John Parra, Raúl the Third, Alfonso Ruano, Synthia Saint James, Elivia Savadier, Simón Silva.
* As author: Eve Bunting, Cathy Camper, Teresa Cárdenas, Pablo Cartaya, Omar S. Castañeda, Matt de la Peña, Campbell Geeslin, Mary-Joan Gerson, Lucía M. González, Rigoberta Menchú, Jose-Luis Orozco, Amada Irma Pérez, Isabel Quintero, Vashanti Rahaman, Antonio Ramírez, Laura Resau, Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford, Carmen Tafolla, Erika Tamar, Nancy Van Laan, and Jonah Winter.