Christopher Paul Curtis - Awards/Honors/Nominations

Awards/Honors/Nominations

THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM-1963

• Newbery Honor Book.
• Coretta Scott King Honor Book.
• A Publisher's Weekly Best Book Of The Year.
• A New York Times Book Review Best Book Of The Year.
• A California Young Reader Medal Winner.
• A Maine Student Book Award Winner.
• An American Library Association (ALA) Best Book For Young Adults.
• An ALA Notable Children's Book.
• A Horn Book Fanfare.
• A Texas Lone Star Reading List Title.
• A Bank Street College Best Book Of The Year.
• A Massachusetts Children's Book Award Winner.
• A NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies.
• A NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book In The field of Language Arts.
• A New Mexico Land Of Enchantment Book Award Winner.
• An Arkansas Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award Winner.
• A Society of Children's Book Writers and illustrators Golden Kite Award Winner.
• A New York Times' Top One Hundred Books Of The Year, 1996. (The only book for young readers to be so honored.)
• A Jane Addams Peace Award Honor Book.
• An American Library Association Top Ten Best Book/Quick Pick.
• An International Reading Association Notable Book For a Global Society.
• An Indiana Department of Education Read Aloud List Book.
• A Bulletin For the Center of Children's Books Blue Ribbon.
• A Booklist Top 25 Black History Picks for Youth Book.
• An International Reading Association Young Adult Choice.
• A 1995 Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Golden Kite Award.
• A New Mexico Land Of Enchantment Book Award Winner.
• A Top Choice List of 2000 for Children's Literature.
• A Virginia Young Readerr's Program Book.
• A Indiana Young Hoosier Book Award Nominee.
• A Nevada Young Reader Award Nominee.
• A Nebraska Golden Sower Award Nominee.
• A Missouri Mark Twain Award Nominee.
• A Minnesota Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award Nominee.
• A Michigan Reading Association Children's Choic Award Nominee.
• A Kansas William Allen White Award Nominee.
• A Illinois Rebecca Caudill Award Nominee.
• A Hawaii Nene Award Nominee
• A USBBY Janusz Korzak Literary Prize Nominee.
• A New Hampshire Great Stoneface Book Award Nominee.
• A Tennessee Volunteer State Award Nominee.
• A South Carolina Junior Book Award Nominee.
• A Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award Nominee.
• A Pacific Northwest Young Reader's Choice Award Nominee.
• A Oklahoma Sequoyah Young Adult Book Award Nominee.

BUD, NOT BUDDY.

• A 2000 Newbery Medal Winner. (First African-American man to win the award.)
• A 2000 Coretta Scott KIng Author Award Winner.
• A School Library Journal Best Book Of The Year.
• An International Readers Association (IRA) Children's Book Award For Older Readers.
• A NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book.
• A Publisher's Weekly Best Book Of The Year.
• An ALA Best Book For Young Adults.
• An ALA Notable Children's Book.
• A New York Times Notable Book.
• A Bulletin For The Center of Children's Books Blue Ribbon book.
• An Arizona Young Readers Award winner (Teen Category).
• A Florida Sunshine State Young Reader's Award.
• A Virginian Capitol Choices List.
• A Massachusetts Chiildren's Book Award Honor Book.
• A New Mexico Book Of Enchantment Book Award Winner.
• A Pacific Northwest Young Reader's Choice Award Winner.
• A Young Reader's Choice Award.
• A Sugar Maple Awards Winner Grades 4-6
• A Hawaii Nene Award Winner.
• A Kentucky Bluegrass Award Winner.
• A Kansas William White Award Winner.
• A Tennessee Volunteer State Award Winner.
• A South Dakota Prairie Pasque Award Winner.
• A Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award Winner.
• A Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award Winner.
• A SCBWI Golden Kite Award Winner.
• A Great Lakes Booksellers Association Children's Chapter Book Award Winner.
• Booklist Top Ten Historical Fiction For Youth.
• A Louisiana Young Reader's Choice Award Nominee.
• A Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Nominee.
• A South Carolina Junior Book Award Nominee.
• A Wyoming Inidan Paintbrush Award Nominee.
• A Wisconsin Golden Archer Book Award Nominee.
• A Ohio Buckeye Children's Book Award Grade 6-8 Nominee.
• A North Dakota Flicker Tale Children's Book Award Nominee.
• A Texas Bluebonnet Award Nominee.

MR. CHICKEE'S FUNNY MONEY

• A Parent's Choice Gold Award Winner.

BUCKING THE SARGE

• An ALA Best Books For Young Adults.
• An ALA Notable Children's Book.
• A Great Lakes Booksellers Association Children's Chapter Book Award.
• A Booklist Children's Editors Choice Award.
• A USA Today Best Young Adult Book.
• A SCBWI Golden Kite Award For Fiction Honor Book.
• A School Library Journal Best Book Of The Year.
• A Texas Tayhas High School Reading List Title.
• A Publisher's Weekly Best Children's Book Of The Year.

ELIJAH OF BUXTON

• A Newbery Honor Book.
• Coretta Scott King Award Winner.
• A School Library Journal Best Book.
• A Parent's Choice Gold Award Winner.
• IRA Notable Book For A Global Society.
• A Publisher's Weekly Best Book.
• A Booklist Editor's Choice.
• A Scott O'Dell Award Winner.
• A Kirkus Best Book.
• A Horn Book Fanfare Book.
• A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book.
• A Booklinks Lasting Connections Book.
• A TD Canadian Children's Literature Award Winner.
• A Governor General's Award Children's Text Finalist.
• A Canadian Library Association Book Of The Year.
• An NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book For Young People.
• A White Ravens by the International Youth Library of 2008, Germany Award.
• A Geoffrey Bilson Award For Historical Fiction For Young People Award Winner.
• A Jane Addams Peace Association of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Book for Older Children Honor Award.
• A Great Lakes Book Sellers Association's Children's Chapter Book Award.
• A Red Maple Award Nominee.
• An NAACP Image Award Nominee.
• A 2008 Michigan Notable Author Award Winner

Christopher Paul Curtis appeared on The Tavis Smiley Show on PBS on January 11, 2005.

His name has also been part of an answer on the long-running quiz show Jeopardy. The $1600 answer in the category "Hey Bud!" on January 13, 2005 was: "Christopher Paul Curtis won a Newbery medal in 2000 for his children's book, Bud, Not... this." A teacher answered correctly.

He also appeared on The Today Show Book Club to answer questions about his book with Al Roker in 2007.

Curtis won the 2009 Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature, which honors a "nationally acclaimed author who has made a significant contribution to the field of literature and young adults".