Kathleen Krull - Awards

Awards

Krull has written some 60 books, most notably biographies. Her award-winning titles include:

• Lives of the Musicians (Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Award, the PEN West Children’s Literature Award, Society of Children’s Book Writers’ Golden Kite Honor Award, Nonfiction Award from the Southern California Council on Literature for Children and Young People, ALA Notable Book, IRA Teacher’s Choice, Chicago Sun-Times’ “Best 100 Books of the Century”);
• Lives of the Presidents (New Jersey Garden State Children's Book Award, the Oregonian’s Best Children’s Books of the Year, Voya’s Best Nonfiction of 1998, ABC Booksellers Choice, IRA-CBC Children’s Choice);
• Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez (Pura Belpre Honor Book, ALA Notable Book, Jane Addams Picture Book Award, Christopher Award Honor Book, Americas Award, Southern California Children’s Booksellers Award, School Library Journal’s “Best Children’s Books,” Book Links "Lasting Connections");
• Wilma Unlimited (Jane Addams Picture Book Award, ALA Notable Book, Booklist Editor’s Choice, School Library Journal Best Books, Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon, ABA’s Pick of the Lists, Parents' Choice Award);
• The Boy on Fairfield Street: How Ted Geisel Grew Up to Become Dr. Seuss (on the master lists for the Texas Bluebonnet Award, Utah Beehive Award, New York State Reading Association’s Charlotte Award, North Carolina Children’s Book Award, New Jersey Garden State Book Award, New Mexico Land of Enchantment Book Award); Fartiste, with Paul Brewer (NYPL 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing);
• The Boy Who Invented TV (NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book, Parents' Choice Silver Honor selection, Orbis Pictus Award finalist, Eureka! Silver Honor Book—California Reading Association, on the Master List for the 2012 William Allen White Children's Book Awards); and
• Isaac Newton (BCCB Blue Ribbon, School Library Journal Best Book, Booklist “Top 10 Youth Biography,” ALA Notable Book, finalist for the Cybils Awards, a Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year).

In 2011 she won the Children's Book Guild of Washington D.C. Nonfiction Award, an honor presented annually to "an author or illustrator whose total body of work has contributed significantly to the quality of nonfiction for children."