American Indian Youth Literature Award winners and honors

Excellent writing and illustration by Native Americans and Indigenous peoples of North America, showing Native people in their full humanity.
 

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1. Berry song

Book cover for "Berry song"
Author:
Goade, Michaela
Notes:
2024 Picture Book honor
Formats:
Book, Read-Along Book
Description:
"As a young Tlingit girl collects wild berries over the seasons, she sings with her grandmother as she learns to speak to the land and listen when the land speaks back." -- Library of Congress.

2. Remember

Book cover for "Remember"
Author:
Harjo, Joy
Notes:
2024 Picture Book honor
Formats:
Book, Read-Along Book
Description:
"Picture book adaptation of US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's iconic poem, Remember"--

3. We are still here!: Native American truths everyone should know

Book cover for "We are still here!"
Author:
Sorell, Traci
Notes:
2022 Picture Book honor
Formats:
Book, Book with Audio CD, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook, Read-Along Book
Description:
"A group of Native American kids from different tribes presents twelve historical and contemporary time periods, struggles, and victories to their classmates, each ending with a powerful refrain: we are still here." --

4. Fry bread: a Native American family story

Book cover for "Fry bread"
Author:
Maillard, Kevin Noble
Notes:
2020 Picture Book honor
Formats:
Book, Hoopla eAudiobook, Read-Along Book
Description:
"Fry bread is food. It is warm and delicious, piled high on a plate. Fry bread is time. It brings families together . . . Fry bread is nation. It is shared by many, from coast to coast and beyond. Fry bread is us. It is a celebration of old and new, traditional and modern, similarity and difference . . . [This book ] is an evocative depiction of a modern Native American family . . ." -- Adapted from dust cover.