Book Awards & Distinctions
for Ellen Levine
14 Total Book Awards
Henry's Freedom Box (5)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2008

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2008

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2008

Original Art Medal, 2002-2024
Silver Winner, 2008

Randolph Caldecott Medal, 1938-2025
Honor, 2008
Darkness Over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews (4)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2001

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Fiction Winner, 2001

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Commended, 2001
A Fence Away from Freedom (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1995

Carter G. Woodson Book Award, 1974-2024
Winner, 1996
Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1993

Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, 1953-2025
Books for Older Children Winner, 1994
Catch a Tiger by the Toe (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2006