NAACP 2013 Image Award Nominees Announced
December 12, 2012
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has unveiled the nominees for the 2013 Image Awards. The organization recognized ten children's literature titles in two categories: "Literary Work - Children" and the "Literary Work - Youth/Teens." Two actors from The Hunger Games film cast, Lenny Kravitz and Amandla Stenberg, also received nominations.
Literary Work - Children
Fifty Cents and a Dream - Jabari Asim (Author), Bryan Collier (Illustrator) (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Harlem's Little Blackbird - Renee Watson (Author), Christian Robinson (Illustrator) (Random House Books for Young Readers)
In the Land of Milk and Honey - Joyce Carol Thomas (Author), Floyd Cooper (Illustrator) (HarperCollins / Amistad)
Indigo Blume and the Garden City - Kwame Alexander (Word of Mouth Books)
What Color is My World? - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Author), Raymons Obstfeld (Author), A.G. Ford (Illustrator) (Candlewick Press)
Literary Work - Youth/Teens
Fire in the Streets - Kekla Magoon (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing)
Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons - A Dialogue With America's Young Leaders - Gregory Reed (Amber Books)
Pinned - Sharon G. Flake (Scholastic Press)
The Diary of B. B. Bright, Possible Princess - Alice Randall (Author), Caroline Williams (Author), Shadra Strickland (Illustrator) (Turner Publishing Company)
The Mighty Miss Malone - Christopher Paul Curtis (Wendy Lamb Books)