Author record · 2020 to 2025

April Harrison: Awards and Best-of Lists

April Harrison has won 1 award, the Coretta Scott King Book Awards (2020) for What Is Given from the Heart, with 3 shortlist or finalist places in our archive.

Also credited with Breanna J. McDaniel, Dinah Johnson, Michelle Edwards, Patricia C. McKissack

Every recognition

Year is the award or list year, not the publication year.
YearBookSourceResultTranslator
2025Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master StorytellerCoretta Scott King Book Awards source (opens in a new tab)Honor · Illustrator
2023Me and the Boss: A Story about Mending and LoveCoretta Scott King Book Awards source (opens in a new tab)Honor · Illustrator
2023H Is for HarlemBoston Globe–Horn Book Awards source (opens in a new tab)Honor · Nonfiction
2020What Is Given from the HeartCoretta Scott King Book Awards source (opens in a new tab)Winner · John Steptoe New Talent

Books

  1. Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller1 source · 2025
  2. H Is for Harlem1 source · 2023
  3. Me and the Boss: A Story about Mending and Love1 source · 2023
  4. What Is Given from the Heart1 source · 2020