Author record · 2013 to 2023

Daniel Minter: Awards and Best-of Lists

Daniel Minter has won 1 award, the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children (2023) for Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky, with 2 shortlist or finalist places and 2 year-end list picks in our archive.

Also credited with Kelly Starling Lyons, Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond, Donna Janell Bowman

Every recognition

Year is the award or list year, not the publication year.
YearBookSourceResultTranslator
2023Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the SkyNCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children source (opens in a new tab)Winner · Nonfiction for Children
2022Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the SkyNPR Books We Love source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Books We Love
2020Going Down Home with DaddyRandolph Caldecott Medal source (opens in a new tab)Honor · Picture Book
2017Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about KindnessNCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Nonfiction for Children
2013Ellen's BroomCoretta Scott King Book Awards source (opens in a new tab)Honor · Illustrator

Books

  1. Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky2 sources · 2022 to 2023
  2. Ellen's Broom1 source · 2013
  3. Going Down Home with Daddy1 source · 2020
  4. Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness1 source · 2017