Author record · 2006 to 2024
Deborah Hopkinson: Awards and Best-of Lists
Deborah Hopkinson has 3 shortlist or finalist places and 25 year-end list picks in our archive.
Also credited with James E. Ransome
Every recognition
| Year | Book | Source | Result | Translator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Evidence!: How Dr. John Snow Solved the Mystery of Cholera | New York Public Library Best Books source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Best Books for Kids | |
| 2024 | Evidence!: How Dr. John Snow Solved the Mystery of Cholera | Chicago Public Library Best of the Best source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Best Informational Books for Younger Readers | |
| 2024 | World War II Close Up | Kirkus Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Middle Grade | |
| 2024 | Evidence! | Kirkus Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Picture Books | |
| 2023 | Race Against Death: The Greatest POW Rescue of World War II | School Library Journal Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Nonfiction Middle to High School | |
| 2022 | The Deadliest Hurricanes Then and Now | Kirkus Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Middle Grade | |
| 2022 | We Must Not Forget: Holocaust Stories of Survival and Resistance | NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Nonfiction for Children | |
| 2021 | We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kinderstransport | NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Nonfiction for Children | |
| 2020 | We Had to Be Brave | Kirkus Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Middle Grade | |
| 2019 | Carter Reads the Newspaper | New York Public Library Best Books source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Best Books for Kids | |
| 2019 | Carter Reads the Newspaper | Chicago Public Library Best of the Best source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Best Informational Books for Younger Readers | |
| 2017 | Dive!: World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific | NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Nonfiction for Children | |
| 2016 | Dive!: World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific | Chicago Public Library Best of the Best source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Best Informational Books for Older Readers | |
| 2016 | Steamboat School | Chicago Public Library Best of the Best source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Best Informational Books for Younger Readers | |
| 2016 | Steamboat School | Booklist Editors' Choice source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Books for Youth: Fiction, Young Readers | |
| 2016 | Dive! | Kirkus Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Middle Grade | |
| 2016 | Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark | NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Nonfiction for Children | |
| 2016 | Steamboat School | Kirkus Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Picture Books | |
| 2013 | Titanic: Voices from the Disaster | Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Honor · Informational Book | |
| 2013 | Titanic: Voices from the Disaster | YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Finalist · Nonfiction | |
| 2013 | The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel | School Library Journal Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Fiction | |
| 2012 | A Boy Called Dickens | Booklist Editors' Choice source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Books for Youth: Fiction, Middle Readers | |
| 2012 | Titanic: Voices from the Disaster | Horn Book Fanfare source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Nonfiction | |
| 2012 | Titanic | Kirkus Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Teen | |
| 2009 | Stagecoach Sal | Publishers Weekly Best Books source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Children's Picture | |
| 2008 | Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale (Introducing His Forgotten Frontier Friend) | Booklist Editors' Choice source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Books for Youth: Young | |
| 2006 | Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building | Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Honor · Picture Book | |
| 2006 | Up before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America | School Library Journal Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Best Books |
Books
- Titanic: Voices from the Disaster4 sources · 2012 to 2013
- Dive!: World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific3 sources · 2016 to 2017
- Evidence!: How Dr. John Snow Solved the Mystery of Cholera3 sources · 2024
- Steamboat School3 sources · 2016
- Carter Reads the Newspaper2 sources · 2019
- We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kinderstransport2 sources · 2020 to 2021
- A Boy Called Dickens1 source · 2012
- Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale (Introducing His Forgotten Frontier Friend)1 source · 2008
- Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark1 source · 2016
- Race Against Death: The Greatest POW Rescue of World War II1 source · 2023
- Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building1 source · 2006
- Stagecoach Sal1 source · 2009
- The Deadliest Hurricanes Then and Now1 source · 2022
- The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel1 source · 2013
- Up before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America1 source · 2006
- We Must Not Forget: Holocaust Stories of Survival and Resistance1 source · 2022
- World War II Close Up1 source · 2024