Schneider Family Book Award
About the Schneider Family Book Award
The Schneider Family Book Awards honor an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.
Click here for the Schneider Family Book Award Manual (PDF)
Bibliography of Children's Books about the Disability Experience (pdf)
Click here for the Schneider Family Book Award Manual (PDF)
Bibliography of Children's Books about the Disability Experience (pdf)
Name | Title | Year |
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Where You See Yourself | 2024 - Honor | |
Henry, Like Always | 2024 - Winner | |
Forever is Now | 2024 - Winner | |
Tilly in Technicolor | 2024 - Honor | |
The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn | 2024 - Winner | |
Simon Sort of Says | 2024 - Honor | |
Good Different | 2024 - Honor | |
Dancing Hands | 2024 - Honor | |
What Happened to You? | 2024 - Honor | |
In the Blue | In the Blue | 2023 - Honor |
Breathe and Count Back From Ten | 2023 - Honor | |
WILDOAK | WILDOAK | 2023 - Winner |
Hummingbird | 2023 - Honor | |
Honestly Elliott | 2023 - Honor | |
Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion | Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion | 2023 - Winner |
A Sky-Blue Bench | A Sky-Blue Bench | 2022 - Honor |
A Walk in the Words | A Walk in the Words | 2022 - Honor |
My City Speaks | My City Speaks | 2022 - Winner |
A Bird Will Soar | A Bird Will Soar | 2022 - Winner |
Stuntboy, in the Meantime | Stuntboy, in the Meantime | 2022 - Honor |
A Kind of Spark | 2022 - Honor | |
Words in my Hands | Words in my Hands | 2022 - Winner |
A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome | A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome | 2022 - Winner |
When Stars are Scattered | 2021 - Honor | |
This is My Brain in Love | 2021 - Winner | |
Get A Grip Vivy Cohen | 2021 - Honor | |
Itzhak: A Boy Who Loved the Violin | 2021 - Honor | |
Show Me A Sign | 2021 - Winner | |
All the Way to the Top: How One Girl's Fight for American with Disabilities Changed Everything | 2021 - Honor | |
I Talk Like A River | 2021 - Winner | |
Just Ask | Just Ask | 2020 - Winner |
A Friend for Henry | A Friend for Henry | 2020 - Winner |
Song For A Whale | Song For A Whale | 2020 - Winner |
Each Tiny Spark | Each Tiny Spark | 2020 - Winner |
The Silence Between Us | The Silence Between Us | 2020 - Winner |
Silverstein, Karol Ruth | Cursed | 2020 - Winner |
Oliveros, Jessie | The Remember Balloons | 2019 - Honor |
Kensky, Jessica | Rescue & Jessica A Life-Changing Friendship | 2019 - Winner |
Downes, Patrick | Rescue & Jessica A Life-Changing Friendship | 2019 - Winner |
Magoon, Scott | Rescue & Jessica A Life-Changing Friendship | 2019 - Winner |
West, West | The Collectors | 2019 - Honor |
Wulfekotte, Dana | The Remember Balloons | 2019 - Honor |
Connor, Leslie | The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle | 2019 - Winner |
Jensen, Kelly | (Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health | 2019 - Honor |
Gardner, Whitney | You’re Welcome, Universe | 2018 - Winner |
Green, Shari | Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess | 2018 - Winner |
Say, Allan | Silent Days, Silent Dreams | 2018 - Winner |
Reynolds, Jason | as brave as you | 2017 - Winner |
Lord, Emery | When We Collided | 2017 - Winner |
Bryant, Jen | Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille | 2017 - Winner |
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker | War | 2016 - Winner |
Hunt, Lynda Mullaly | Fish | 2016 - Winner |
Qualls, Sean | Emmanuel | 2016 - Winner |
Thompson, Laurie Ann | Emmanuel | 2016 - Winner |
Toten, Teresa | unlikely | 2016 - Winner |
Giles, Gail | Girls Like Us | 2015 - Winner |
Martin, Ann M. | RAIN REIGN | 2015 - Winner |
Rabinowitz, Alan | A BOY AND A JAGUAR | 2015 - Winner |
Bryant, Jen | Splash of Red | 2014 - Winner |
Wein, Elizabeth | Rose under fire | 2014 - Winner |
Haskell, Merrie | Handbook for Dragon Slayers | 2014 - Winner |
Sweet, Melissa | Splash of Red | 2014 - Winner |
Lean, Sarah | A Dog Called Homeless | 2013 - Winner |
Alexander, Claire | Back to Front and Upside Down! | 2013 - Winner |
Lerangis, Peter | Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am | 2013 - Winner |
Mazer, Harry | Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am | 2013 - Winner |
Van Draanen, Wendelin | The Running Dream | 2012 - Winner |
Selznick, Brian | Wonderstruck: A Novel in Words and Pictures | 2012 - Winner |
Bauer, Joan | close to famous | 2012 - Winner |
John, Antony | Five Flavors of Dumb | 2011 - Winner |
Sonnenblick, Jordan | After Ever After | 2011 - Winner |
Avril, Lynne | The Pirate of Kindergarten | 2011 - Winner |
Lyon, George Ella | The Pirate of Kindergarten | 2011 - Winner |
Baskin, Nora Raleigh | Anything but Typical | 2010 - Winner |
Stork, Francisco X. | Marcelo in the Real World | 2010 - Winner |
Christensen, Bonnie | Django | 2010 - Winner |
Friesen, Jonathan | Jerk, California | 2009 - Winner |
Connor, Leslie | Waiting for Normal | 2009 - Winner |
Parker, Robert Andrew | Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum | 2009 - Winner |
Stryer, Andrea Stenn | Kami and the Yaks | 2008 - Winner |
Dodson, Bert | Kami and the Yaks | 2008 - Winner |
Zimmer, Tracie Vaughn | Reaching for Sun | 2008 - Winner |
Rorby, Ginny | Hurt Go Happy | 2008 - Winner |
Lord, Cynthis | Rules | 2007 - Winner |
Christie, R. Gregory | The Deaf Musicians | 2007 - Winner |
Seeger, Pete | The Deaf Musicians | 2007 - Winner |
DuBois, Paul | The Deaf Musicians | 2007 - Winner |
Sachar, Louis | Small Steps | 2007 - Winner |
Bootman, Colin | Dad, Jackie, and Me | 2006 - Winner |
Uhlberg, Myron | Dad, Jackie, and Me | 2006 - Winner |
Fusco, Kimberly Newton | Tending to Grace | 2006 - Winner |
Rapp, Adam | Under the Wolf, Under the Dog | 2006 - Winner |
Sweetland, Robert L. | My Pal Victor/Mi amigo, Victor | 2005 - Winner |
Gonzaels, Diane | My Pal Victor/Mi amigo, Victor | 2005 - Winner |
Ryan, Pam Muñoz | Becoming Naomi León | 2005 - Winner |
Abeel, Samantha | My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir | 2005 - Winner |
Lang, Glenna | Looking Out For Sarah | 2004 - Winner |
Clements, Andrew | Things Not Seen | 2004 - Winner |
Mass, Wendy | A Mango Shaped Space | 2004 - Winner |