
Selina Alko
Books
Awards
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The Remembering Candle
Junior Library Guild Selection
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The Keeper of Stories
Junior Library Guild Selection
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Sharing Shalom
National Jewish Book Award
Sydney Taylor Notable
2025 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
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Stars of the Night: The Courageous Children of the Czech Kindertransport
National Jewish Book Award Finalist
2024 Social Justice Literature Award Recommended Reading List
ALA Notable Children's Book 2023
2023 Bank Street Books Best Children's Book
New York Public Library Best Books for Kids
Notable Books for a Global Society List Selection
2023 Center for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Literature Best Books of the Year
Orbis Pictus Recommended Book 2023
School Library Journal Best Book 2023
Texas Bluebonnet Masterlist
American Illustration 42
Original Art Show 2023
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SILVER Medal, Society of Illustrators (Book Category), 2022
American Illustration 41
2022 Bank Street Books Best Children's Book of the Year
2022 Capitol Choices Outstanding Titles List
2022 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
Original Art Show 2021
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Joni: The Lyrical Life of Joni Mitchell
The BRAW amazing Bookshelf, Bologna Children's Book Fair
2020 Best Books for Kids & Teens, The Canadian Children's Book Center
A 2020 Mighty Girl's Best Book of the Year
America Illustration 40
Best of 2020, Metropolitan & 24A Magazines
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Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship
Sybil Award finalist, 2019
Charlotte Huck Honor, 2019
ALA Notable Children's Book 2019
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The Case For Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage
2016 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People
NAIBA Carla Cohen Free Speech Award 2015
NAPPA 2015 Award
Junior Library Guild Selection
Communication Arts 2015 Award of Excellence
Original Art Show 2015
2016 Bank Street Books Best Children's Book of the Year
2016 ILA-CBC Children's Choice List
2016 Amelia Bloomer List
Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony & Frederick Douglass
2017 Amelia Bloomer List
Original Art Show 2016
2016 Mills Tannenbaum Award for Excellence in Children's Literacy
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B is for Brooklyn DOE 365 Literacy Campaign poster
(recommended Pre-K classroom book for 2015-16)
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Exhibitions
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PICTURE THE DREAM: Civil Rights' Children's Book Art (traveling group show), The New York Historical Society, NYC, Spring 2022,
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The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, Ma, March 2021, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, June 2020
Richard C. Von Hess Illustration Gallery (solo show), University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2019
BLUE: Songs Are Like Tattoos (solo show), Diana Kane Boutique, October 2018
The Blue Wave Project (The Pen & Ink Brigade group show), Diana Kane Boutique, October 2018
WOMEN MAKING A MARK (group show), University of Indianapolis, January 2018
FEMINIST ICONS (group show), Art Slope, Diana Kane Boutique, Brooklyn, NY, 2016
The Case for Loving (pop-up show), Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, December 2014
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY (solo show), Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, 2013
Clients
Scholastic Press, Knopf, Harper Collins, Macmillan/Henry Holt, Simon & Schuster, Holiday House, Little Brown, Rocky Pond Books, Chronicle Books, Lerner Books, Gibbs Smith Publishing, Barefoot Books, Abrams, North/South Publishing, The Horn Book, School Library Journal, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time Out NY Kids

Picture The Dream. High Museum of Art, 2020



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