Selina Alko

Awards

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The Remembering Candle

Junior Library Guild Selection

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The Keeper of Stories

2025 Eureka! Gold Honoree

Junior Library Guild Selection

American Illustration 44

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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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I is for IMMIGRANTS

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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