Anne Devereaux Jordan Award
The Jordan Award Committee selects the recipient of the Anne Devereaux Jordan Award for Distinguished Service to Children's Literature, which is awarded for significant contribution in scholarship and/or service to the field of children's literature.
Submission Guidelines:
- Nominations for the Anne Devereaux Jordan Award are welcome from any current ChLA member.
- Nominations should be sent to the current ADJ Committee chair by October 10 of a given year. Please send your nomination to Jane Gangi at [email protected].
- When nominating someone, please keep in mind that the award recognizes service and/or scholarship in the field of children's literature over the course of a career, though "service" to our field can be identified in a variety of ways. Please indicate how the nominee has contributed in one or both of these areas in your nomination letter.
Recipients of the Anne Devereaux Jordan Award for Outstanding Achievement in Children's Literature
| 2024: |
Priscilla Ord
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| 2023: |
Roberta Seelinger Trites
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| 2022: |
Beverly Lyon Clark |
| 2021: |
KT Horning |
| 2020: |
Peter Hunt |
| 2019: |
Riitta Oittinen |
| 2018: |
Rudine Sims Bishop |
| 2017: |
Margaret Mackey |
| 2016: |
Mark I. West (Acceptance Speech Video) |
| 2015: |
Judith Plotz |
| 2014: |
John Stephens |
| 2013: |
John Cech |
| 2012: |
Karen Nelson Hoyle |
| 2011: |
J. D. Stahl |
| 2010: |
Betsy Hearne |
| 2009: |
Elizabeth Keyser |
| 2008: |
Jill P. May |
| 2007: |
Ulrich Knoepflmacher |
| 2006: |
Barbara Rosen |
| 2005: |
Peter Neumeyer |
| 2004: |
Sheila Egoff |
| 2003: |
Gillian Adams |
| 2002: |
Lois Kuznets |
| 2001: |
Alethea Helbig |
| 2000: |
Jon Stott |
| 1999: |
Jack Zipes |
| 1998: |
Jean Perrot |
| 1997: |
Roderick McGillis |
| 1996: |
No award given |
| 1995: |
Roni Natov and Geraldine DeLuca |
| 1994: |
Francelia Butler |
| 1993: |
No award given |
| 1992: |
Anne Devereaux Jordan |
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