Author record · 2006 to 2023

R. Gregory Christie: Awards and Best-of Lists

R. Gregory Christie has won 2 awards, including the Schneider Family Book Award (2007) for The Deaf Musicians, with 7 shortlist or finalist places in our archive.

Also credited with Carole Boston Weatherford, Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, Alice Faye Duncan, Lisa Wheeler, Mara Rockliff, Mary Williams, Paul DuBois Jacobs, Pete Seeger

Every recognition

Year is the award or list year, not the publication year.
YearBookSourceResultTranslator
2023Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus BoycottRobert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal source (opens in a new tab)Honor · Informational Book
2019Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968Coretta Scott King Book Awards source (opens in a new tab)Honor · Illustrator
2017Freedom in Congo SquareCoretta Scott King Book Awards source (opens in a new tab)Honor · Illustrator
2017Freedom in Congo SquareRandolph Caldecott Medal source (opens in a new tab)Honor · Picture Book
2016The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest BookstoreCoretta Scott King Book Awards source (opens in a new tab)Honor · Illustrator
2012No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem BooksellerBoston Globe–Horn Book Awards source (opens in a new tab)Winner · Fiction and Poetry
2008Jazz BabyTheodor Seuss Geisel Award source (opens in a new tab)Honor · Beginning Reader
2007The Deaf MusiciansSchneider Family Book Award source (opens in a new tab)Winner · Younger Children
2006Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of SudanCoretta Scott King Book Awards source (opens in a new tab)Honor · Illustrator

Books

  1. Freedom in Congo Square2 sources · 2017
  2. Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan1 source · 2006
  3. Jazz Baby1 source · 2008
  4. Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 19681 source · 2019
  5. No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller1 source · 2012
  6. Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott1 source · 2023
  7. The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore1 source · 2016
  8. The Deaf Musicians1 source · 2007