NAACP Image Awards Winners and Nominees

NAACP Image Award LogoIn 2023, the NAACP celebrates the 54th anniversary of Image Awards. There are 5 titles nominated in eight literature categories; Biography/Autobiography, Children, Debut Author, Fiction, Instructional, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Youth/Teens

You my print a list of all the award winning and nominated books. Learn more at the NAACP Image Awards website.


8 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2010

Winner - Biography/Autobiography

Michelle Obama: The First Lady In Photographs
by Deborah Willis and Emily Bernard

Publication Date: Nov 04, 2009
List Price: $26.95
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780393077476
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Parent Company: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

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Winner - Children

Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration Of Rosa, Barack, And The Pioneers Of Change
by Michelle Cook, Illustrated by Shadra Strickland

Publication Date: Jan 03, 2012
List Price: $8.99
Format: Paperback, 32 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
Target Age Group: Picture Book
ISBN13: 9781599907833
Imprint: Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Parent Company: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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Winner - Debut Author

A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison
by Reginald Dwayne Betts

Publication Date: May 04, 2010
List Price: $17.00
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781583333969
Imprint: Avery
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann

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Winner - Fiction

The Long Fall: The First Leonid McGill Mystery
by Walter Mosley

Publication Date: Feb 02, 2010
List Price: $14.00
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780451230256
Imprint: NAL
Publisher: NAL
Parent Company: NAL

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Winner - Instructional

Winner - Nonfiction

In Search Of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Publication Date: Jan 27, 2009
List Price: $27.50
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780307382405
Imprint: Crown
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann

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Winner - Poetry

Bicycles: Love Poems
by Nikki Giovanni

Publication Date: Feb 02, 2010
List Price: $11.99
Format: Paperback, 128 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9780061726491
Imprint: Amistad
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp

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Winner - Youth/Teens

Michelle Obama: Meet The First Lady
by David Bergen Brophy

Publication Date: Jan 06, 2009
List Price: $16.99
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
ISBN13: 9780061779916
Imprint: Amistad
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp

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