Americas Award

Overview
CLASP founded the Américas Award in 1993 to encourage and commend authors, illustrators and publishers who produce quality children’s and young adult books that portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinx cultures in the United States, and to provide teachers with recommendations for classroom use. CLASP offers up to two annual book awards, together with a commended list of titles.

Download the Américas Award Toolkit here!
Purchase award seals for your books here.

Contact the Américas Award Coordinators
Denise Woltering-Vargas, Tulane University
Colleen McCoy, Vanderbilt University

The 2022 Américas Award Winners and Honor Books have been announced!

2022 Award Winners

Child of the Flower-Song People written by Gloria Amescua and illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh (Abrams ComicArts, 2021)
My Two Border Towns written by David Bowles and illustrated by Erika Meza (Kokila, 2021)

2022 Honorable Mention Titles

Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna written by Alda P. Dobbs (Sourcebooks Young Readers, 2021)
Niños: Poems for the Lost Children of Chile written by María José Ferrada and illustrated by María Elena Valdez (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2021)
The Last Cuentista written by Donna Barba Higuera (Levine Querido, 2021)

View the full list of recognized books, including the 14 Commended Titles

Watch the 2022 Winners Announcement featuring our special young announcers!

2022 Américas Award Sponsors
The awards are administered by the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) and coordinated by both Tulane University’s Stone Center for Latin American Studies and Vanderbilt University’s Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies. Generous support is also provided by Florida International University, Stanford University, The Ohio State University, UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Florida, University of New Mexico, University of Texas at Austin, University of Utah, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.