The 2025 Américas Award Winners, Honor Books, and Commended Titles have been announced!
Watch the 2025 Winners Announcement featuring our special young announcers!
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About the Award:
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.
2025 Award Winners:
- Libertad written and illustrated by Bessie Flores Zaldívar. Dial Books (Penguin Random House), 2024.
- Daughter of the Light-Footed People: The Story of Indigenous Marathon Champion Lorena Ramírez written by Belen Medina and illustrated by Natalia Rojas Castro. Atheneum Books for Young Readers (Simon & Schuster), 2024.
2025 Honor Books
- Canto Contigo written by Jonny Garza VillaWednesday Books (Macmillan Publishers), 2024.
- Churro Stand/El Carrito de Churros written by Karina N. González and illustrated by Krystal Quiles. Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2024.
- Freedom Braids written by Monique Duncan and illustrated by Oboh Moses. Lantana Publishing, 2024
- When the Mapou Sings written by Nadine Pinede. Candlewick Press, 2024.
Check out the full list of commended titles here.
More information on the Américas Award can be found here.
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 the University of Arizona’s Center for Latin American Studies. Generous support is also provided by UC Berkeley CLACS, as well as Florida International University, Michigan State University, Stanford University,University of California, Los Angeles, UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Florida, University of Michigan, University of New Mexico, University of Texas at Austin, University of Utah, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Vanderbilt University.