• Source: Freeman Awards

The Freeman Book Awards are annual awards for new young adult and children's literature, that contribute meaningfully to an understanding of East and Southeast Asia.




Establishment


In 2016 the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA), the Committee on Teaching about Asia (CTA) of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), and Asia for Educators (AFE) at Columbia University announced the establishment of the annual Freeman Book Awards for new young adult and children’s literature. The awards recognize quality books for children and young adults that contribute meaningfully to an understanding of East and Southeast Asia. Awards are given in two categories: Children’s and Young Adult on the several countries of East and Southeast Asia. The awards were inaugurated in 2016. They are named for the Freeman Foundation.
The Freeman Foundation was established in 1994 through the bequest and in memory of the businessman and benefactor Mansfield Freeman, a co-founder of the international insurance and financial conglomerate American International Group, Inc., better known as AIG. It is dedicated to "augmenting international understanding between the United States and the nations of East Asia.




Winner and honorable mentions, 2021


Source:
Children’s Literature

Winner: The Floating Field, by Scott Riley, Illustrated by Nguyen Quang and Kim Lien (Millbrook Press) - no-fiction, set in Thailand
Honorable Mention: Saving Sorya Chang and the Sun Bear, by Trang Nguyen, Illustrated by Jeet Zdung (Dial Books) - fiction, set in Vietnam
Honorable Mention: The Star Festival, by Moni Ritchie Hadley, Illustrated by Mizuho Fujisawa (Albert Whitman) - fiction, set in Japan
Young Adult/Middle School Literature

Winner: Finding Junie Kim, by Ellen Oh (Harper Collins) - fiction, set in Korea and America
Honorable mention: Temple Alley Summer, By Sachiko Kashiwaba, translated by Avery Fischer Udagawa, Illustrated by Miho Satake (Yonder) - fiction, set in Japan
Honorable Mention: While I Was Away, by Waka T. Brown (Quill Tree Books) - fiction, set in Japan and America
Of Note: How Do You Live?, by Genzaburō Yoshino, translated by Bruno Navasky (Algonquin) - fiction, set in Japan
Of Note: Soul Lanterns, by Shaw Kuzki, translated by Emily Balistrieri (Delacorte Press) - fiction, set in Japan
Young Adult/High School Literature

Winner: Tsunami Girl, by Julian Sedgwick, illustrated by Chie Kutsuwada (Guppy Books) - fiction, set in Japan and America
Winner: The Waiting, by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, illustrated by Chie Kutsuwada (Drawn and Quarterly) - fiction, set in Korea
Honorable Mention: Colorful, by Eto Mori, translated by Jocelyne Allen (Counterpoint Press) - fiction, set in Japan
Honorable Mention: Freedom Swimmer, by Wai Chim (Scholastic) - , fiction, set in China
Honorable Mention: The Minamata Story, by Sean Michael Wilson, illustrated by Akiko Shimojima (Stone Bridge Press) - non-fiction, set in Japan
Of Note: The Forest of Stolen Girls, by June Hur (Feiwei & Friends) - fiction, set in Korea




Winner and honorable mentions, 2020


Source:
Children's Literature

Winner: No Steps Behind: Beate Sirota Gordon’s Battle for Women’s Rights in Japan by Jeff Gottesfeld, illus. Shiella Witanto (Creston Books) - Non-fiction, set in Japan
Honorable Mention: A Bowl of Peace: A True Story by Caren Stelson, illus. Akira Kusaka (Carolrhoda Books) - Non-fiction, set in Japan
Honorable Mention: Rice by Hongcheng Yu (Reycraft Books) - Non-fiction, set in China
Honorable Mention: The Ocean Calls: A Haenyeo Mermaid Story, by Tina Cho, illus. by Jess X. Snow (Kokila Press) - Fiction, set in Korea
Young Adult/Middle School Literature

Winner: Brother’s Keeper, by Julie Lee (Holiday House) - fiction, set in Korea
Honorable Mention: Beyond Me, by Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu (Simon & Schuster) - fiction, set in Japan
Of Note: All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team, by Christina Soontornvat (Candlewick Press) - non-fiction, set in Thailand
Young Adult/High School Literature

Winner: Crossing the Farak River, by Michelle Aung Thin (Annick Press) - fiction, set in Myanmar
Winner: Year of the Rabbit, by Tian Veasna, Translated by Helge Dascher (Drawn & Quarterly) - non-fiction, set in Cambodia
Honorable Mention: The Silence of Bones, by June Hur (Macmillan) - fiction, set in Korea
Honorable Mention: Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes, by Lun Zhang and Adrien Gombeaud, Illustrated by Ameziane (IDW Publishing) - non-fiction, set in China
Of Note: Almond, by Won-pyung Sohn, translated by Sandy Joosun Lee (Harper Collins) - fiction, set in Korea
Of Note: Like Spilled Water, by Jennie Liu (Lerner Publishing Group) -fiction, set in China
Of Note: Banned Book Club, by Kim Hyun Sook, Ryan Estrada, Illustrated by Hyung-Ju Ko (Iron Circus Comics) - non-fiction, set in Korea




Winners and honorable mentions, 2019


Source:
Children’s Literature

Winner: The Phone Booth in Mr. Hirota’s Garden by Heather Smith, illus. Rachel Wada (Orca Books) - Fiction, set in Japan
Honorable Mention: Magic Ramen: The Story of Momofuku Ando by Andrea Wang, illus. Kana Urbanowicz (Little Bee Books) - Non-fiction, set in Japan
Honorable Mention: The Moose of Ewenki by Gerelchimeg Blackcrane, illus. by Jiu Er (Greystone Books) - Fiction, set in Inner Mongolia, China
Honorable Mention: When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Uk-Bae Lee (Plough Publishing House) - Fiction, set in Korea
Young Adult/Middle School Literature

Winner: All The Ways Home by Elsie Chapman (Macmillan, Feiwel and Friends) - Fiction, set in Japan
Winner: A Place to Belong by Cynthia Kadohata, Illustrated by Julia Kuo (Simon & Schuster, Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books) - Fiction, set in Japan
Honorable Mention: Girl of the Southern Sea by Michelle Kadarusman (Pajama Press) - Fiction, set in Indonesia
Of Note: House Without Walls by Ching Yeung Russell (Simon & Schuster) - Fiction, set in Vietnam
Of Note: The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan Sherry Thomas (Lee & Low) - Fiction, set in China
Young Adult/High School Literature

Winner: The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf (Simon & Schuster, Salaam Reads) - Fiction, set in Malaysia
Winner: Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay (Penguin Young Readers, Kokila) - Fiction, set in the Philippines
Honorable Mention: Indigo Girl by Suzanne Kamata (Gemma Media) - Fiction, set in America and Japan




Winners and honorable mentions, 2018


Source:
Children’s Literature

Winner: Moth and Wasp, Soil and Ocean: Remembering Chinese Scientist Pu Zhelong’s Work for Sustainable Farming by Sigrid Schmalzer, illus. by Melanie Linden Chan (Tilbury House Nature Books) - Non fiction, set in China
Honorable Mention: The Turtle Ship by Helena Ku Rhee, illus. by Colleen Kong-Savage (Shen’s Books/Lee & Low Books) - Fiction, set in Korea
Honorable Mention: Confucius: Great Teacher of China by Demi, (Lee & Low Books) - Non fiction, set in China
Honorable Mention: Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot’s World War II Story by Marc Tyler Nobleman, illus. by Melissa Iwai (Clarion Books) - Non fiction, set in the U.S.
Of Note: My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder by Nie Jun, trans. by Edward Gauvin (Lerner Books) - Fiction, set in China
Young Adult/Middle School Literature

Winner: Grenade by Alan Gratz (Scholastic Press) - Historical fiction, set in Japan
Honorable Mention: Onibi: Diary of a Yokai Ghost Hunter by Atelier Sento, Cecile Brun, Olivier Pichard, trans. by Marie Velde (Tuttle Publishing) - Fiction, set in Japan
Honorable Mention: Shadow of the Fox by Julie Kagawa (Harlequin Teen) - Fiction, set in Japan
Honorable Mention: Too Young to Escape: A Vietnamese Girl Waits to be Reunited with Her Family by Van Ho and Marsha Skrypuch (Pajama Press) - Non fiction, set in Vietnam
Young Adult/High School Literature

Winner: Go: A Coming of Age Novel by Kazuki Kaneshiro, Translated by Takami Nieda (AmazonCrossing) - Fiction, set in Japan
Winner: The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) - Fiction, set in Taiwan
Honorable Mention: Girls on the Line by Jennie Lie (Lerner Publishing Group/Carolrhoda Lab) - Fiction, set in China
Honorable Mention: Thousand Beginnings and Endings edited by Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman (Harper Collins Publishers) - Fiction, set in East and South Asia
Of Note: The Analects: An Illustrated Edition by Confucius, Adapted and Illustrated by C.C. Tsai, trans. by Brian Bruya, With a foreword by Michael Puett (Princeton University Press) - Non fiction, set China
Of Note: The Dragon Ridge Tombs by Tianxia Bachang, trans. by Jeremy Tiang (Penguin Random House) - Fiction, set China




Winners and honorable mentions, 2017


Source:
Children's Literature

Winner: The Crane Girl by Curtis Manley, illustr. by Lin Wang (Shen’s Books) - Fiction, set in Japan
Honorable Mention: An’s Seed by Zaozao Wang, illustr. by Li Huang, tr. Helen Wang (Candied Plums; Bilingual edition) - Fiction, set in China
Honorable Mention: Chibi Samurai Wants a Pet by Sanae Ishida (Little Bigfoot) - Fiction, set in Japan
Honorable Mention: My First Book of Vietnamese Words by Tran Thi Minh Phuoc (Tuttle Publishing; Bilingual edition) - Fiction, set in Vietnam
Young Adult/Middle School Literature

Winner: Bronze and Sunflower by Cao Wenxuan, illustr. by Meilo So, tr. Helen Wang (Candlewick Press) - Fiction, set in China
Honorable Mention: Hotaka: Through My Eyes – Natural Disaster Zones by John Heffernan, edited by Lyn White (Allen & Unwin) - Fiction, set in Japan
Honorable Mention: Ten: A Soccer Story by Shamini Flint (Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) - Fiction, set in Malaysia
Honorable Mention: The Emperor’s Riddle by Kat Zhang (Simon & Schuster; Aladdin) - Fiction, set in China
Young Adult/High School Literature

Winner: The Forbidden Temptation of Baseball by Doris Jones Yang (Spark Press) - Fiction, set in Japan and the U.S.
Honorable Mention: Want by Cindy Pon (Simon & Schuster; Simon Pulse) - Fiction, set in Taiwan
Honorable Mention: Tanabata Wish by Sara Fujimura (Wishes Enterprises, LLC) - Fiction, set in Japan




Winners and honorable mentions, 2016


Source:
Children's Literature

Winner: My Night in the Planetarium by Innosanto Nagara (Seven Stories Press) - Non-Fiction, set in Indonesia
Honorable Mention: Are You an Echo? The Lost Poetry of Misuzu Kaneko by Misuzu Kaneko (Chin Music Press) - Non-Fiction, set in Japan
Young Adult/Middle School Literature

Winner: Somewhere Among by Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) - Fiction, set in Japan
Winner: The Night Parade by Kathryn Tanquary (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky) - Fiction, set in Japan
Honorable Mention: Falling into the Dragon’s Mouth by Holly Thompson (Henry Holt BYR/Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group) - Fiction, set in Japan
Young Adult/High School Literature

Winner: Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea by Sungju Lee and Susan Elizabeth McClelland (Amulet, an imprint of ABRAMS) - Non-Fiction, set in North Korea
Honorable Mention: Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story by Caren Stelson (Carolrhoda Books, a division of Lerner Publishing Group) - Non-Fiction, set in Japan




References






External links


The Freeman Foundation official website
The Freeman Awards on the National Consortium for Teaching About Asia

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