Also see the Caldecott Medal and the Newbery Medal winnners.
| 2005 Coretta Scott King Awards, honoring black authors and illustrators: | (author): |
| Remember: The Journey to School Integration, Toni Morrison (Houghton Mifflin) |
| (illustrator): |
| Ellington Was Not a Street, Kadir A. Nelson (Simon & Schuster) |
| (John Steptoe new talent author): |
| Missy Violet and Me, Barbara Hathaway (Houghton Mifflin) |
| (John Steptoe new talent illustrator): |
| Jazzy Miz Mozetta, Frank Morrison (Farrar Straus Giroux) |
| 2005 Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature for young adults: | how i live now, Meg Rosoff (Random House) |
| 2005 Robert F. Sibert Award for informational book: | The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights, Russell Freedman (Clarion Books) |
| 2005 Andrew Carnegie Medal, for best children's video: | The Dot, based on the book written by Peter H. Reynolds, produced by Paul R. Gagne and Melissa Reilly of Weston Woods Studios |
| 2005 Mildred L. Batchelder Award, for best book originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country: | The Shadows of Ghadames, written by Joëlle Stolz in French and translated by Catherine Temerson (Delacorte Press/Random House) |
| 2005 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award: | Russell Freedman |
| Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for lasting contributions to children's literature: | Laurence Yep |
