Alphabetical list of all authors (blue) and artists (green) who received one or more Pura Belpré Medal or Honor (or both.) Names are hyperlinked to their websites, when available.
- 2019 Author – Medal: The Poet X
- 2000 Author – Medal: Under the Royal Palms: A Childhood in Cuba
*Agosín, Marjorie (1955-2025)
- 2015 Author – Medal: I Lived on Butterfly Hill
*Alarcón, Francisco X. (1954-2016)
- 1998 Author – Honor: Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring Poems
- 2000 Author – Honor: From the Bellybutton of the Moon and other Summer Poems
- 2002 Author – Honor: Iguanas in the Snow
- 2004 Author – Medal: Before We Were Free
- 2010 Author – Medal: Return to Sender
- 2022 Author – Honor: Child of the Flower Song People
*Ancona, George (1929-2021)
- 1996 Illustrator – Honor: Pablo Remembers: The Fiesta of the Day of the Dead
- 2000 Illustrator – Honor: Barrio: José’s Neighborhood
- 2011 Author – Honor: Olé! Flamenco
Aponte, Carlos
- 2020 Illustrator – Honor: Beyond the Bay
- 2024 Author – Honor: Something Like Home
- 2020 Author – Honor: The Other Side of Happy
- 2018 Author – Medal: Lucky Broken Girl
- 2006 Author – Honor: César, ¡Sí, Se Puede!
- 2008 Author – Honor: Frida, ¡Viva la Vida!
- 2010 Author – Honor: Diego, Bigger than Life
- 2023 Author – Honor: The Notebook Keeper: A Story of Kindness from the Border
- 2019 Author – Honor: They Call me Güero
- 2024 Young Adults – Honor: The Prince and the Coyote
Canales, Viola
- 2006 Author – Medal: The Tequila Worm
Carling, Amelia Lau
- 2000 Illustrator – Honor: Mama & Papa Have a Store
- 2018 Author – Honor: The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora
- 2004 Illustrator – Honor: First Day in Grapes
Castro, Antonio
- 2016 Illustrator – Honor: My Tata’s Remedies
- 2002 Illustrator – Honor: Juan Bobo Goes to Work
- 2020 Author – Honor: Lety Out Loud
- 2021 Illustrator – Honor: Sharuko: El Arquéologo Peruano/The Peruvian Archeologist
- 2021 Author – Medal: Efrén Divided
*Cofer, Judith Ortiz (1952-2016)
- 1996 Author – Medal: An Island Like You: Stories from the Barrio
- 2006 Illustrator – Medal: Doña Flor: A Tall Tale About a Giant Woman with a Big, Great Heart
- 2008 Illustrator – Honor: My Name is Gabito: The Life of Gabriel García Márquez
- 2009 Illustrator – Honor: What Can You Do With a Rebozo?
- 2011 Illustrator – Honor: Fiesta Babies
- 2021 Author – Honor: The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez
Dávalos, Felipe
- 2000 Illustrator – Honor: The Secret Stars
- 2014 Author – Honor: The Living
- 2008 Author – Honor: Martina the Beautiful Cockroach
- 1996 Illustrator – Honor: The Bossy Gallito/El Gallo de Bodas: A Traditional Cuban Folk Tale
- 2006 Illustrator – Honor: Arrorró mi Niño: Latino Lullabies
- 2009 Illustrator – Honor: The Storyteller’s Candle / La Velita de los Cuentos
- 2020 Author – Honor: Planting Stories: The Life of Pura Belpré
- 2017 Author – Honor: The Only Road
Díaz, David
- 2004 Illustrator – Honor: The Pot that Juan Built
- 2006 Illustrator – Honor: César ¡Sí, Se Puede!
- 2010 Illustrator – Honor: Diego, Bigger than Life
- 2011 Illustrator – Honor: Me, Frida
- 2013 Illustrator – Medal: Martin de Porres: The Rose in the Desert
- 2022 Author – Honor: Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna
- 2014 Illustrator – Honor: Mary Had a Little Llama
- 2016 Illustrator – Honor: Mango, Abuela, and Me
- 2008 Author – Medal: The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano
- 2009 Author – Medal: The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom
- 2011 Author – Honor: The Firefly Letters
- 2012 Author – Honor: Hurricane Dancers
- 2014 Author- Honor: The Lightning Dreamer
- 2016 Author – Medal: Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings, A Memoir
- 2025 Young Adults – Honor: Wild Dreamers
- 2022 Illustrator – Honor: Boogie, Boogie, Y’All!
- 2019 Illustrator – Honor: Islandborn
- 2023 Illustrator – Honor: Srta. Quinces
- 2011 Author – Honor: 90 Miles to Havana
- 2018 Illustrator – Honor: All Around Us
- 2023 Illustrator – Medal: Where Wonder Grows
- 2024 Illustrator – Honor: Remembering
Garcia, Stephanie
- 1998 Illustrator – Medal: Snapshots from the Wedding
- 2025 Illustrator – Honor: Abuelo, the Sea, and Me
- 1996 Illustrator – Honor: Family Portraits/Cuadros de Familia
- 1998 Illustrator – Honor: In my Family/En mi Familia
- 2000 Illustrator – Medal: Magic Windows
Garza, Xavier
- 2012 Author – Honor: Maximilian and the Mystery of the Guardian Angel
- 2022 Young Adults – Medal: How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe
- 2023 Young Adults – Honor: High Spirits
- 2023 Author – Honor: The Coquíes Still Sing
González, Lucía M.
- 1996 Author – Honor: The Bossy Gallito/El Gallito Mandón
- 2009 Author – Honor: The Storyteller’s Candle/La Velita de los Cuentos
- 2008 Illustrator – Honor: My Colors, My World
González, Raúl (see Raúl the Third)
- 1996 Illustrator – Medal: Chato’s Kitchen
- 2002 Illustrator – Medal: Chato and the Party Animals
- 2015 Illustrator – Honor: Little Roja Riding Hood
- 2025 Author – Honor: Cruzita and the Mariacheros
Gutierrez, Rudy
- 2009 Illustrator – Honor: Papá and Me
- 2020 Author – Medal: Sal and Gabi Break the Universe
- 2000 Author – Honor: Laughing Out Loud, I Fly: Poems in English and Spanish
- 2015 Author – Honor: Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes
- 2021 Author – Honor: Lupe Wong Won’t Dance
- 2022 Author – Medal: The Last Cuentista
- 2024 Author – Honor: Alebrijes
- 2025 Young Adults – Medal: Shut Up, This is Serious
- 2002 Author – Honor: Breaking Through
- 2009 Author – Honor: Reaching Out
- 2022 Young Adults – Honor: Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet
- 2024 Illustrator – Honor: Papa’s Magical Water-Jug Clock
- 2010 Author – Honor: Federico García Lorca
- 2024 Author – Honor: Benita y las Criaturas Nocturnas
- 2006 Illustrator – Honor: My Name is Celia: The Life of Celia Cruz/Me Llamo Celia: La Vida de Celia Cruz
- 2010 Illustrator – Medal: Book Fiesta! Celebrate Children’s Day/Books Day
- 2012 Illustrator – Honor: The Cazuela that the Farm Maiden Stirred
- 2014 Illustrator – Honor: Tito Puente, Mambo King
- 2016 Illustrator – Medal: Drum Dream Girl
- 2020 Illustrator – Medal: Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln
- 2022 Illustrator – Honor: May Your Life be Deliciosa
- 2023 Illustrator – Honor: Phenomenal AOC: The Roots and Rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- 2013 Author – Honor: The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano
- 2024 Author – Medal: Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir
- 2024 Illustrator – Medal: Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir
Martínez, Floyd
- 1998 Author – Honor: Spirits of the High Mesa
*Martínez, Victor – (1954-2011)
- 1998 Author – Medal: Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida
- 2018 Illustrator – Medal: La Princesa and the Pea
- 2012 Author- Medal: Under the Mesquite
- 2017 Author – Medal: Juana & Lucas
- 2025 Author – Honor: A Maleta Full of Treasures
- 2014 Author – Medal: Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick your Ass
- 2016 Author – Honor: Mango, Abuela, and Me
- 2024 Author – Honor: Aniana del Mar Jumps In
- 2021 Young Adults – Medal: Furia
- 2022 Young Adults – Honor: Where I Belong
*Montes, Marisa (1951-2011)
- 2008 Author – Honor: Los Gatos Black on Halloween
- 2023 Illustrator – Honor: Still Dreaming / Seguimos Soñando
- 2006 Author – Honor: Doña Flor, A Tall Tale About a Giant Woman with a Big Great Heart
- 2004 Illustrator – Medal: Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book
- 2004 Illustrator – Honor: Harvesting Hope: The Story of César Chavez
- 2008 Illustrator – Medal: Los Gatos Black on Halloween
- 2009 Author – Honor: Just in Case: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet
- 2009 Illustrator – Medal: Just in Case: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet
- 2010 Illustrator – Honor: My Abuelita
- 2014 Illustrator – Medal: Niño Wrestles the World
- 2015 Illustrator – Medal: Viva Frida
- 2019 Illustrator – Medal: Dreamers
- 2022 Illustrator – Honor: Bright Star
- 2023 Author – Medal: Frizzy
- 2023 Illustrator – Honor: Magic: Once Upon a Faraway Land
- 2004 Author – Honor: Cuba 15
- 2012 Illustrator – Honor: Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match/Marisol McDonald No Combina
- 2010 Illustrator – Honor: Gracias, Thanks
- 2015 Illustrator – Honor: Green as a Chile Pepper
- 2018 Illustrator – Honor: Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos
Peña, Matt de la (see “de la Peña” in D)
- 2020 Illustrator – Honor: My Papi Has a Motorcycle
- 2004 Author – Honor: My Diary From Here to There
- 2018 Author – Honor: The First Rule of Punk
- 2023 Author – Honor: Tumble
- 2022 Author – Honor: De Aquí Como el Coquí
- 2022 Illustrator – Honor: De Aquí Como el Coquí
- 2023 Illustrator – Honor: The Coquíes Still Sing
- 2024 Illustrator – Honor: Mi Papá Es Un Agrícola / My Father, the Farmworker
- 2023 Young Adults – Honor: The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School
- 2021 Young Adults – Honor: Never Look Back
- 2002 Author – Medal: Esperanza Rising
- 2006 Author – Honor: Becoming Naomi León
- 2011 Author – Medal: The Dreamer
- 2013 Author – Medal: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
- 2025 Author – Honor: Ultraviolet
Sánchez, Enrique O.
- 1998 Illustrator – Honor: The Golden Flower: A Taíno Myth from Puerto Rico
- 2021 Young Adults – Honor: We Are Not From Here
- 1998 Illustrator – Honor: Gathering the Sun: An Alphabet in Spanish and English
- 1996 Author – Honor: Baseball in April and Other Stories
- 2023 Young Adult – Honor: Breathe and Count Back from Ten
Third, Raúl the (Raúl González)
- 2017 Illustrator – Medal: Lowriders to the Center of the Earth
- 2020 Illustrator – Honor: ¡Vamos! Let’s go to the Market!
- 2021 Illustrator – Medal: ¡Vamos! Let’s Go Eat!
- 2022 Illustrator – Medal: ¡Vamos! Let’s Cross the Bridge!
- 2023 Young Adults – Medal: Burn Down, Rise Up
- 2011 Illustrator – Honor: Dear Primo: A Letter to my Cousin
- 2012 Illustrator – Medal: Diego Rivera: His World and Ours
- 2014 Author – Honor: Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote
- 2014 Illustrator – Honor: Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote
- 2015 Illustrator – Honor: Separate is Never Equal
- 2016 Illustrator – Honor: Funny Bones: Posada and his Day of the Dead
- 2017 Illustrator – Honor: Esquivel! Space-Age Sound Artist
- 2017 Illustrator – Honor: The Princess and the Warrior
- 2020 Author – Honor: Soldier for Equality
- 2023 Illustrator – Honor: A Land of Books: Dreams of Young Mexihcah Word Painters
- 2024 Author – Honor: Papá’s Magical Water-Jug Clock
- 2025 Author – Medal: Lola
- 2011 Illustrator – Medal: Grandma’s Gift
- 2025 Illustrator – Medal: The Dream Catcher
- 2022 Young Adults – Honor: Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun
- 2025 Young Adults – Honor: Libertad
*Deceased author/illustrator.
- Names in blue: Recognized for text (authors).
- Names in green : Recognized for illustrations.
- Names in black: Recognized in both categories (as authors and illustrators).
Note to authors and publishers: If you find an error or discrepancy in these lists, please contact me.
Alicia K. Long, PhD, MLIS 