ALA Notable Book Award

Jane Addams Honor Award

Zolotow Honor Award

Gold Book Award

Siebert Honor Award

Sugarman Award

FNLJ award

 


 

 

 

Awards & Bibliography

 List of Awards [selected]

Bookbuilders Award (2001) for Seeker of Knowledge.

Middle East Outreach Council 2001 Book Award for the best picture book for children and young adults: Traveling Man.

Senior Cades Award, 2002

Gold Award for Calabash Cat [2004], for Max and the Dumb Flower Picture [2009], and for Rain School [2010] Oppenheim Toy Portfolio.

Charlotte Zolotow honor book for 2004 for Calabash Cat, honor book for Silent Music [2009]

Sibert Honor Award for 2005 for Sequoyah.

Peace Corps Writers Award for Best Children’s Writing for Beowulf (2008) and for Silent Music [2009]

Jane Addams Peace honor book for Sequoyah [2005] and Silent Music[ 2009].

Norman A. Sugarman Children's Bibliography Award for Sequoyah [2006]

Fundação Nacional do Libro Infantil e Juvenal, altamente recomendável, Brazil for A Chuva de Manga, 2005


Bibliography [selected]

* = handmade book.  See also manoapress.com


1974 Introduction to Chadian Arabic, James Rumford and Carol Rumford. Peace Corps: Ndjamena, Chad.

1980 Ikinyarwanda, écrit et illustré par James Rumford avec Rutaremara Louis et Robert Olson, Département d’Anglais, Université Nationale du Rwanda: Butare, Rwanda.

*1988  Eemvoora, a novel. Mānoa Press, Honolulu.

*1988  Pine and Flower, being a translation of a Ming Dynasty recipe for dying paper by ? Gao Lian, translated and illustrated by James Rumford. Mānoa Press: Honolulu.

*1988 Looking for a Sunny Place to Warm My Back: on the quality of paper, by Chen You, translated by James Rumford with an introduction. Mānoa Press, Honolulu.

*1990 The Summer My Son Was Seven Going on Eight, written and illustrated by James Rumford. Mānoa Press, Honolulu.

*1991 Out of the Mountains, being an excerpt from his book [1822] entitled A Thorough Inspection of the Frontier Defenses of Three Provinces, by Yan Ruyi, translated by James Rumford with an introduction. Mānoa Press, Honolulu. 

*1992 Ka Wai a Kāne. Manoa Press, Honolulu.

*1993  A Short Elementary Grammar of the Owhihe Language Attributed to Henry Obookiah. Mānoa Press, Honolulu.

*1993  The Hawaiian Language, being part  of the knowledge gathered by the missionaries concerning the language, as copied in the year 1823 by Mercy partridge Whitney, illustrated by James Rumford. Mānoa Press: Honolulu.

*1993  Chu Shu, an essay on paper, observation made by Wang Zongmu at the Imperial Paper Mill at Jade Mountain, illustrated by James Rumford. Mānoa Press: Honolulu.

*1994  Five Photogravures of Henan, photographs by Carol Rumford, poems by James Rumford. Mānoa Press: Honolulu.

*1994  E o mai oe i kou inoa la. Mānoa Press: Honolulu.

*1995  Ninety-four Proverbial Expressions and Select Sentences, by Samuel Whitney with illustrations and commentary by James Rumford. Mission Houses Museum and Mānoa Press: Honolulu.

1996  The Cloudmakers, written and illustrated by James Rumford. Houghton Mifflin: Boston.

*1996  Wu Wei-yun, Cloudmaker; a translation of a page from the T’ang Ch’i Shou, strange stories from the T’ang Dynasty by Lin Chien-min (James Rumford). Manoa Press: Honolulu.

1998  The Island-below-the-Star, written and illustrated by James Rumford. Houghton Mifflin: Boston.

1998  Ka ‘Āina-ma-lalo-o-ka-Hōkū, na James Rumford i kēkau i ka ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i. Houghton Mifflin: Boston.

1998 When Silver Needles Swam, the story of tutu’s quilt / Ka Ihe o Tūtū, written in English and Hawaiian and illustrated by James Rumford. Mānoa Press, Honolulu.

*1999 Ke Kanaka Molimoli or the Tattooed Man, written and illustrated by Kahua Kealeauakea (James Rumford). Mānoa Press, Honolulu.

2000 Seeker of Knowledge, the man who deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs, written and illustrated by James Rumford. Houghton Mifflin: Boston.

*2000 The Whalebone Articles, written and illustrated by Anthony Smallfield (James Rumford). Mānoa Press: Honolulu.

2001 Traveling Man, the journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354, written and illustrated by James Rumford.  Houghton Mifflin: Boston.

2001 Kahalaopuna, the beauty of Mānoa, written and illustrated by James Rumford. Mānoa Press: Honolulu.

2001 Kahalaopuna, ka u‘i o Manoa, na James Rumford i ha‘i hou a pena ki‘i. Mānoa Press: Honolulu.

2002 Champollion, l’homme qui déchiffra les hiéroglyphes égyptiens, écrit en français et illustré par James Rumford. Archimède, L’Ecole des Loisirs: Paris.

2002 There’s a Monster in the Alphabet, written and illustrated by James Rumford. Houghton Mifflin: Boston.

2002 “Louis Braille, opening the doors of knowledge,” written and illustrated by James Rumford.  Ask, vol. 1, no. 4: Chicago.

2003 Nine Animals and the Well, written and illustrated by James Rumford. Houghton Mifflin: Boston.

2003 Calabash Cat and His Amazing Journey, written and illustrated by James Rumford. Houghton Mifflin: Boston.

2004 “Louis Pasteur: bold steps,” written and illustrated by James Rumford. Ask, vol. 3, no. 1: Chicago.

2004  Dog-of-the-Sea-Waves, written in English and Hawaiian and illustrated by James Rumford. Houghton Mifflin: Boston.

2004  Sequoyah, the Cherokee Man Who Gave his People Writing, written and illustrated by James Rumford, and translated into Cherokee by Anna Sixkiller Huckaby. Houghton Mifflin: Boston.

2004 “The Gift from the Past” written and illustrated by James Rumford. Ask, vol. 3, no. 7: Chicago.

2005 A Chuva da Manga, escrito em português e ilustrado por J. Rumford. BrinqueBook: Sao Paulo, Brasil.

2007 Beowulf, A Retelling, written and illustrated by James Rumford. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.

2007 Don’t Touch My Hat! written and illustrated by James Rumford. Knopf, New York.

2008 Silent Music, A Story of Baghdad, written and illustrated by James Rumford. Roaring Brook Press, New York.

2008 Chee-Lin, A Giraffe’s Journey, written and illustrated by James Rumford. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.

2009 Max and the Dumb Flower Picture, written by Martha Alexander with James Rumford. Charlesbridge, Boston.

2009 Tiger and Turtle, written and illustrated by James Rumford. Roaring Brook Press, New York.

2010 Rain School, written and illustrated by James Rumford. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.

2012  From the Good Mountain, How Gutenberg Changed the World, written, illustrated and illuminated by James Rumford. Roaring Brook Press, New York.

2012 A Escola de Chuva, por James Rumford. BrinqueBooks, São Paulo, Brazil.

2012 Beo-Bunny, written and illustrated by Iacobus Rumeforde [James Rumford]. Manoa Press, Honolulu.

2012 From the Good Mountain, a companion guide for Adults and Children: how books were made in the fifteenth century, written and illustrated by James Rumford. Manoa Press, Honolulu.

2013 Carpe Diem, Horace De-Poetized, written by Horace with commentary by James Rumford. Manoa Press, Honolulu.

2014 The Black Orchid Code, written and illustrated by James Rumford. Manoa Press, Honolulu.

2016 Bright Star, the story of an African king, written and illustrated by James Rumford. Manoa Press, Honolulu.

2016 Accidit ad Pontem Rivo Strige, written by Ambrose Bierce, translated into Latin and illustrated by James Rumford. Manoa Press, Honolulu.

2016 Island below the Star, written and illustrated by James Rumford. Manoa Press, Honolulu.

2016 Ka ‘Āina ma lalo o ka Hōkū, written and illustrated by James Rumford. Manoa Press, Honolulu.

2016 Margaret, Cat Magnet, written and illustrated by James Rumford. Manoa Press, Honolulu.

 

 

 

 


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