The CDA Book Award Committee, chaired by Past President General Audrey Svensson, has announced the winners of the 2016 awards. Author Judge Diane Kiesel will be present to receive the award and speak about the winning book, She Can Bring Us Home: Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Civil Rights Pioneer, at the 126th Annual Meeting and luncheon, held in New York on May 2, 2016.

• Award:
  SHE CAN BRING US HOME: Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Civil Rights Pioneer
  Author: Diane Kiesel
  Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press
• Citation:
  THE GHOST ARMY OF WORLD WAR II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects and Other Audacious Fakery
  Authors: Rick Beyer and Elizabeth Sayles
  Princeton Architectural Press
• Youth Award:
  THE NUTCRACKER COMES TO AMERICA: How Three Ballet-Loving Brothers Created a Holiday Institution
  Author: Chris Barton
  Illustrated by Cathy Gendron
  Millbrook Press, A Division of Learner Publishing Group