Childrens Poetry Award Winners

Claudia Lewis Award

(2011). Girl reading a book while laying on the floor. [Web Graphic]. Retrieved from http://www.bookclipart.com/free_book_clipar t/girl_reading_a_book_while _laying_on_the_floor_05151002-0104-0834.html

awarded to the best poetry book of the year for young readers by the Bank Street College in New York first awarded in 1998

2011- Guyku: A Year of Haiku for Boys o by Bob Raczka o illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds 2010- Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors o by Joyce Sidman o illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski 2009- The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cubas Struggle for Freedom o by Marguerite Engle 2008- Heres a Little Poem: A Very First Book of Poetry o collected by Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters o illustrated by Polly Dunbar 2008- This is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness o by Joyce Sidman o illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski 2007- no award given 2006- A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms o selected by Paul B. Janeczko o illustrated by Chris Raschka 2005- Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices o by Walter Dean Myers

2005- Hummingbird Nest: A Journal of Poems o by Kristine OConnell George o illustrated by Barry Moser 2004- The Way a Door Closes o by Hope Anita Smith o illustrated by Shane W. Evans 2004- Yesterday I Had the Blues o by Jeron Ashford Frame o illustrated by R. Gregory Christie 2003- Little Dog and Duncan o by Kristine OConnell George o illustrated by June Otani 2002- Love That Dog o by Sharon Creech 2001- Mammalabilia o by Douglas Florian 2000- Stop Pretending o by Sonya Sones 1999- I, Too, Sing America o by Catherine Clinton 1998- The Invisible Ladder: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poems for Young Readers o edited by Liz Rosenberg

Kay Holton & Victoria Windsor LIS 60629, Spring 2011