Want help selecting and sharing the best books of poetry for young people?

Want help selecting and sharing the best books of poetry for young people? Here are guides and trailers for the LBH award books.

Sunday, March 15, 2020

2020 winner: HOW TO READ A BOOK

The 2020 winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award is:

How to Read a Book written by Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Melissa Sweet, and published by HarperCollins Children’s Books. 

Honor Award
You Are Home: An Ode to the National Parks, written and illustrated by Evan Turk, published by Atheneum.

Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga, published by Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins.

2019 Winner: MARTIN RISING

The 2019 winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award is:

Martin Rising: Requiem for a King by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney (Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic).

For more information, click here.

HONOR BOOKS:

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy by Tony Medina, illustrated by 13 artists (Penny Candy Books).

The Honeybee by Kirsten Hall, illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault, (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)

Sunday, July 15, 2018

2018 Winner: ONE LAST WORD

The 2018 winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award is:

Grimes, Nikki. 2017. One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomsbury.

For more information, check out the Pennsylvania Center for the Book.




Friday, February 17, 2017

2017 Winner: SOMOS COMO LAS NUBES/WE ARE LIKE THE CLOUDS

The 2017 winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award is:

Argueta, Jorge. 2016. Somos como las nubes/We are Like the Clouds. Toronto: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press. 




Jama Rattigan features this book in a lovely post here

In addition, an honor book was selected-- Garvey's Choice by Nikki Grimes (Boyds Mills Press/Wordsong, 2016).