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.
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).
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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)
