2015 Winner: THE CROSSOVER

The 2015 winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award is:


Alexander, Kwame. 2014. The Crossover. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 


Click HERE for a readers' guide for The Crossover.

2014 Winner: ETCHED IN CLAY

This is the 2013 winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award:

Cheng, Andrea. 2013. Etched in Clay: The Life of Dave, Enslaved Potter and Poet. New York: Lee & Low Books.

2013 Winner: WATER SINGS BLUE

This is the 2012 winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award:


Coombs, Kate. 2012. Water Sings Blue: Ocean Poems. Ill. by Meilo So. San Francisco: Chronicle.

2012 Winner: WON TON: A CAT TALE TOLD IN HAIKU

This is the 2012 winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award:

Wardlaw, Lee. 2011. Won Ton; A Cat Tale Told in Haiku. Ill. by Eugene Yelchin. Henry Holt.

Thanks also, Lee, for sharing the link to your Teacher's Guide found here.

Here is a Digital Trailer for WON TON created by graduate student Karey Pustejovsky.