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).

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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)

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.

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).