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)