Lion and Unicorn Poetry Award Teaching Toolbox: February 2013

Sunday, February 24, 2013

2012 WINNER: Roots and Blues

This is the winner of the Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry in 2012:

Adoff, Arnold. 2010. Roots and Blues, A Celebration. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Sunday, February 3, 2013

2012 HONOR BOOK: Winterberries and Apple Blossoms

This is an honor book for the Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry in 2011:

Nan Forler. 2011. Winterberries and Apple Blossoms: Reflections and Flavors of a Mennonite Year. Ill. by Peter Etril Snyder. Ontario: Tundra Books.

Saturday, February 2, 2013

2012 HONOR BOOK: Requiem

This is an honor book for the Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry in 2012:

Paul B. Janeczko. 2011. Requiem: Poems of the Terezín Ghetto. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick.

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About the award

The Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry focuses on North American poetry for young people and carries on the prior tradition begun by the British journal, Signal, to “instigate, provoke, and sustain a conversation about poetry published for children.” Recipients are now from both the U.S. and Canada. In addition, the Lion and the Unicorn Award includes an essay which discusses the award winners as well as speculates on issues unique to writing and publishing poetry for children, “painting a picture of that year in children’s poetry.” You can generally find those thought-provoking essays in Project Muse, a digital resource of journals in the humanities and social sciences.

Lion and Unicorn Poetry Award and Honor Books

2016 WINNERS

Brown, Calef. 2015. Hypnotize a Tiger. Poems About Just About Everything. New York: Henry Holt.

Nelson, Marilyn. 2015. My Seneca Village. namelos.

2015 WINNERS

Nelson, Marilyn. 2014. How I Discovered Poetry. Illustrated by Hadley Hooper. New York: Penguin.

Snicket, Lemony. 2014. 29 Myths on the Swinster Pharmacy. Illustrated by Lisa Brown. McSweeney's McMullins.

2014 WINNERS

Dana Teen Lomax, ed. 2013. Kindergarde: Avant-Garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children. Illus. Cliff Hengst. Lafayette: Black Radish.

JonArno Lawson. 2013. Enjoy It While It Hurts. Illus. JonArno Lawson. Hamilton, Ontario: Wolsak.

2013 WINNER

Lawson, Jon Arno. 2012. Down in the Bottom of the Bottom of the Box. Illustrated by Alec Dempster. Ontario: The Porcupine's Quill.

2012 WINNER

Adoff, Arnold. 2010. Roots and Blues: A Celebration. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

2012 HONOR BOOKS

Nan Forler. Winterberries and Apple Blossoms: Reflections and Flavors of a Mennonite Year. Ill. by Peter Etril Snyder. Ontario: Tundra Books, 2011.

Paul B. Janeczko. Requiem: Poems of the Terezín Ghetto. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 2011.

WINNER

Susan Blackaby. Nest, Nook & Cranny. Ill. by Jamie Hogan. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge, 2010.

2011 HONOR BOOKS

Rob Jackson. Weekend Mischief. Ill. by Mark Beech. Honesdale, PA: Wordsong/Boyds Mills Press, 2010.

X.J. Kennedy. City Kids: Street & Skyscraper Rhymes. Ill. by Philippe Béha. Vancouver: Tradewind Books, 2010.

2010

No award given

2009 WINNER

JonArno Lawson. A Voweller’s Bestiary, from Aardvark to Guineafowl (and H). Erin, Ontario: Porcupine’s Quill, 2008.

2009 HONOR BOOKS

Helen Frost. Diamond Willow. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008.

William H. New. The Year I Was Grounded. Vancouver: Tradewind Books, 2008.

2008 WINNER

Linda Sue Park. Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo (Poems). Ill. by Istvan Banyai. New York: Clarion, 2007.

2008 HONOR BOOKS

Jay M. Harris. The Moon Is La Luna: Silly Rhymes in English & Spanish. Ill. by Matthew Cordell. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

Carole Boston Weatherford. Birmingham, 1963. Honesdale, PA: Wordsong/Boyds Mills Press, 2007.

2007 WINNER

JonArno Lawson. Black Stars in a White Night Sky. Ill. by Sherwin Tjia. Toronto: Pedlar Press, 2006.

2007 HONOR BOOKS

Jorge Argueta. Talking with Mother Earth/Hablando con Madre Tierra. Ill. by Lucía Angela Pérez. Toronto: Groundwood/House of Anansi, 2006.

Helen Frost. The Braid. New York: Frances Foster/Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2006.

Walter Dean Myers. Jazz. Ill. by Christopher Myers. New York: Holiday House, 2006.

Walter Dean Myers. Street Love. New York: Amistad/HarperTempest, 2006.

2006 WINNER

Wynton Marsalis. Jazz A·B·Z: An A to Z Collection of Jazz Portraits. Ill. by Paul Rogers. Somerville, MA: Candlewick, 2005.

2006 HONOR BOOKS

Marilyn Nelson. A Wreath for Emmett Till. Ill. by Philippe Lardy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

Naomi Shihab Nye. A Maze Me: Poems for Girls. Ill. by Terre Maher. New York: Greenwillow, 2005.

Shel Silverstein. Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook. New York: HarperCollins, 2005.

2005 WINNER

Marilyn Nelson. Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem. Asheville, NC: Front Street Books, 2004.

2005 HONOR BOOKS

Helen Frost. Spinning Through the Universe: A Novel in Poems from Room 214. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004.

JonArno Lawson. The Man in the Moon-Fixer’s Mask. Toronto: Pedlar Press, 2004.

Walter Dean Myers. Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices. New York: Holiday House, 2004.

Allan Wolf. New Found Land: Lewis and Clark’s Voyage of Discovery. Somerville, MA: Candlewick, 2004.

Here are free resources for sharing award winning poetry books with young people.