2016 WINNERS: Hypnotize a Tiger AND My Seneca Village

These are the two winners of the Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry in 2016:

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

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

 

2015 HONOR BOOKS: How I Discovered Poetry AND 29 Myths on the Swinster Pharmacy

Two honor books were chosen this year (and no winner) for the Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry in 2015.

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: Kindergarde AND Enjoy It While It Hurts

These are the TWO winners of the Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry in 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.

 

Honor Books:

Robert Priest. 2013. Rosa Rose and Other Poems. Illus. Joan Krygsman. Hamilton, Ontario: Wolsak.

Maurice Sendak. 2013. My Brother’s Book. Illus. Maurice Sendak. New York: HarperCollins.

 

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2013 WINNER: Down in the Bottom of the Bottom of the Box

This is the winner of the Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry in 2013:







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: 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.

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.

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.