Claudia Lewis Award for Poetry, 1998-2025
Resources for the titles recognized by this award since its inception in 1998 -- honors the best poetry book of the year
From Bank Street College of Education Center for Children's Literature
- 657 Resources including
- 63 Videos
- 27 Book Readings
- 65 Lesson Plans
- List Analysis Report
Showing 1-33 of 33 book results
I Am Every Good Thing
by Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James
(Younger Readers Winner, 2021)
45+ Resources15 Awards
Black Girl You Are Atlas
by Renée Watson and Ekua Holmes
(Older Readers Winner, 2025)
40+ Resources16 Awards
Kin: Rooted in Hope
by Carole Boston Weatherford and Jeffery Boston Weatherford
(Older Readers Winner, 2024)
30+ Resources6 Awards
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
by Nikki Grimes
(Winner, 2018)
30+ Resources11 Awards
Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors
by Joyce Sidman and Pamela Zagarenski
(Winner, 2010)
25+ Resources6 Awards
Guyku: A Year of Haiku for Boys
by Bob Raczka and Peter H. Reynolds
(Winner, 2011)
25+ Resources4 Awards
Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold
by Joyce Sidman and Rick Allen
(Younger Readers Winner, 2015)
25+ Resources10 Awards
A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms
by Paul B. Janeczko and Chris Raschka
(Winner, 2006)
25+ Resources6 Awards
Here's a Little Poem: A Very First Book of Poetry
by Jane Yolen, Andrew Fusek Peters, and Polly Dunbar
(Winner, 2008)
25+ Resources3 Awards
Book of Animal Poetry: 200 Poems with Photographs That Squeak, Soar, and Roar!
(Winner, 2013)
20+ Resources4 Awards
When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons
by Julie Fogliano and Julie Morstad
(Winner, 2017)
20+ Resources8 Awards
The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic
by Allan Wolf
(Older Readers Winner, 2012)
15+ Resources4 Awards
What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms & Blessings
by Joyce Sidman and Pamela Zagarenski
(Winner, 2014)
15+ Resources3 Awards
Emma Dilemma: Big Sister Poems
by Kristine O'Connell George and Nancy Carpenter
(Younger Readers Winner, 2012)
15+ Resources5 Awards
You Don't Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves
(Winner, 2022)
15+ Resources2 Awards
Yesterday I Had the Blues
by Jeron Ashford Frame and R. Gregory Christie
(Honor, 2004)
15+ Resources3 Awards
Little Dog and Duncan
by Kristine O'Connell George and June Otani
(Winner, 2003)
15+ Resources2 Awards
The Smell of Wet Dog: And Other Dog Poems and Drawings
(Younger Readers Winner, 2025)
15+ Resources5 Awards
Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy
by Sonya Sones
(Winner, 2000)
10+ Resources3 Awards
The Invisible Ladder: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poems for Young Readers
(Winner, 1998)
10+ Resources2 Awards
I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African American Poetry
by Catherine Clinton and Stephen Alcorn
(Winner, 1999)
10+ Resources1 Awards
