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2015 CLSA Presentation

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Outstanding Picture Book Biographies 

 

Reviewed on Richie's Picks: 

 

 

 

 

   
 
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Recognized by recent Caldecott Award committees:

Book cover: The Right Word

2015 Caldecott Honor:

 

The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus, illustrated by Melissa Sweet, written by Jen Bryant and published by Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Book cover: The Noisy Paint Box

2015 Caldecott Honor:

 

The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art, illustrated by Mary GrandPré, written by Barb Rosenstock and published by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York

Book cover: Viva Frida

2015 Caldecott Honor:

 

Viva Frida by Yuyi Morales (Roaring Brook Press, a Neal Porter Book)

2012 Caldecott Honor:

 

Me...Jane by Patrick McDonnell (Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.)

 

2011 Caldecott Honor: 

 

Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave, illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Laban Carrick Hill (Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.)

 

2009 Caldecott Honor:

 

A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams , illustrated by Melissa Sweet, written by Jen Bryant (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.)

 

2008 Caldecott Honor: 

 

Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Ellen Levine (Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic)

 

2007 Caldecott Honor: 

 

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom  illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Carole Boston Weatherford (Hyperion/Jump at the Sun)

 

2006 Caldecott Honor: 

 

Rosa illustrated by Bryan Collier and written by Nikki Giovanni (Henry Holt and Company)

 

 

 

2004 Caldecott Medal Winner: 

 

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein (Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook Press)

 

 

 

Recognized by recent Sibert Award committees:

Book cover: The Right Word

2015 Sibert Medal Winner:

 

The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus, illustrated by Melissa Sweet, written by Jen Bryant and published by Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

2015 Sibert Honor:

 

Separate Is Not Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation, written and illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh and published by Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS

 

2015 Sibert Honor:

 

Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker, written by Patricia Hruby Powell, illustrated by Christian Robinson and published by Chronicle Books LLC

 

2014 Sibert Honor:

 

A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin, written by Jen Bryant, illustrated by Melissa Sweet (Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc.)

 

2013 Sibert Honor: 

 

Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by Robert Byrd  (Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group)

 

2012 Sibert Medal Winner: 

 

Balloons over Broadway:  The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade by Melissa Sweet (Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

 

2012 Sibert Honor: 

 

Drawing from Memory by Allen Say (Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.)

2011 Sibert Honor: 

 

Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring, written by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, illustrated by Brian Floca (A Neal Porter Book, published by Flash Point, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing)

 

2011 Sibert Honor: 

 

The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors, written by Chris Barton, illustrated by Tony Persiani (Charlesbridge) 

 

2009 Sibert Honor:  

 

What to Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy!,  written by Barbara Kerley and illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham (Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc.)

2008 Sibert Medal Winner:

 

The Wall: Growing Up behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sís  (Farrar/Frances Foster)

 

2007 Sibert Honor: 

 

To Dance: A Ballerina’s Graphic Novel, written by Siena Cherson Siegel, artwork by Mark Siegel (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson and Simon & Schuster/Aladdin)

 

2005 Sibert Honor:

 

Walt Whitman: Words for America,written by Barbara Kerley, illustrated by Brian Selznick (Scholastic Press/Scholastic Inc.)

2005 Sibert Honor:

 

Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing by James Rumford, translated into Cherokee by Anna Sixkiller Huckaby (Houghton Mifflin Company)

 

 

Recognized by recent Orbis Pictus Award committees:


2014 Orbis Pictus Award Winner: 

 

A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin

by Jen Bryant, illustrated by Melissa Sweet (Alfred A. Knopf)

 

 

2013 Orbis Pictus Award Winner:  

 

Monsieur Marceau: Actor without Words

by Leda Schubert, illustrated by Gérard DuBois (Roaring Brook Press)

 

 

2012 Orbis Pictus Award Winner:  

 

Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade

by Melissa Sweet (Houghton Mifflin Books for Children)

 

2011 Orbis Pictus Award Winner:  

 

Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring

by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, illustrated by Brian Floca

(Roaring Brook Press)

 

2010 Orbis Pictus Award Winner: 

 

The Secret World of Walter Anderson

by Hester Bass, illustrated by E.B. Lewis (Candlewick Press)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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