Charlotte Zolotow Award - Picture Book Text

Awards List

2016

Last Stop on Market Street
(Honor Book)
Matt De La Pena

When Otis Courted Mama
(Honor Book)
Kathi Appelt

Hoot Owl, Master of Disguise
(Honor Book)
Sean Taylor

The New Small Person
(Honor Book)
Lauren Child

A Poem in Your Pocket
(Highly Commended)
Margaret McNamara

Miss Hazeltine's Home for Shy and Fearful Cats
(Highly Commended)
Alicia Potter

Maya's Blanket
(Highly Commended)
Monica Brown

Ragweed's Farm Dog Handbook
(Highly Commended)
Anne Vittur Kennedy

How the Sun Got to Coco's House
(Highly Commended)
Bob Graham

Mama's Nightingale
(Highly Commended)
Edwidge Danticat

Waiting
(Highly Commended)
Kevin Henkes

When Sophie's Feelings Are Really, Really Hurt
(Highly Commended)
Molly Bang

Goodnight, Good Dog
(Highly Commended)
Mary Lyn Ray

2015

Sparky!
(Winner)
Jenny Offill

Tap Tap Boom Boom
(Honor Book)
Elizabeth Bluemle

Chengdu Could Not, Would Not, Fall Asleep
(Honor Book)
Barney Saltzberg

Edgar's Second Word
(Highly Commended)
Audrey Vernick

Hooray for Hat!
(Highly Commended)
Brian Won

Hula Hoopin' Queen
(Highly Commended)
Thelma Lynne Godin

Go to Sleep, Little Farm
(Highly Commended)
Mary Lyn Ray; Stephen Barr

One Big Pair of Underwear
(Highly Commended)
Laura Gehl

If You Were a Dog
(Highly Commended)
Jamie Swenson

Beautiful Moon
(Honor Book)
Tonya Bolden

What Forest Knows
(Highly Commended)
George Ella Lyon

2014

The Dark
(Winner)
Lemony Snicket

Building Our House
(Honor Book)
Jonathan Bean

When No One is Watching
(Highly Commended)
Eileen Spinelli

My Cold Plum Lemon Pie Bluesy Mood
(Honor Book)
Tameka Fryer Brown

Max and the Tag-Along Moon
(Highly Commended)
Floyd Cooper

Nino Wrestles the World
(Highly Commended)
Yuyi Morales

My Blue Is Happy
(Highly Commended)
Jessica Young

Big Snow
(Highly Commended)
Jonathan Bean

This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration
(Honor Book)
Jacqueline Woodson

Year of the Jungle
(Honor Book)
Suzanne Collins

The Silver Button
(Highly Commended)
Bob Graham

2013

Each Kindness
(Winner)
Jacqueline Woodson

Flabbersmashed About You
(Honor Book)
Rachel Vail

We March
(Highly Commended)
Shane Evans

No Go Sleep!
(Highly Commended)
Kate Feiffer

Auntie Yang's Great Soybean Picnic
(Highly Commended)
Ginnie Lo

Me and Momma and Big John
(Honor Book)
Mara Rockliff

Oh, No!
(Highly Commended)
Candace Fleming

Spike, the Mixed-up Monster
(Highly Commended)
Susan Hood

underGROUND
(Highly Commended)
Denise Fleming

Helen's Big World
(Highly Commended)
Doreen Rappaport

Sleep Like a Tiger
(Honor Book)
Mary Logue

Tea Cakes for Tosh
(Highly Commended)
Kelly Starling Lyons

2012

Me... Jane
(Winner)
Patrick McDonnell

Fortune Cookies
(Highly Commended)
Albert Bitterman

These Hands
(Highly Commended)
Margaret H. Mason

All the Water in the World
(Highly Commended)
George Ella Lyon

Three by the Sea
(Highly Commended)
Mini Grey

Tia Isa Wants a Car
(Highly Commended)
Meg Medina

Naamah and the Ark at Night
(Honor Book)
Susan Campbell Bartoletti

The Twins' Blanket
(Highly Commended)
Hyewon Yum

Nothing Like a Puffin
(Highly Commended)
Sue Soltis

Samantha on a Roll
(Highly Commended)
Linda Ashman

Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature
(Highly Commended)
Joyce Sidman

Apple Pie ABC
(Honor Book)
Alison Murray

2011

Big Red Lollipop
(Winner)
Rukhsana Khan

A Beach Tail
(Highly Commended)
Karen Lynn Williams

My Garden
(Highly Commended)
Kevin Henkes

Willoughby and the Moon
(Highly Commended)
Greg Foley

City Dog, Country Frog
(Honor Book)
Mo Willems

A Sick Day for Amos McGee
(Honor Book)
Philip Christian Stead

Little Black Crow
(Highly Commended)
Chris Raschka

April and Esme, Tooth Fairies
(Honor Book)
Bob Graham

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