2022 Children's Book Awards

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LUNCH

WELCOME & AUTHOR INTRODUCTIONS

Emily Kirkpatrick, NCTE Executive Director

Elementary

Mary-Kate Sableski,

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Sanjuana Rodriguez, Committee Chair Christian Robinson Acceptance Video Traci N. Todd Acceptance Speech

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Tracey Flores,
Section Chair EXCELLENCE IN POETRY FOR CHILDREN AWARD PRESENTATION
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Committee Chair 2022 Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels List review 2022 ORBIS PICTUS AWARD
PRESENTATION
2022 CHARLOTTE HUCK AWARD® PRESENTATION
2023 EXCELLENCE IN POETRY FOR CHILDREN AWARD 2023 Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels List announcement, Children’s Poetry Committee 2023 Excellence in Poetry for Children winner announcement, Children’s Poetry Committee 2023 NCTE ORBIS PICTUS AWARD® FOR OUTSTANDING NONFICTION FOR CHILDREN ANNOUNCEMENT Orbis Pictus Committee 2023 CHARLOTTE HUCK AWARD® FOR OUTSTANDING FICTION FOR CHILDREN ANNOUNCEMENT
CLOSING
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Donna Bulatowicz, Committee Chair Kaela Rivera Acceptance Speech
Charlotte Huck Committee
Tracey Flores

NOTABLE POETRY BOOKS LIST 20 22

Beautiful Day! Petite Poems for All Seasons Rodoula Pappa; illustration by Seng Soun Ratanavanh HARRY N. ABRAMS

Before We Stood Tall: From Small Seed to Mighty Tree Jessica Kulekjian; illustration by Madeline Kloepper KIDS CAN PRESS

The 1619 Project: Born on the Water Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson; illustration by Nikkolas Smith KOKILA

Carry On: Poetry by Young Immigrants Various contributors; translation by Susan Ouriou; illustration by Rogé Gerard OWL KIDS

Dear Treefrog Joyce Sidman; illustration by Diana Sudyka CLARION BOOKS

Delicious!: Poems Celebrating Street Food Around the World Julie Larios; illustration by Julie Paschkis BEACH LANE BOOKS

GOOD LUCK GOLD, & MORE Janet Wong POMELO BOOKS

Honey For You, Honey For Me: A First Book of Nursery Rhymes

Selected by Michael Rosen; illustration by Chris Riddell CANDLEWICK PRESS

Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance Nikki Grimes; various illustrators BLOOMSBURY

My Thoughts Are Clouds: Poems for Mindfulness Georgia Heard; illustration by Isabel Roxas ROARING BROOK PRESS

Hoop Kings 2: New Royalty Charles R. Smith, Jr. CANDLEWICK PRESS

Photo Ark ABC: An Animal Alphabet in Poetry and Pictures Debbie Levy; photos by Joel Sartore NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS

Sonny Rollins Plays the Bridge Gary Golio; illustration by James Ransome NANCY PAULSEN BOOKS

The Dirt Book: Poems About Animals That Live Beneath Our Feet David L. Harrison; illustration by Kate Cosgrove HOLIDAY HOUSE

The Last Straw: Kids vs. Plastics Susan Hood; illustration by Christiane Engel HARPERCOLLINS

The Tree in Me Corinna Luyken DIAL BOOKS

They Only See the Outside Kalli Dakos; illustration by Jimothy Oliver MAGINATION PRESS

Mii maanda ezhigkendmaanh / This Is How I Know Brittany Luby; illustration by Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley GROUNDWOOD BOOKS

Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright! An Animal Poem for Each Day of the Year Selected by Fiona Waters; illustration by Britta Teckentrup NOSY CROW

Together

Mona Damluji; illustration by Innosanto Nagara TRIANGLE SQUARE

Your Mama NoNieqa Ramos; illustration by Jacqueline Alcántara VERSIFY

VIEW THE FULL 2022 NOTABLE POETRY BOOKS AND VERSE NOVELS LIST ON OUR WEBSITE.

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Alone Megan E. Freeman ALADDIN

NOTABLE VERSE NOVELS LIST 20 22

The Deepest Breath Meg Grehan CLARION BOOKS

Everywhere Blue Joanne Rossmassler Fritz HOLIDAY HOUSE Reckless, Glorious, Girl Ellen Hagan BLOOMSBURY Red, White, and Whole Rajani LaRocca QUILL TREE BOOKS

Samira Surfs

Rukhsanna Guidroz; illustration by Fahmida Azim KOKILA

The Lost Language Claudia Mills HOLIDAY HOUSE

Unsettled Reem Faruqi HARPERCOLLINS

Worst-Case Collin Rebecca Caprara CHARLESBRIDGE

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ORBIS PICTUS AWARD

® FOR OUTSTANDING NONFICTION FOR CHILDREN 20 22

ORBIS PICTUS

WINNER

Nina: A Story of Nina Simone Traci N.Todd; illustration by Christian Robinson G.P. PUTMAN’S SONS BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS

ORBIS PICTUS HONOR

Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer

Traci Sorell; illustration by Natasha Donovan MILLBROOK PRESS

ORBIS PICTUS HONOR Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter Veronica Chambers VERSIFY

ORBIS PICTUS HONOR Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown Steve Sheinkin ROARING BROOK PRESS

ORBIS PICTUS RECOMMENDED What’s In Your Pocket? Collecting Nature’s Treasures Heather L. Montgomery; illustration by Maribel Lechuga CHARLESBRIDGE

ORBIS PICTUS RECOMMENDED Make Meatballs Sing: The Life & Art of Corita Kent Matthew Burgess; illustration by Kara Kramer ENCHANTED LION BOOOKS

COLLECTION

ORBIS PICTUS RECOMMENDED Sakamoto’s Swim Club Julie Abery; illustration by Chris Sasaki KIDS CAN PRESS

ORBIS PICTUS RECOMMENDED Butterfly for a King: Saving Hawai’i’s Kamehameha Butterflies Cindy Trumbore and Susan L. Roth LEE & LOW BOOKS

ORBIS PICTUS RECOMMENDED Planet Ocean: Why We All Need a Healthy Ocean Patricia Newman; photographs by Annie Crawley MILLBROOK PRESS

ORBIS PICTUS HONOR

Latinitas: Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers

Juliet Menéndez HENRY HOLT AND CO. (BYR)

ORBIS PICTUS HONOR

Unbound: The Life and Art of Judith Scott

Joyce Scott, Brie Spangle, Melissa Sweet; illustration by Melissa Sweet KNOPF BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS

ORBIS PICTUS RECOMMENDED Pura’s Cuentos: How Pura Belpré Reshaped Libraries with Her Stories Annette Bay Pimentel; illustration by Magaly Morales HARRY N. ABRAMS

ORBIS PICTUS RECOMMENDED Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana Brian Mitchell, Barrington Edwards, Nick Weldon HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS

ORBIS PICTUS RECOMMENDED We Must Not Forget: Holocaust Stories of Survival and Resistance Deborah Hopkinson SCHOLASTIC FOCUS

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CHARLOTTE HUCK WINNER Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls Kaela Rivera HARPERCOLLINS

CHARLOTTE HUCK HONOR Amber and Clay Laura Amy Schlitz; illustration by Julia Iredale CANDLEWICK PRESS

CHARLOTTE HUCK HONOR Starfish Lisa Fipps NANCY PAULSEN BOOKS

CHARLOTTE HUCK RECOMMENDED A Sled for Gabo Emma Otheguy; illustration by Ana Ramírez González ATHENEUM BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS

CHARLOTTE HUCK RECOMMENDED Borders Thomas King; illustration by Natasha Donovan LITTLE, BROWN BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS

CHARLOTTE HUCK RECOMMENDED The Lost Language Claudia Mills MARGARET FERGUSON BOOKS

CHARLOTTE HUCK HONOR Jo Jo Makoons: The Used-to-Be Best Friend Dawn Quigley; illustration by Tara Audibert HEARTDRUM

CHARLOTTE HUCK HONOR Laxmi’s Mooch Shelly Anand; illustration by Nabi H. Ali KOKILA

CHARLOTTE HUCK RECOMMENDED Pax, Journey Home Sara Pennypacker; illustration by Jon Klassen BALZER + BRAY

CHARLOTTE HUCK RECOMMENDED A Kind of Spark Elle McNicoll CROWN BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS

CHARLOTTE HUCK HONOR J.D. and the Great Barber Battle J. Dillard; illustration by Akeem S. Roberts KOKILA

CHARLOTTE HUCK RECOMMENDED Someone Builds the Dream Lisa Wheeler; illustration by Loren Long DIAL BOOKS

CHARLOTTE HUCK RECOMMENDED Dumplings for Lili Melissa Iwai NORTON YOUNG READERS

CHARLOTTE HUCK RECOMMENDED The Year I Flew Away Marie Arnold VERSIFY

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CHARLOTTE HUCK AWARD ® FOR OUTSTANDING FICTION FOR CHILDREN
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Charlotte Huck Committee

Donna Bulatowicz (Chair), Dahlia Constantine, Holly Johnson, Irene Latham, María Leija, Darius M. Phelps, JoAnne Powless

Children’s Poetry Committee

Mary-Kate Sableski (Chair), Gabrielle Atwood Halko, Ryan Colwell, Deanna Day, Rebecca Kai Dotlich, Joe Pizzo, Junko Sakoi

Orbis Pictus Committee

Sanjuana Rodriguez (Chair), Eliza Braden, Sophie M. Ladd, Julia Lopez-Robertson, Becki Maldonado, Noelle Mapes, Jeanne Swafford

And to:

María E. Fránquiz, NCTE President-Elect Executive Committee Liaison for all three awards

The publishers, marketing teams, and authors who submitted hundreds of books for review and sponsored author tables today

The NCTE members who sent in dozens of nominations

THANKS
20 22 NCTE CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARDS LUNCHEON SPECIAL THANKS
SPECIAL
TO THE SELECTION COMMITTEES FOR THESE AWARDS:
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