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CBC Home CBC Publications How to Order Submission Guidelines Awards Young Reviewers Teen List Best of the Best Related Links Contact CBC   This Year's Awards Ceremony | Acceptance Speeches | Past Award Winners (1943-2007) About Our Awards ____________________________________________________________ Award winners (1943-2007) 2007 (books published in 2006) Josette Frank Award Clementine by Sara Pennypacker, illustrated by Marla Frazee (Hyperion Books for Children) -- and -- The Manny Files by Christian Burch (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) Flora Stieglitz Straus Award Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott Russell Freedman (Holiday House) 2006 (books published in 2005) Josette Frank Award each little bird that sings Deborah Wiles (Gulliver Books, Harcourt, Inc.) Flora Stieglitz Straus Award Gorilla Doctors Saving Endangered Great Apes Pamela S. Turner (Houghton Mifflin Company) Claudia Lewis Award A Kick In The Head An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms selected by Paul B. Janeczko illustrated by Chris Raschka (Candlewick Press) 2005 (books published in 2004) Josette Frank Award Ida B: and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World Katherine Hannigan (Greenwillow Books, HarperCollins Publishers) Flora Stieglitz Straus Award The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq written and illustrated by Jeanette Winter (Harcourt) and The Race to Save the Lord God Bird by Phillip Hoose (FSG) Claudia Lewis Award Here in Harlem: poems in many voices by Walter Dean Myers (Holiday House) and Hummingbird Nest: A Journal of Poems by Kristine O'Connell George illustrated by Barry Moser (Tricycle Press) 2004 (books published in 2003) Josette Frank Award (Fiction) The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury USA Children's Books) Claudia Lewis Award (Poetry) The Way a Door Closes by Hope Anita Smith, ill. by Shane W. Evans (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers) and Yesterday I Had the Blues by Jeron Ashford Frame, ill. by R. Gregory Christie (Tricycle Press) Flora Stieglitz Straus Award (Nonfiction) Hana's Suitcase by Karen Levine (Albert Whitman & Co.) A Lifetime Achievement Award Karla Kuskin as exhibited in a collection of her work, Moon, Have You Met My Mother? (Laura Geringer Books, an imprint of HarperCollins) 2003 (books published in 2002) Josette Frank Award Goddess of Yesterday by Caroline B. Cooney (Delacorte Press) and Jericho Walls by Kristi Collier (Henry Holt & Co.) Claudia Lewis Award Little Dog and Duncan by Kristine O'Connell George, ill. by June Otani (Clarion Books) Flora Stieglitz Straus Award No More! Stories and Songs of Slave Resistance by Doreen Rappaport, ill. by Shane W. Evans (Candlewick Press) When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson by Pam Muñoz Ryan , ill. by Brian Selznick (Scholastic Press) 2002 (books published in 2001) Josette Frank Award Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart Vera B. Williams (Greenwillow Books, HarperCollins Publishers) Flora Stieglitz Straus Award Carver: a life in poems by Marilyn Nelson (Front Street Books) Claudia Lewis Award Love That Dog by Sharon Creech (Joanna Cotler Books, HarperCollins Publishers) and Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart Vera B. Williams (Greenwillow Books, HarperCollins Publishers) 2001 (books published in 2000) Josette Frank Award Because of Winn-Dixie by KateDiCamillo (Candlewick) Flora Stieglitz Straus Award Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement by Dennis Brindell Fradin and Judith Bloom Fradin (Clarion) Claudia Lewis Award Mammalabilia by Douglas Florian (Harcourt) 2000 (books published in 1999) Josette Frank Award Figuring Out Frances (Gina Willner-Pardo-Clarion Books) Flora Stieglitz Straus Award Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges (Scholastic Books) Claudia Lewis Award Stop Pretending by Sonya Sones HarperCollins 1998 Josette Frank Award My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt (Henry Holt & Co.) Flora Stieglitz Straus Award Iqbal Masih and the Crusaders Against Child Slavery by Susan Kuklin (Henry Holt & Co.) Claudia Lewis Award I, Too, Sing America by Catherine Clinton (Houghton Mifflin) 1997 Josette Frank Award No Turning Back: A Novel of South Africa by Beverley Naidoo (HarperCollins) Wringer by Jerry Spinelli (HarperCollins) Flora Stieglitz Straus Award Oh, Freedom! Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement With the People Who Made It Happen by Casey King & Linda Barrett Osborne (Knopf) Claudia Lewis Award The Invisible Ladder: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poems for Young Readers edited by Liz Rosenberg (Henry Holt & Co.) 1996 The Cuckoo's Child by Suzanne Freeman (Greenwillow Books) 1995 Music from a Place Called Half Moon by Jerrie Oughton (Houghton Mifflin) The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte) Flora Stieglitz Straus Award Parallel Journeys by Eleanor Ayer (Atheneum) 1994 Earthshine by Theresa Nelson (Orchard) 1993 Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff (Henry Holt & Co.) Flora Stieglitz Straus Award Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman (Clarion Books) 1992 Blue Skin of the Sea by Graham Salisbury (Delacorte) 1991 Shadow Boy by Susan E. Kirby (Orchard) 1990 Secret City, USA by Felice Holman (Scribner's) 1989 Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder (Macmillan) 1988 The Most Beautiful Place in the World by Ann Cameron (Knopf) December Stillness by Mary Downing Hahn (Clarion) 1987 Rabble Starkey by Lois Lowry (Houghton Mifflin) 1986 Journey to Jo'burg by Beverley Naidoo (Lippincott) 1985 With Westie and the Tin Man by C.S. Adler (Macmillan) Special Citation Ain't Gonna Study War No More by Milton Meltzer (Harper & Row) 1984 One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox (Bradbury) 1983 The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton Mifflin) The Solomon System by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum) 1982 Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz (Putnam) 1981 A Spirit to Ride the Whirlwind by Athena Lord (Macmillan) 1980 A Boat to Nowhere by Maureen C. Wartski (Westminster) 1979 The Whipman is Watching by T.A. Dyer (Houghton Mifflin) 1978 The Devil in Vienna by Doris Orgel (Dial) 1977 The Pinballs by Betsy Byars (Harper) 1976 Somebody Else's Child by Roberta Silman (Warne) 1975 The Garden is Doing Fine by Carol Farley (Atheneum) 1974 Luke Was There by Eleanor Clymer (Holt/Rinehart & Winston) 1973 A Taste of Blackberries by Doris Buchanan Smith (T.Y. Crowell) 1972 A Sound of Chariots Mollie Hunter (Harper) 1971 John Henry McCoy by Lillie D. Chafin (Macmillan) Special Citation The Pair of Shoes by Aline Glasgow (Dial) 1970 Rock Star by James Lincoln Collier (Four Winds) Migrant Girl by Carli Laklan (McGraw-Hill) 1969 The Empty Moat by Margaretha Shemin (Coward-McCann) 1968 What It's All About by Vadim Frolov (Doubleday) Special Citation Where Is Daddy? The Story About Divorce by Beth Goff (Beacon) 1967 The Contender by Robert Lipsyte (Harper) 1966 Queenie Peavy by Robert Burch (Viking) Special Citation Curious George Goes to the Hospital by Margaret and H.A. Rey (Houghton Mifflin) 1965 The Empty Schoolhouse by Natalie Savage Carlson (Harper) 1964 The High Pasture by Ruth Harnden (Houghton Mifflin) 1963 The Peaceable Revolution by Betty Schechter (Houghton Mifflin) The Rock and the Willow by Mildred Lee (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard) 1962 The Trouble With Terry by John Lexau (Dial) 1961 The Road to Agra by Aimee Sommerfelt (Criterion) The Girl From Puerto Rico by Hila Colman (Morrow) 1960 Janine by Robin McKown (Messner) 1959 Jennifer by Zoa Sherburne (Morrow) 1958 South Town by Lorenz Graham (Follett) 1957 Shadow Across the Campus by Helen R Sattler (Dodd Mead) 1956 The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert de Jong (Harper) 1955 Plain Girl by Virginia Sorenson (Harcourt Brace & World) Crow Boy by Taro Yashima (Viking) 1954 The Ordeal of the Young Hunter by Jonreed Lauritzen (Little Brown) High Road Home by William Corbin (Coward-McCann) 1953 In a Mirror by Mary Stolz (Harper) 1952 Jareb by Miriam Powell (T.Y. Crowell) Twenty and Ten by Claire Huchet Bishop (Viking) 1951 No Award 1950 Partners: The United Nations and Youth by Eleanor Roosevelt & Helen Ferris (Doubleday) 1949 Paul Tiber: Forester by Maria Gleit Scribner 1948 The Big Wave by Pearl Buck John Day 1947 Judy's Journey by Lois Lenski Lippincott 1946 Heart of Danger by Howard Pease Doubleday 1945 The Moved-Outers by Florence Cranell Means Houghton Mifflin 1944 The House by Margorie Hill Alee Houghton Mifflin 1943 Keystone Kids by John R Tunis Harcourt, Brace & World