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Bank Street College of Education’s Children’s Book Committee Announces its Annual Awards!

The Josette Frank Award for Fiction

A Heart in a Body in the World
A Heart In A Body In The World by Deb Caletti (Simon and Schuster)

The Claudia Lewis Award for Poetry

They Call Me Güero
They Call Me Güero by David Bowles (Cinco Puntos Press)

The Flora Stieglitz Straus Award for Nonfiction
Older Readers

Just Mercy
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (Delacorte Press)

The Flora Stieglitz Straus Award for Nonfiction
Younger Readers

Dreamers
Dreamers by Yuyi Morales (Holiday House)

The public is invited to attend the awards ceremony in Bank Street’s Tabas Auditorium starting at 9:30 AM on Thursday, April 4, 2019.  Please RSVP to bookcom@bankstreet.edu.

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