The Irma Simonton Black and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature (Irma Black Award) goes to an outstanding book for young children—a book in which text and illustrations are inseparable, each enhancing and enlarging on the other to produce a singular whole. The Irma Black Award is unusual in that children are the final judges of the winning book.
Irma Black Award Voting Form
Voting for Irma Black Award 2019 has finished. We hope you and your students enjoyed the books. Please contact cweill@bankstreet.edu for more information.
Irma Black Award Ceremony
This year over 7,000 children in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and the United Arab Emirates participated in the voting. The winner and honorees will accept their awards on Thursday, May 16, 2019. The event is open to the public but an RSVP is required. Caldecott winner Brian Floca will be the keynote speaker. If you cannot attend the ceremony, the event will be livestreamed starting at 10:00 AM, and can viewed at a later date on KidLit TV.
Honor Books