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.The 2022 Irma Black Award Ceremony
Thousands of children in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and the United Arab Emirates participated in the voting process in 2022. We will be sharing videos from the gold and silver medalists on this page in late May.
To learn more about the 2022 Irma Black Award, read this School Library Journal article
A Comment From a First Grader
Upon announcement, of the award, our room erupted in cheers and applause! One child saying…”It took a long time to figure that out, but I guess it was because there were TOO many good books to choose from. If there was only one good one it would have been easy!
