Claudia Lewis Award for Poetry, 1998-2024
Resources for the titles recognized by this award since its inception in 1998 -- honors the best poetry book of the year
Sponsored by Bank Street College of Education Center for Children's Literature
![Claudia Lewis Award for Poetry, 1998-2024](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/images/awards/110.jpg)
- 659 Resources including
- 62 Videos
- 25 Book Readings
- 56 Lesson Plans
- List Analysis Report
Showing 1-31 of 31 book results
![Brown Girl Dreaming](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0399252517.jpg)
![I Am Every Good Thing](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0525518770.jpg)
I Am Every Good Thing
by Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James
(Younger Readers Winner, 2021)
45 Resources15 Awards
![Surrender Tree, The: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0805086749.jpg)
![They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1947627066.jpg)
![One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/1619635542.jpg)
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
by Nikki Grimes
(Winner, 2018)
29 Resources11 Awards
![Kin: Rooted in Hope](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/89980_hi.jpg)
Kin: Rooted in Hope
by Carole Boston Weatherford and Jeffery Boston Weatherford
(Older Readers Winner, 2024)
29 Resources7 Awards
![Guyku: A Year of Haiku for Boys](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/0547240031.jpg)
Guyku: A Year of Haiku for Boys
by Bob Raczka and Peter H. Reynolds
(Winner, 2011)
27 Resources4 Awards
![Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1328987590.jpg)
![Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0547014945.jpg)
Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors
by Joyce Sidman and Pamela Zagarenski
(Winner, 2010)
25 Resources6 Awards
![Here's a Little Poem: A Very First Book of Poetry](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0763631418.jpg)
Here's a Little Poem: A Very First Book of Poetry
by Jane Yolen, Andrew Fusek Peters, and Polly Dunbar
(Winner, 2008)
24 Resources3 Awards
![Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/0547906501.jpg)
Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold
by Joyce Sidman and Rick Allen
(Younger Readers Winner, 2015)
24 Resources10 Awards
![Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0823418537.jpg)
![Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor's Life](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0316298026.jpg)
![Kick in the Head, A: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0763606626.jpg)
A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms
by Paul B. Janeczko and Chris Raschka
(Winner, 2006)
22 Resources6 Awards
![Carver: A Life in Poems](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/1886910537.jpg)
![My Seneca Village](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/1608981967.jpg)
![Way a Door Closes, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/080506477X.jpg)
![Book of Animal Poetry: 200 Poems with Photographs That Squeak, Soar, and Roar!](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/1426310099.jpg)
Book of Animal Poetry: 200 Poems with Photographs That Squeak, Soar, and Roar!
(Winner, 2013)
18 Resources4 Awards
![When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1596438525.jpg)
When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons
by Julie Fogliano and Julie Morstad
(Winner, 2017)
16 Resources8 Awards
![Watch That Ends the Night, The: Voices from the Titanic](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0763637033.jpg)
The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic
by Allan Wolf
(Older Readers Winner, 2012)
15 Resources4 Awards
![What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms & Blessings](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0544106164.jpg)
What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms & Blessings
by Joyce Sidman and Pamela Zagarenski
(Winner, 2014)
15 Resources3 Awards
![Emma Dilemma: Big Sister Poems](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0618428429.jpg)
Emma Dilemma: Big Sister Poems
by Kristine O'Connell George and Nancy Carpenter
(Younger Readers Winner, 2012)
14 Resources5 Awards
![You Don't Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/1523510994.jpg)
You Don't Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves
(Winner, 2022)
13 Resources2 Awards
![Mammalabilia](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/0152021671.jpg)
![Yesterday I Had the Blues](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/1582460841.jpg)
Yesterday I Had the Blues
by Jeron Ashford Frame and R. Gregory Christie
(Honor, 2004)
12 Resources3 Awards
![Flooded: Requiem for Johnstown](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1338540696.jpg)
![Little Dog and Duncan](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/061811758X.jpg)
Little Dog and Duncan
by Kristine O'Connell George and June Otani
(Winner, 2003)
11 Resources2 Awards
![At the Poles](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1536205990.jpg)
![Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0060283874.jpg)
Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy
by Sonya Sones
(Winner, 2000)
10 Resources3 Awards
![Invisible Ladder, The: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poems for Young Readers](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/0805038361.jpg)
The Invisible Ladder: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poems for Young Readers
(Winner, 1998)
8 Resources2 Awards
![I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African American Poetry](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0395895995.jpg)
I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African American Poetry
by Catherine Clinton and Stephen Alcorn
(Winner, 1999)
6 Resources1 Awards