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12:30 p.m.
1:00 p.m. 1:10 p.m.
LUNCH
WELCOME & AUTHOR INTRODUCTIONS
Emily Kirkpatrick, NCTE Executive Director
Elementary
Mary-Kate Sableski,
1:15 p.m. 1:40 p.m. 2:00 p.m. 2:15 p.m. 2:25 p.m.
Sanjuana Rodriguez, Committee Chair Christian Robinson Acceptance Video Traci N. Todd Acceptance Speech
2:05 p.m.
Tracey Flores,
Section Chair EXCELLENCE IN POETRY FOR CHILDREN AWARD PRESENTATION
®
Committee Chair 2022 Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels List review 2022 ORBIS PICTUS AWARD
PRESENTATION
2022 CHARLOTTE HUCK AWARD® PRESENTATION
2023 EXCELLENCE IN POETRY FOR CHILDREN AWARD 2023 Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels List announcement, Children’s Poetry Committee 2023 Excellence in Poetry for Children winner announcement, Children’s Poetry Committee 2023 NCTE ORBIS PICTUS AWARD® FOR OUTSTANDING NONFICTION FOR CHILDREN ANNOUNCEMENT Orbis Pictus Committee 2023 CHARLOTTE HUCK AWARD® FOR OUTSTANDING FICTION FOR CHILDREN ANNOUNCEMENT
CLOSING
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Donna Bulatowicz, Committee Chair Kaela Rivera Acceptance Speech
Charlotte Huck Committee
Tracey Flores
NOTABLE POETRY BOOKS LIST 20 22
Beautiful Day! Petite Poems for All Seasons Rodoula Pappa; illustration by Seng Soun Ratanavanh HARRY N. ABRAMS
Before We Stood Tall: From Small Seed to Mighty Tree Jessica Kulekjian; illustration by Madeline Kloepper KIDS CAN PRESS
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson; illustration by Nikkolas Smith KOKILA
Carry On: Poetry by Young Immigrants Various contributors; translation by Susan Ouriou; illustration by Rogé Gerard OWL KIDS
Dear Treefrog Joyce Sidman; illustration by Diana Sudyka CLARION BOOKS
Delicious!: Poems Celebrating Street Food Around the World Julie Larios; illustration by Julie Paschkis BEACH LANE BOOKS
GOOD LUCK GOLD, & MORE Janet Wong POMELO BOOKS
Honey For You, Honey For Me: A First Book of Nursery Rhymes
Selected by Michael Rosen; illustration by Chris Riddell CANDLEWICK PRESS
Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance Nikki Grimes; various illustrators BLOOMSBURY
My Thoughts Are Clouds: Poems for Mindfulness Georgia Heard; illustration by Isabel Roxas ROARING BROOK PRESS
Hoop Kings 2: New Royalty Charles R. Smith, Jr. CANDLEWICK PRESS
Photo Ark ABC: An Animal Alphabet in Poetry and Pictures Debbie Levy; photos by Joel Sartore NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS
Sonny Rollins Plays the Bridge Gary Golio; illustration by James Ransome NANCY PAULSEN BOOKS
The Dirt Book: Poems About Animals That Live Beneath Our Feet David L. Harrison; illustration by Kate Cosgrove HOLIDAY HOUSE
The Last Straw: Kids vs. Plastics Susan Hood; illustration by Christiane Engel HARPERCOLLINS
The Tree in Me Corinna Luyken DIAL BOOKS
They Only See the Outside Kalli Dakos; illustration by Jimothy Oliver MAGINATION PRESS
Mii maanda ezhigkendmaanh / This Is How I Know Brittany Luby; illustration by Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley GROUNDWOOD BOOKS
Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright! An Animal Poem for Each Day of the Year Selected by Fiona Waters; illustration by Britta Teckentrup NOSY CROW
Together
Mona Damluji; illustration by Innosanto Nagara TRIANGLE SQUARE
Your Mama NoNieqa Ramos; illustration by Jacqueline Alcántara VERSIFY
VIEW THE FULL 2022 NOTABLE POETRY BOOKS AND VERSE NOVELS LIST ON OUR WEBSITE.
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Alone Megan E. Freeman ALADDIN
NOTABLE VERSE NOVELS LIST 20 22
The Deepest Breath Meg Grehan CLARION BOOKS
Everywhere Blue Joanne Rossmassler Fritz HOLIDAY HOUSE Reckless, Glorious, Girl Ellen Hagan BLOOMSBURY Red, White, and Whole Rajani LaRocca QUILL TREE BOOKS
Samira Surfs
Rukhsanna Guidroz; illustration by Fahmida Azim KOKILA
The Lost Language Claudia Mills HOLIDAY HOUSE
Unsettled Reem Faruqi HARPERCOLLINS
Worst-Case Collin Rebecca Caprara CHARLESBRIDGE
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ORBIS PICTUS AWARD
® FOR OUTSTANDING NONFICTION FOR CHILDREN 20 22
ORBIS PICTUS
WINNER
Nina: A Story of Nina Simone Traci N.Todd; illustration by Christian Robinson G.P. PUTMAN’S SONS BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS
ORBIS PICTUS HONOR
Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer
Traci Sorell; illustration by Natasha Donovan MILLBROOK PRESS
ORBIS PICTUS HONOR Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter Veronica Chambers VERSIFY
ORBIS PICTUS HONOR Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown Steve Sheinkin ROARING BROOK PRESS
ORBIS PICTUS RECOMMENDED What’s In Your Pocket? Collecting Nature’s Treasures Heather L. Montgomery; illustration by Maribel Lechuga CHARLESBRIDGE
ORBIS PICTUS RECOMMENDED Make Meatballs Sing: The Life & Art of Corita Kent Matthew Burgess; illustration by Kara Kramer ENCHANTED LION BOOOKS
COLLECTION
ORBIS PICTUS RECOMMENDED Sakamoto’s Swim Club Julie Abery; illustration by Chris Sasaki KIDS CAN PRESS
ORBIS PICTUS RECOMMENDED Butterfly for a King: Saving Hawai’i’s Kamehameha Butterflies Cindy Trumbore and Susan L. Roth LEE & LOW BOOKS
ORBIS PICTUS RECOMMENDED Planet Ocean: Why We All Need a Healthy Ocean Patricia Newman; photographs by Annie Crawley MILLBROOK PRESS
ORBIS PICTUS HONOR
Latinitas: Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers
Juliet Menéndez HENRY HOLT AND CO. (BYR)
ORBIS PICTUS HONOR
Unbound: The Life and Art of Judith Scott
Joyce Scott, Brie Spangle, Melissa Sweet; illustration by Melissa Sweet KNOPF BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS
ORBIS PICTUS RECOMMENDED Pura’s Cuentos: How Pura Belpré Reshaped Libraries with Her Stories Annette Bay Pimentel; illustration by Magaly Morales HARRY N. ABRAMS
ORBIS PICTUS RECOMMENDED Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana Brian Mitchell, Barrington Edwards, Nick Weldon HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS
ORBIS PICTUS RECOMMENDED We Must Not Forget: Holocaust Stories of Survival and Resistance Deborah Hopkinson SCHOLASTIC FOCUS
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CHARLOTTE HUCK WINNER Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls Kaela Rivera HARPERCOLLINS
CHARLOTTE HUCK HONOR Amber and Clay Laura Amy Schlitz; illustration by Julia Iredale CANDLEWICK PRESS
CHARLOTTE HUCK HONOR Starfish Lisa Fipps NANCY PAULSEN BOOKS
CHARLOTTE HUCK RECOMMENDED A Sled for Gabo Emma Otheguy; illustration by Ana Ramírez González ATHENEUM BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS
CHARLOTTE HUCK RECOMMENDED Borders Thomas King; illustration by Natasha Donovan LITTLE, BROWN BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS
CHARLOTTE HUCK RECOMMENDED The Lost Language Claudia Mills MARGARET FERGUSON BOOKS
CHARLOTTE HUCK HONOR Jo Jo Makoons: The Used-to-Be Best Friend Dawn Quigley; illustration by Tara Audibert HEARTDRUM
CHARLOTTE HUCK HONOR Laxmi’s Mooch Shelly Anand; illustration by Nabi H. Ali KOKILA
CHARLOTTE HUCK RECOMMENDED Pax, Journey Home Sara Pennypacker; illustration by Jon Klassen BALZER + BRAY
CHARLOTTE HUCK RECOMMENDED A Kind of Spark Elle McNicoll CROWN BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS
CHARLOTTE HUCK HONOR J.D. and the Great Barber Battle J. Dillard; illustration by Akeem S. Roberts KOKILA
CHARLOTTE HUCK RECOMMENDED Someone Builds the Dream Lisa Wheeler; illustration by Loren Long DIAL BOOKS
CHARLOTTE HUCK RECOMMENDED Dumplings for Lili Melissa Iwai NORTON YOUNG READERS
CHARLOTTE HUCK RECOMMENDED The Year I Flew Away Marie Arnold VERSIFY
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CHARLOTTE HUCK AWARD ® FOR OUTSTANDING FICTION FOR CHILDREN
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Charlotte Huck Committee
Donna Bulatowicz (Chair), Dahlia Constantine, Holly Johnson, Irene Latham, María Leija, Darius M. Phelps, JoAnne Powless
Children’s Poetry Committee
Mary-Kate Sableski (Chair), Gabrielle Atwood Halko, Ryan Colwell, Deanna Day, Rebecca Kai Dotlich, Joe Pizzo, Junko Sakoi
Orbis Pictus Committee
Sanjuana Rodriguez (Chair), Eliza Braden, Sophie M. Ladd, Julia Lopez-Robertson, Becki Maldonado, Noelle Mapes, Jeanne Swafford
And to:
María E. Fránquiz, NCTE President-Elect Executive Committee Liaison for all three awards
The publishers, marketing teams, and authors who submitted hundreds of books for review and sponsored author tables today
The NCTE members who sent in dozens of nominations
THANKS
20 22 NCTE CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARDS LUNCHEON SPECIAL THANKS
SPECIAL
TO THE SELECTION COMMITTEES FOR THESE AWARDS:
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