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New Honors / Upcoming Books

Carole Boston Weatherford won a Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award for How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee and Carole Boston Weatherford and Jeffery Weatherford received a Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award for Kin: Rooted in Hope at the January 2024 ALA Youth Media Awards.

      

Tameka Fryer Brown's That Flag has won a 2024 Charlotte Huck Honor Award,

a 2024 Jane Addams Children's Book Honor Award a 2024 Nerdy Book Award (Fiction Picture Books), and was selected for the 2024 Notable Books for a Global Society list. That Flag has also made the 2023 Best Book lists of NPR's Books We Love, the New York Public Library and School Library Journal.

 

Tameka Fryer Brown's Not Done Yet: Shirley Chisholm's Fight for Change was a 2023 Maryland Blue Crab Honor Book, a 2023 Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year, a 2022 Kirkus Best Book of 2022 and Kirkus Best Picture-Book Biography, made the 2023 Rise: A Feminist Book Project list, and was a 2022 Best Book of the Year at the Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature.

Fourteen WINC books have been named 2023 Bank Street College Best Children's Books.

      

     

  

Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes and Dawud Anyabwile has won the 2023 YALSA Excellence in NonFiction Award, a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award and a Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award. WINC's Alicia Williams' The Talk also won a Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award and Frank Morrison, illustrator of Carole Boston Weatherford's Standing in Need of Prayer was the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner.

   

Me and the Family Tree by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Ashleigh Corrin has won the Bank Street College of Education inaugural Margaret Wise Brown Board Book Award for excellence in literature for young children in the ages 18-36 months category.

                        

Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes and Dawud Anyabwile was named a finalist for the 2022 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Victory. Stand! was also named to NPR's List: Books We Love, 400+ Great 2022 Reads.

     

Kelly Starling Lyons' My Hands Tell a Story was named a recommended book by the Charlotte Huck Award Committee and a Best Book of 2022 by The New York Public Library. Her Miles Lewis: King of Ice was named a School Library Journal Best Book of 2022 and a Chicago Public Library Best Book along with Miles Lewis: Wiz Kid.

WINC welcomes new member Jeffery Weatherford.

                    

Carole Boston Weatherford has been nominated for the 2023 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature, which is awarded every other year to a living writer or author/illustrator with significant achievement in children's or YA literature. The winner, who will be named October 25 during Neustadt Lit Fest at the University of Oklahoma.

WINC welcomes new members Alicia Williams and Rebecca Petruck.

WINC welcomes new member Constance Lombardo.

                            

Five WINC authors' books were chosen for the Bank Street College Best Children's Books of 2022. Carole Boston Weatherford had three: Dreams for a Daughter, Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi Calls the House to Order and Unspeakable; Equal by Joyce Moyer Hostetter, Ty's Travels by Kelly Starling Lyons, A Small Kindness by Stacy McAnulty and I Am the Shark by Joan Holub.

Congratulations to WINC’s Carole Boston Weatherford and to the late Floyd Cooper for their Coretta Scott King Author and Illustrators Awards, for their Sibert Honor Award, and a Caldecott Honor Award for Unspeakable, The Tulsa Race Massacre at the 2022 ALA Youth Media Awards. Unspeakable is also a Jane Addams Children's Book Award Honor Book and an ALA Notable Book as well as a 2021 National Book Award longlist title.

Alan Gratz's novel Ground Zero has won the 2021 Grateful American Book Prize.

Many WINC authors made the five Bank Street College Best Children's Books of 2021 lists: Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom and Beauty Mark by Carole Boston Weatherford, The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep by Allan Wolf, I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James, Ty's Travels: Zip, Zoom! by Kelly Starling Lyons, Just Like Me by Vanessa Brantley-Newton and How to Build a Story...Or, the Big What if by Frances O'Roark Dowell.

        

Alan Gratz's novels Refugee and Ground Zero hit number two and three on The New York Times Middle Grade Hardcover Bestseller list of September 12, 2021.

Barbara O'Connor's novel Wish made the bestselling Middle Grade Paperback list for the same month.

Brown Baby Lullaby, written by Tameka Fryer Brown and illustrated by AG Ford is the winner of the fifth annual Anna Dewdney Read Together Award. I am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes, illustrated by Gordon C. James was a Dewdney Read Together Honor Book.

   

Hilarious Colbert Show Super Bowl ad for Foggy Pine Books in Boone, NC features Tom Hanks, Sam Elliot and (for a nanosecond) Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James’s I Am Every Good Thing. Click the pic or here to view video.

The 2021 Black History Month Read-In features WINC's Eleanora E. Tate, Carole Weatherford, Tameka Fryer Brown, Kelly Starling Lyons and Judy Allen Dodson.

Kelly Starling Lyons has been named 2021 North Carolina Piedmont Laureate.

In addition, Kelly's picture book, Tiara's Hat Parade, was chosen as the March Picture book for Read Across America and she was named to Good Morning America's Inspiration List: Who's Making Black History in 2021.

BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom by Carole Weatherford and illustrated by Michele Wood has won a 2021 Newbery Honor Award and Carole Weatherford's R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul illustrated by Frank Morrison has earned the 2021 Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book Award. Ty's Travels: Zip, Zoom! by Kelly Starling Lyons has won a 2021 Theodor Giesel Honor Medal. All three books are 2021 ALA Notable Books, along with I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James. Allan Wolf's The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep: Voices from the Donner Party was named to the 2021 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults list.

     

I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James has also won the NCTE 2021 Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children.

   

Encore! WINC once again congratulates the talented Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James winners of the 2020 Kirkus young readers' literature Kirkus Prize for I Am Every Good Thing.

 

Congratulations to illustrator Daniel Minter and author Kelly Starling Lyons for a 2020 Caldecott Honor win for Going Down Home With Daddy at ALA Midwinter in Philadelphia. Related article here. Going Down Home With Daddy also won the 2019 AAUW NC Young People's Literature Award.

WINC congratulates Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James winners of the 2018 young reader’s Kirkus Prize for Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut.

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Barbara O'Connor has won the NCSLMA NC Junior Book Award for her novel Wish, and Alan Gratz has won the NCSLMA Young Adult Book Award in the Middle School category for Projekt 1065.

WINC welcomes new member Gordon C. James.

Barbara Younger's manuscript Christabel and Mr. Reader, a picture book bio of Randolph Caldecott, won Honorable Mention for the 2018 Katherine Paterson Prize for YA and Children's Writing.

Kelly Starling Lyons and Vanessa Brantley-Newton's Jada Jones: Rock Star is a Maryland Blue Crab Young Reader Award Honor Book (transitional readers category).

   

Congrats to Carter G. Woodson Book Award and Honor Winners

Vanessa Brantley-Newton's The Youngest Marcher, written by Cynthia Levinson, and Carole Weatherford's Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library, illustrated by Eric Velasquez.

   

Alan Gratz's Code of Honor has won the 2017-2018 South Carolina Junior Book Award.

   

Vanessa Brantley-Newton's The Youngest Marcher and Carole Weatherford's Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library were named

ALSC 2018 Notable Children's Books along with multiple award winner Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes.

   

Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes and illustrated by Gordon C. James earned a quartet of honors at the 2018 ALA Youth Media Awards: a 2018 Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book award for Barnes, a 2018 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book award for James, and both a Randolph Caldecott Honor medal and a John Newbery Honor medal as well. These four honors came on the heels of Barnes' 2018 Ezra Jack Keats Author Award win. Crown was also named one of the best books of 2017 by NPR, the Huffington Post, PW, Kirkus, the LA Times, the Boston Globe, the Horn Book Magazine, the News & Observer, Bookpage, the Chicago Public Library and others.

 

Vanessa Brantley-Newton was nominated for an NAACP Image Award, Outstanding Literary Work Children’s category, for her illustrations in The Youngest Marcher, The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, A Young Civil Rights Activist by Cynthia Levinson.

 

Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Weatherford and illustrated by Eric Velasquez was voted the 2018 Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Golden Kite Award winner in the non-fiction for younger readers category.

   

Refugee by Alan Gratz has won the 2018 Sydney Taylor Book Award in the Older Readers category.

 

Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Weatherford and illustrated by Eric Velasquez has won the 2018 Walter Dean Myers Award in the Young Readers category.

  

 

Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes and illustrated by Gordon C. James and Refugee by Alan Gratz are PW Best Books of 2017.

 

Two short films based on Jacqueline Ogburn's picture books Scarlett Angelina Wolverton-Manning and The Bakeshop Ghost will be featured at the Louisville International Film Festival. Click on the images for info.

   

Scholastic Scope Magazine's September issue features Eleanora E. Tate's story Into the Storm, a version of an original short story Big Things Come in Small Packages from her story collection Don't Split the Pole: Tales of Down-Home Folk Wisdom. (Story art: Shane Rebenschied)

   

WINC grieves the passing of WINC emerita Luli Gray on August 16. 

Alan Gratz and his newest book Refugee are featured in the Horn Book's September Talks with Roger and in related August articles in the New York Times Books section here and here. Also, check out Alan's post about his other new book, Ban This Book, on John Scalzi's blog.

    

 

Monika Schröder's Be Light Like a Bird and Alan Gratz's Projekt 1065 are nominees for the NC School Library Media Association Youth Book Award 2017-2018.

   

Barbara O'Connor's, Wish, has won the SCBWI 2017 Crystal Kite Award for the SouthEast Division.

Carole Weatherford's Freedom in Congo Square, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie, has been named a 2017 Caldecott Honor Book as well as a 2017 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book.

Weatherford and Freedom in Congo Square also won the 2017 Charlotte Zolotow Award. She is the twentieth winner of this annual award, given for outstanding writing in a picture book. The award is given by the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) in Madison, Wisconsin.

    

Many of us were proud signatories of this Declaration against bigotry and in support of children and literature created by WINC members Kelly Starling Lyons, Tameka Fryer Brown, and the other inspiring authors at The Brown Bookshelf, noted on HuffPost and in The Guardian and in SLJ, among others. The accompanying Illustration, below, is by Vanessa Brantley-Newton.

Alan Gratz's Projekt 1065, Megan Shepherd's The Secret Horses of Briar Hill, and Carole Weatherford's Freedom in Congo Square, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie, as well as You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen, illustrated by Jeffery Weatherford were named Kirkus Best Books of 2016.

      

 

Freedom in Congo Square, by Carole Weatherford and illustrated by R. Gregory Christie is an 2017 ALA Notable Book, a 2016 Washington Post Best Book for Children and Young Adults, an SLJ Best Nonfiction Book of 2016 and a Horn Book Fanfare Best Book of 2016. Freedom and You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen, illustrated by Jeffery Weatherford, both made the 2016 New York Public Library Best Books for Kids list. You Can Flywas also named a Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young people by the Children's Book Council and the National Council for Social Studies.

 

     

The 2016 AAUW Award for Juvenile Literature was presented to Sheila Turnage at the NC Literary and Historical Association Meeting for her book, The Odds of Getting Even.

Three NC artists and activists - Vanessa Brantley-Newton, Blaine Way, and Glen Warren - discussed how positive images of black fathers are crucial in this time on PBS's Black Issues Forum.

Monika Schröder talks with Horn Book editor-in-chief Roger Sutton and to SLJ, here, about her new book Be Light Like a Bird.

   

The exhibition Patchwork North America: Paintings by Virginia Wright-Frierson has been extended to September 11, 2016 at the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, NC.

WINC authors Kelly Starling Lyons (r), Barbara O'Connor and Monika Schröder (l/c, l/r) at ALA 2016 Orlando.

   

Carole Weatherford's Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hammer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, illus. by Ekua Holmes, won a 2016 Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award in the nonfiction category.

  

Carole Weatherford's Sugar Hill: Harlems Historic Neighborhood, illus. by R Gregory Christie, won the Arnold Adoff Honor Poetry Award, given at the Virginia Hamilton Conference on Multicultural Literature at Kent State.

 

Alan Gratz's Prisoner B-3087 received the 2016 Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award in the Middle School category.

A film of Carrie Ryan's The Forest of Hands and Teeth starring Game of Thrones' star Maisie Williams is set to begin shooting in Romania in 2017.

J.J. Johnson's Believarexic and Alan Gratz's Code of Honor made the 2016 ILA Young Adult's Choices Reading List. Believarexic has also been nominated for The Keystone to Reading Readers' Choice Award.

      

Prix Farniente has announced that J.J. Johnson's book Cette fille est différente (This Girl is Different) won for 2016 in the 17 years and up category.

 

Many WINC members signed an Open Letter to NC Governor McCrory and the NC General Assembly calling for the immediate repeal of NC HB2. That letter was featured in Shelf Awareness and mentioned in a New York Times op ed.

Alan Gratz's Prisoner B-3087 won the South Carolina 2015-16 Junior Book Award.

Carole Weatherford's Gordon Parks, How the Photographer Captured Black and White America, illustrated by Jamie Christoph won the 2016 NAACP Image Award in the Outstanding Literary Work - Children category.

    

Julie Fortenberry's Sadie and Ori and the Blue Blanket, written by Jamie Korngold, was named a 2016 Sydney Taylor Notable Book for Young Readers.

 

Trifecta! Carole Weatherford's Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hammer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, illustrated by Ekua Holmes was awarded a 2016 Caldecott Honor Medal, a 2016 Sibert Honor Award, and the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award for illustrator Ekua Holmes.

   

A number of WINC authors with new or upcoming titles can be found on The Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrator's Book Launch Party. Check out Alan Gratz, Kelly Starling Lyons, and Joan Holub's pages on the SCBWI site.

Carole Weatherford's Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hammer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, illustrated by Ekua Holmes, has received a Parent's Choice Gold Award.

  

Wake County Public Libraries and the North Carolina Museum of History will honor WINC's Eleanora E. Tate with a series of programs on her work. This year marks milestone anniversaries for three of her acclaimed titles: African American Musicians turned 15. Thank You, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. turned 25. Just An Overnight Guest turned 35.

   

WINC welcomes new members Derrick Barnes and Megan Bryant.

WINC was well represented at SIBA this year. Carrie Ryan joined the pictured Alan Gratz, J. J. Johnson, and Joan Holub.

   

WINC welcomes new member Barbara O'Connor.

Sheila Turnage's third Mo & Dale Mystery, The Odds of Getting Even, has two starred reviews (so far) from Kirkus and Booklist and a glowing thumbs up from SLJ. It's a Junior Library Guild Selection and a Scholastic Book Club book. The first in the series, Three Times Lucky, was a Newbery Honor book in 2013.

  

Game of  Thrones star Maisie Williams has been cast to star in a movie adaptation of Carrie Ryan's Forest of Hands and Teeth.

Alan Gratz's The League of Seven is the winner of the 2015 SIBA Young Adult Book Award.

     

Carole Weatherford and Vanessa Brantley-Newton discussed "the importance of diverse characters and subjects, how to use books to talk with children about difficult social issues and the real gatekeeping and institutional challenges African Americans face in publishing" on PBS Video.

Highlights Hello magazine has honored Vanessa Brantley-Newton for her December 2014 issue cover illustration, which was named Cover of the Year by the editorial, art and production staff.

Eileen Heyes graduated from NCSU with a master's in English, with a concentration in British and American literature.

Illustrator Vanessa Brantley-Newton's The Hula-Hoopin' Queen, written by Thelma Lynne Godin, was named a Highly Commended title by the 2015 Charlotte Zolotow Committee.

WINC mourns the loss of our colleague Bonnie Christensen on January 12: Mahnaz Dar's obituary in School Library Journal.

Carole Weatherford's Leontyne Price: Voice of a Century, illustrated by Raúl Colón, has (so far) earned four starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Booklinks, and Shelf Awareness.

                   

Read the latest 2014-2015 news about WINC's Joan Holub on her new WINC page.

Watch Allan Wolf's entertaining Poetry Palooza Promo here or on his WINC Page.

Clay Carmichael's Wild Things was published in Italian as Creature Selvatiche by San Paolo.

                        

WINC-member Bank Street College Best Children's Books/2014: Dig, Scoop, Ka-boom! by Joan Holub , illus. by David Gordon; Mister and Lady Day: Billie Holiday and the Dog Who Loved Her by Amy Novesky, illus. by Vanessa Brantley-Newton and We Shall Overcome: The Story of a Song by Debbie Levy, illus. by Vanessa Brantley-Newton; My Cold Plum Lemon Pie Bluesy Mood by Tameka Fryer Brown, illus. by Shane W. Evans; Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz; and Brother, Brother by Clay Carmichael.

We Shall Overcome: The Story of a Song written by Debbie Levy and illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton has won a 2014 Jane Addams Children's Book Honor Award in the Books for Younger Children category.

  

WINC welcomes new members Megan Shepherd and Julie Fortenberry. Megan Shepherd's The Madman's Daughter won the 2014 NCSLMA YA Book Award.

        

Kelly Starling Lyons Hope's Gift, illustrated by Don Tate, and her Tea Cakes for Tosh, illustrated by Earl B. Lewis, have won 2014 Storytelling World Resource Awards.

Tameka Fryer Brown and Vanessa Brantley-Newton reading at Quail Ridge Books on 2/18/14.

  

 

Goodies to download about WINC members & books? Click here.

 

 

New & Upcoming Books, CDs & Publications

2025

Prayer Is by Tameka Fryer Brown, illus. by Alleanna Harris

Into the Winds by Carrie Ryan

 

2024

The Fate of Magic by Sarah Raasch and Beth Revis

Heroes by Alan Gratz

Shake it Off by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Who Got Game? Basketball Amazing but True Stores by Derrick Barnes, illus. by Jez Tuya

Bros by Carole Weatherford, illus. by Reggie Brown

The Doll Test: Choosing Equality by Carole Boston Weatherford, illus. by David Elmo Cooper

Crowning Glory: A Celebration of Black Hair by Carole Boston Weatherford, illus. by Ekua Holmes

Bridges Instead of Walls: The Story of Mavis Staples by Mavis Staples and Carole Boston Weatherford, illus. by Steffi Walthall

A Crown of Stories: The Life & Language of Beloved Writer Toni Morrison by Carole Boston Weatherford, illus. by Khalif Thompson

You Are My Pride: A Love Letter from Your Motherland by Carole Weatherford, illus. by E.B Lewis

Outspoken: Paul Robeson, Ahead of His Time: A One-Man Show by Carole Weatherford, illus. by Eric Velasquez

All the Greatness in You by Tameka Fryer Brown, illus. by Alleanna Harris

Itty Bitty Betty Blob by Constance Lombardo, illus. by Micah Player

Little Goddess Girls: Artemis and the Dog's Diamond by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams, illus. by Yuyi Chen

School for Magical Monsters: Rise of Pegasus by Joan Holub and Susanne Williams, illus. by Toby Allen

 

Mid Air by Alicia D. Williams, illustrated by Danica Novdorodoff

How to Tantrum Like a Champion: Ten Small Ways to Temper Big Feelings by Allan Wolf, illus. by Keisha Morris

A Cold Legacy (Madman's Daughter 3) by Megan Shepherd

The Evers: Never Thirteen by Stacy McAnulty

Ladies Day by Lisa Williams Kline

 

2023

The Evers: Forever Twelve by Stacy McAnulty

I Want 100 Dogs by Stacy McAnulty, illus. by Claire Keane

Pluto!: Not a Planet? Not a Problem! by Stacy McAnulty, illus. by Claire Keane

   

Prak Fills the House by Donna Washington, illus. by Lauren Emmons

Night of the Witch by Sarah Raasch and Beth Revis

Nesting Dolls by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Roquera by Kelly Starling Lyons, illus. by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Miles Lewis, Track Star by Kelly Starling Lyons, illus. by Wayne Spencer

Ty's Travels Camp Out by Kelly Starling Lyons, illus. by Nina Mata

   

That Flag by Tameka Fryer Brown, illus. by Nikkolas Smith

Bountiful Red Acres: Two Farms, Two Families, and a Year on the Land by Eileen Heyes, illus. by Dare Coulter

Captain America The Ghost Army by Alan Gratz, illus. by Brent Schooner

Birmingham 1963 by Carole Weatherford

How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee by Carole Weatherford, illus. by Frank Morrison

All Rise: The Story of Ketanji Brown Jackson by Carole Weatherford, illus. by Ashley Evans

You Are My Pride: A Love Letter from Your Motherland by Carole Weatherford, illus. by E. B. Lewis

 

Kin: Rooted in Hope by Carole Weatherford, art by Jeffery Weatherford

Santa's Gotta Go by Derrick Barnes, illus. by Courtney Lovett

Like Lava in My Veins by Derrick Barnes, illus. by Shawn Martinbrough

 

Between the Sky and the Sea by Lisa Williams Kline

Where are the Aliens? by Stacy McAnulty, illus. by Nicole Miles

Elpis the Hopeful by Joan Holub, illus. by S. Williams

Aphrodite and the Dragon's Emerald by Joan Holub, illus. by S. Williams

Artemis the Brave by Joan Holub, illus. by S. Williams

Heros in Training: Great Balls of Fire by Joan Holub, illus. by S. Williams

Big Stuff: Dozer, Excavator, Mixer & More by Joan Holub, illus. by S. Little Friends of Printmaking

Bears Are Best! by Joan Holub, illus. by Laurie Keller

Midnight Showing by Megan Shepherd

 

2022

Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes and Dawud Anyabwile

The Talk by Alicia D. Williams, illustrated by Briana Mukodiri Uchendu

Little Treasures board book by Jacqueline Ogburn, illustrated by Chris Raschka

Twelve Dinging Doorbells by Tameka Fryer Brown, illus. by Ebony Glenn

Not Done Yet by Tameka Fryer Brown, illus. by Nina Crews

 

Becoming Vanessa by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

1 2 3 I Can Be...by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Let Freedom Sing by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Mary Had a Little Plan by Tami Sauer and Illus. by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

   

Our Planet! by Stacy McAnulty, illus. by David Litchfield

Excellent Ed by Stacy McAnulty illus. by Julia Sarcone-Roach

Save the People! by Stacy McAnulty, illus. by Nicole Miles

Blood! Not Just a Vampire Drink by Stacy McAnulty illus. by S.Tenney

     

Just Like Jesse Owens by Ambassador Andrew Young as told to Paula Young Shelton, illus by Gordon C. James

Island of Spies by Sheila Turnage

Two Degrees by Alan Gratz

Boo-nicorns by Joan Holub, illus. by Allison Black

This Little Wonder by Joan Holub, illus. by Daniel Roode

Hades and the Helm of Darkness by Joan Holub, illus. by S. Williams

Aphrodite the Beautiful by Joan Holub, illus. by S. Williams

Artemis the Hero by Joan Holub, illus. by S. Williams

Persephone and the Unicorn's Ruby by Joan Holub, illus. by S. Williams

       

Dog Star by Megan Shepherd

Malice House by Megan Shepherd

My Hands Tell a Story by Kelly Starling Lyons, illus. by Tonya Engel

Miles Lewis, King of the Ice by Kelly Starling Lyons, illus. by W. Spencer

 

Big Rig by Louise Hawes

Hazard by Frances O'Roark Dowell

Abby In Between by Megan Bryant

The Blanket Where Violet Sits by Allan Wolf, illus. by Lauren Tobia

Behold Our Magical Garden by Allan Wolf, illus. by Daniel Duncan

 

Me and My Mama by Carole Weatherford, illus. by Ashleigh Corrin

Grandma and Me by Carole Weatherford, illus. by Ashleigh Corrin

Sugar Pie Lullaby by Carole Weatherford, illus. by Sawyer Cloud

Standing in the Need of Prayer by Carole Weatherford, illus. by Frank Morrison

Me and the Family Tree by Carole Weatherford, illus. by Ashleigh Corrin

A Song for the Unsung by Carole Weatherfordand Rob Sanders, illus. by Byron McCray

The Faith of Elijah Cummings by Carole Weatherford, illus. by Laura Freeman

 

Call Me Miss Hamilton by Jeffery Weatherford & Carole Weatherford

The Queen of Kindergarten by Derrick Barnes, illus. by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Tiny Spoon vs. Little Fork by Constance Lombardo, illus. by Dan & Jason

2021

 

 

Boo Stew by Donna Washington, illus. by Jeffrey Ebbeler

Ty's Travels: Beach Day by Kelly Starling Lyons, illus. by Nina Mata

Jada Jones, Sky Watcher by Kelly Starling Lyons, illus. by Nneka Myers and Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Joy Lives in You by Kelly Starling Lyons, included in the anthology, Recognize: Black Lives Matter.

Equal by Joyce Moyer Hostetter

Halfway to Harmony, by Barbara O'Connor

No Buddy Like a Book by Allan Wolf, illustrated by Brianne Farley

Dreams for a Daughter by Carole Weatherford, illus. by Brian Pinkney

Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Weatherford, illus. by Floyd Cooper

 

Mars: Earthlings Welcome by Stacy McAnulty and Stevie Lewis

A Small Kindness by Stacy McAnulty and Wendy Leach

 

Ground Zero by Alan Gratz

Mighty Moms by Joan Holub, illus. by Joyce Wan

This Little Environmentalist by Joan Holub, illus. by Daniel Roode

I am the Shark by Joan Holub, illus. by Laurie Keller

Persephone and the Evil King by Joan Holub, illus. by Suzanne Williams

What's in Unicorn's Backpack? by Joan Holub, illus. by Alyssa Nassner

What's in Dragon's Backpack? by Joan Holub, illus. by Christopher Lee

   

      

 

202o

How to Build a Story...Or, the Big What If by Frances O'Roark Dowell, illus.by Stacy Ebert

Li'l Rabbit's Kwanzaa (paper) by Donna Washington, illus. by Shane W. Evans

Dream Builder by Kelly Starling Lyons, illus. by Laura Freeman

Ty's Travels: Zip, Zoom! by Kelly Starling Lyons illus. by Nina Mata

 

Brown Baby Lullaby by Tameka Fryer Brown, illus. by A. G. Ford

Just Like Me by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Mama's Work Shoes by Caron Levis and illus. by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

 

Box by Carole Weatherford, illus. by Michele Wood

By and By by Carole Weatherford, illus. by Bryan Collier

 

Rebel in the Library of Ever by Zeno Alexander

The Class by Francis O'Roark Dowell

I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James

Persephone the Grateful by Joan Holub, illus. by Suzanne Williams

Millionaires for the Month by Stacy McAnulty

Max Explains Everything: Puppy Expert by Stacy McAnulty and Deborah Hocking

Oceans! Waves for All by Stacy McAnulty and David Litchfield

   

My Vote, My President, My Supreme Court and My Congress by Megan Bryant and Daniel Prosterman, et al.

     

The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep by Allan Wolf

Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions about Small Town America by Nora Shalaway Carpenter and David Macinnis Gill et al.

2019

Going Down Home with Daddy by Kelly Starling Lyons, illus. by Daniel Minter

Jada Jones, Sleepover Scientist by Kelly Starling Lyons, illus. by Nneka Myers and Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Sing a Song by Kelly Starling Lyons, illus. by Keith Mallett

     

Chairs in the Trees by Donna Washington

Walking in Ancient Wisdom by Donna Washington

 

One Week of You by Lisa Williams Kline

The King of Kindergarten by Derrick Barnes, illus. by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Let 'Er Buck by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, illustrated by Gordon C. James

The Day the Universe Exploded My Head: Poems to Take You into Space and Back Again by Allan Wolf

Allan Wolf in Poetry Collections: The Proper Way to Meet a Hedgehog and Other How-To Poems, Paul B. Janeczko, Ed. and The Poetry of US: More than 200 poems that celebrate the people, places, and passions of the United States, J. Patrick Lewis, Ed.

      

Allies by Alan Gratz

The Roots of Rap by Carole Weatherford, illus. by Frank Morrison

Sam the Man and the Cell Phone Plan by Francis O'Roark Dowell; Amy June Bates, illus.

 

Midnight Beauties by Megan Shepherd

Bid My Soul Farewell by Beth Revis

2018

We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices, ed. Wade Hudson & Cheryl Willis Hudson, with many contributors including WINC authors Tameka Fryer Brown, Vanessa Brantley-Newton, Kelly Starling Lyons, Eleanora E. Tate, Carole Weatherford

Sleighbear by Virginia Wright-Frierson (app format)

 

Sam the Man and the Dragon Van Plan by Francis O'Roark Dowell

Sam the Man & the Secret Detective Club Plan by Francis O'Roark Dowell; Amy June Bates, illus.

   

A Girl Named Misty by Kelly Starling Lyons, illus. by Melissa Manwill

Thunder Girls/Sif and the Dwarfs' Treasures by Joan Holub, illus. by Suzanne Williams

Grim Lovelies by Megan Shepherd

Wonderland, by Barbara O'Connor

Drive by Joyce Moyer Hostetter

Grandma's Purse by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

The Law of Finders Keepers by Sheila Turnage

Be a King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream and You, by Carole Weatherford, illus. by James E. Ransome

How Sweet the Sound: The Story of Amazing Grace, by Carole Weatherford, illus. by Frank Morrison

 

2017

Glow by Megan Bryant

In Your Hands, by Carole Weatherford, illus. by Brian Pinkney

Schomburg, by Carole Weatherford, illus. by Eric Velasquez

The Legendary Miss Lena Horne, by Carole Weatherford, art by E. Zunon

Dorothea Lange, by Carole Weatherford, pictures by Sarah Green

       

Uncanny by David Macinnis Gill

Refugee by Alan Gratz

Ban This Book by Alan Gratz

 

Who Killed Christopher Goodman? by Allan Wolf

Unicorn in the Barn by Jacqueline Ogburn, illustrated by Rebecca Green

Bear at the Beach and Other Adventures by Clay Carmichael

Jada Jones, Rock Star and Jada Jones, Class Act by Kelly Starling Lyons, illus. by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

   

Nyx the Mysterious by Joan Holub, illus. by Suzanne Williams

Vampoodle by Joan Holub, illus. by Tim Bowers

Tool School by Joan Holub, illus. by James Dean

This Little Trailblazer by Joan Holub, illus. by Daniel Roode

Medea the Enchantress by Joan Holub, illus. by Suzanne Williams

The Youngest Marcher by C. Levinson, illus. by V. Brantley-Newton

Like Vanessa, by Tami Charles, illus. by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Early Sunday Morning by Denene Millner, illus. by V. Brantley-Newton

A Night Out with Mama, by Quvenzhané Wallis, illus. by V. Brantley-Newton

      

Lord of Monsters by John Claude Bemis

Sam the Man and the Rutabaga Plan by Francis O'Roark Dowell

Shadows of the Lost Sun by Carrie Ryan and John Park Davis

Star Wars Rebel Rising by Beth Revis

Paper Hearts Workbook by Beth Revis

 

 

2016

Birds in the Air by Frances O'Roark Dowell

Mary Had a Little Glam by Tammi Sauer, illus. by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Calliope the Muse by Joan Holub, illustrated by Suzanne Williams

Pallas the Pal by Joan Holub, illustrated by Suzanne Williams

    

The Secret Horses of Briar Hill by Megan Shepherd

The Hunt by Megan Shepherd

Aim by Joyce Moyer Hostetter

Be Light Like a Bird by Monika Schröder

Wish, by Barbara O'Connor

Freedom in Congo Square, by Carole Weatherford, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie

The Language of Stars by Louise Hawes

Projekt 1065 by Alan Gratz

Monster War by Alan Gratz

Trouble on the Water by Francis O'Roark Dowell

Out of a Baton by John Claude Bemis

A World Without You by Beth Revis

One More Dino on the Floor by Kelly Starling Lyons

Dump Truck Duck by Megan Bryant

My Snow Globe by Megan Bryant

 

2015

I Have Plans For You by A. Parker, illus. by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

The Odds of Getting Even by Sheila Turnage

Sara and Ori and the Blue Blanket by Jamie Korngold, illustrated by Julie Fortenberry

Believarexic by Jj Johnson

Daughter of Deep Silence by Carrie Ryan

City of Thirst by Carrie Ryan and John Park Davies

Code of Honor by Alan Gratz

A Cold Legacy by Megan Shepherd

Leontyne Price, by Carole Weatherford, illustrated by Raúl Colón

Gordon Parks, by Carole Weatherford, illustrated by Jamey Christoph

Voice of Freedom Fannie Lou Hamer, by Carole Weatherford, illustrated by Ekua Holmes

   

The Dragon Lantern by Alan Gratz, illustrated by Brett Helquist

Katie Fry Private Eye by Katherine Cox, illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

The Cage by Megan Shepherd

Make a Wish, Midas! and Brush Your Hair, Medusa! by Joan Holub

   

Paper Hearts books on Writing, Publishing and Marketing by Beth Revis

   

2014

The Map to Everywhere by Carrie Ryan and John Park Davies

Darkest Fear (Birthright) by Cate Tiernan

The Body Electric by Beth Revis

Hero of the Five Points by Alan Gratz

Phineas L. MacGuire Gets Cooking by Frances O'Roark Dowell

Hula-Hoopin' Queen by Thelma Lynne Godin, illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Mighty Dads (illustrated by James Dean), Be Patient, Pandora! Play Nice, Hercules! (illustrated by Leslie Patricelli), Athena the Proud, Iris the Colorful, Aphrodite the Fair and What Was the Statue of Liberty?, among others, all by Joan Holub

   

Anybody Shining by Frances O'Roark Dowell

Things I'll Never Say by Louise Hawes and others

The Artist and the King by Julie Fortenberry

Her Dark Curiosity by Megan Shepherd

Ghosts of Tupelo Landing by Sheila Turnage

Sugar Hill, by Carole Weatherford and illustrated by Gregory Christie.

The League of Seven by Alan Gratz, illustrated by Brett Helquist

 

2013

The Sound of Your Voice, Only Really Far Away by Frances O'Roark Dowell

A Tureen of  Tales by Donna Washington

AFRICA by Carole Boston Weatherford and designed by Jeffery Weatherford

Shades of Earth  by Beth Revis

Shadow on the Sun by David Macinnis Gill

Rising Sun by David Macinnis Gill (ebook only)

  

Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz, Jack Gruner and Ruth Gruner

Mister and Lady Day by  Amy Novesky, illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

We Shall Overcome by Debbie Levy, illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

 

What Was the First Thanksgiving? by Joan Holub

What Was the Gold Rush? by Joan Holub, illustrated by Tim Tomkinson

Goddess Girls/Pheme the Gossip by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams

Goddess Girls/Persephone the Daring by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams

         

Heroes In Training/Hades and the Helm of Darkness by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams, illustrated by Craig Phillips

Heroes In Training/Hyperion and the Great Balls of Fire by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams, illustrated by Craig Phillips

Blue Autumn and Winter's Tide by Lisa Williams Kline

  

The Watch That Ends the Night (paper) by Allan Wolf

Snapshot Poetry Writing: 20 High Impact Clinics that Help Students Read, Write and Think Across the Curriculum by Holbrook, Salinger, Luedeke; with poems by Allan Wolf

Brother, Brother by Clay Carmichael

Flora and the Runaway Rooster by John Claude Bemis (for Heifer International)

 

 

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