The Award Winner for 2008:
Birmingham, 1963 by Carole Boston Weatherford (Wordsong/Boyds Mills Press)
Two Honor Books:
Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems by John Grandits (Clarion Books)
This Is Just To Say; Poems Of Apology And Forgiveness by Joyce Sidman (Hougton Mifflin)
Sylvia Vardell posted about it on her blog, Poetry for Children. The Lee Bennett Hopkins Award for Children’s Poetry is administered by Pennsylvania State University College of Education and the Pennsylvania State University Libraries.