2015 Sydney Taylor Book Award Results Announced
YOUNGER READERS
Winner
- My Grandfather’s Coat by Jim Aylesworth with illustrations by Barbara McClintock (Scholastic Press)
Honors
- Goldie Takes a Stand by Barbara Krasner with illustrations by Kelsey Garrity-Riley (Kar-Ben Publishing, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.)
- Never Say a Mean Word Again by Jacqueline Jules with illustrations by Durga Yael Bernhard (Wisdom Tales)
Notables
- Anna & Solomon by Elaine Snyder with illustrations by Harry Bliss (Macmillan)
- Here is the World by Lesléa Newman with illustrations by Susan Gal (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
- The Mitten String by Jennifer Rosner with illustrations by Kristina Swarner (Random House Books for Young Readers)
- Rabbi Benjamin’s Buttons by Alice B. McGinty with illustrations by Jennifer Black Reinhardt (Charlesbridge)
- Simon and the Bear by Eric Kimmel with illustrations by Matthew Trueman (Disney-Hyperion)
- The Story of Passover by David A. Adler with illustrations by Jill Weber (Holiday House)
OLDER READERS
Winner
- Hidden: A Child’s Story of the Holocaust by Loic Dauvillier & Greg Salsedo with illustrations by Marc Lizano (First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press)
Honors
- Death by Toilet Paper by Donna Gephart (Delacorte Press)
- The Whispering Town by Jennifer Elvgren with illustrations by Fabio Santomauro (Kar-Ben Publishing, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.)
Notables
- Fleabrain Loves Franny by Joanne Rocklin (Harry N. Abrams)
- From Foe to Friend & Other Stories: A Graphic Novel by S.Y. Agnon with illustrations by Shay Charka (The Toby Press)
- I Lived on Butterfly Hill by Marjorie Agosin with illustrations by Lee White (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
- Schools of Hope: How Julius Rosenwald Helped Change African American Education by Norman Finkelstein (Calkins Creek)
- Under the Egg by Laura Marx Fitzgerald (Penguin Young Readers)
TEEN READERS
Winners
- Storm by Donna Jo Napoli (a Paula Wiseman Book, published by Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Honors
- Isabel’s War by Lila Perl (Lizzie Skurnick Books, an imprint of IG Publishing)
- Like No Other by Una LaMarche (Razor Bill, an imprint of Penguin Group)
Notables
- Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi by Susan Goldman Rubin (Holiday House)
- Gottika by Helaine Becker with illustrations by Alexander Griggs-Burr (Dancing Cat Books)
- Playing for the Commandant by Suzy Zail (Candlewick)
- Prisoner of Night & Fog by Anne Blankman (Balzer + Bray)
- Rachel’s Hope by Shelly Sanders (Second Story Press)
