Bank Street Book Award Winners

March 01, 2012

Last Thursday at Bank Street College in New York City, the Bank Street Children's Book Committee honored the winners of its fiction, nonfiction and poetry awards.

From left: Albert Marrin, winner of the Flora Straus Nonfiction Award for older readers for Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy (Knopf); Allan Wolf, whose The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic by Allan Wolf (Candlewick) won the Claudia Lewis Poetry Award for older readers; Pat Schmatz, winner of the Josette Frank Award for Fiction for Bluefish; Nancy Carpenter and Kristine O'Connell George, creators of Emma Dilemma: Big Sister Poems (Clarion), winner of the Claudia Lewis Award for Poetry for younger readers. Not pictured: Melissa Sweet, whose Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) won the Straus Nonfiction Award in the younger category.

Via Shelf Awareness.