The Children’s Book Committee at Bank Street College of Education is delighted to announce its 2020 Book Awards:
The Josette Frank Award for Fiction
When the Ground is Hard by Malla Nunn (G.P. Putnam & Sons)
The Claudia Lewis Award for Poetry
Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc by David Elliott (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers)
The Flora Stieglitz Straus Award for Non-Fiction
Infinite Hope: A Black Artists Journey from World War II to Peace by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books)
and
Enemy Child: The Story of Norman Mineta, A Boy Imprisoned in a Japanese Internment Camp During World War II by Andrea Warren (Margaret Ferguson Books)