The Irma S. and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature
Bank Street College of Education.
Presented annually to a picture book selected by children (from a shortlist chosen by older children). Originally named in honor of Irma Simonton Black, a writer and editor of children's books.
Full details of the Award
- 1995 - Wicked Jack, adapted by Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge, ill. Will Hillenbrand. Holiday
- 1994 - Pink and Say, Patricia Polacco. Philomel
- 1993 - Three Sacks of Truth, Eric A. Kimmel, ill. Robert Rayevsky. Holiday
- 1992 - The King's Equal, Katherine Paterson, ill. Vladimir Vagin. HarperCollins
- 1991 - The Enchanted Wood, Ruth Sanderson. Little, Brown
- 1990 - Charlie Anderson, Barbara Abercrombie, ill. Mark Graham. McElderry
- 1989 - The Talking Eggs, Robert D. San Souci, ill. Jerry Pinkney. Dial
- 1988 - The Porcupine Mouse, Bonnie Pryor, ill. Maryjane Begin. Morrow
- 1987 - Heckedy Peg, Audrey Wood, ill. Don Wood. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- 1986 - Dr. Change, Joanna Cole, ill. Donald Carrick. Morrow
- 1985 - Chloe and Maude, Sandra Boynton. Little, Brown
- 1984 - The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, Chris Van Allsburg. Houghton Mifflin
- 1983 - No One Is Going To Nashville, Mavis Jukes, ill. Larry Bloom. Pantheon
- 1982 - Mustard, Charlotte Graebner, ill. Donna Diamond. Macmillan
- 1981 - The Stories Julian Tells, Ann Cameron, ill. Ann Strugnell. Macmillan
- 1980 - Gorky Rises, William Steig. Farrar, Straus, Giroux
- 1979 - The Garden of Abdul Gasazi, Chris Van Allsburg. Houghton Mifflin
- 1978 - Felix in the Attic, Larry Bograd, ill. Dirk Zimmer. Harvey House
- 1977 - The Mysterious Tadpole, Steven Kellogg. Dial
- 1976 - The Easter Egg Artists, Adrienne Adams. Scribner's, and Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like, Jay Williams, ill. Mercer Mayer. Four Winds Press
- 1975 - Morris's Disappearing Bag, Rosemary Wells. Dial, and The Maggie B., Irene Haas. Atheneum
- 1974 - She Come Bringing Me That Little Baby Girl, Eloise Greenfield, ill. John Steptoe. Lippincott
- 1973 - Bear Mouse, Bernice Freschet, ill. Donald Carrick. Scribner's, and Harlequin and the Gift of Many Colors, Remy Charlip and Burton Supree. Parent's Magazine Press
- 1972 - Mouse Tales, Arnold Lobel. Harper & Row
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