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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