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Friday, February 17, 2017

2017 Winner: SOMOS COMO LAS NUBES/WE ARE LIKE THE CLOUDS

The 2017 winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award is:

Argueta, Jorge. 2016. Somos como las nubes/We are Like the Clouds. Toronto: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press. 




Jama Rattigan features this book in a lovely post here

In addition, an honor book was selected-- Garvey's Choice by Nikki Grimes (Boyds Mills Press/Wordsong, 2016).