You’ve held high standards of artistic excellence AND encouraged writers and illustrators who want to talk about the world that real children inhabit, even if it’s a pretty broken world that fills those pages.
What could possibly be more important in today’s literature than a book that a child could pick up, read, and come away saying, 'I can grow too'?
[1][3] The prize to the author of the book has been provided by the Florence L. Miller Memorial Fund.
The Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, established in 1994, is presented to "a distinguished work of nonfiction that serves as an inspiration to young people."
The Claudia Lewis Award, given for the first time in 1998, honors the best poetry book of the year.