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Literary Award Winners at HCTC Libraries

Award Winners (2010-Present)

Big

2024

Hot Dog

2023

Watercress

2022

We Are Water Protectors

2021

The Undefeated

2020

Hello Lighthouse

2019

Wolf in the Snow

2018

Radiant Child

2017

Finding Winnie

2016

The Adventures of Beekle: the Unimaginary Friend

2015

Locomotive

2014

This Is Not My Hat

2013

A Ball for Daisy

2012

A Sick Day for Amos Mcgee

2011

The Lion and the Mouse

2010

Award Winners (2000-2009)

The House in the Night

2009

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

2008

Flotsam

2007

The Hello, Goodbye Window

2006

Kitten's First Full Moon

2005

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

2004

My Friend Rabbit

2003

The Three Pigs

2002

So You Want to Be President?

2001

Joseph Had a Little Overcoat

2000

Award Winners (1990-1999)

Snowflake Bentley

1999

Rapunzel

1998

Golem

1997

Officer Buckle and Gloria

1996

Smoky Night

1995

Grandfather's Journey

1994

Mirette on the High Wire

1993

Tuesday

1992

Black and White

1991

Lon Po Po

1990

Award Winners (Prior to 1990)

1989
- Song and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman
1988
- Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
1987
- Hey, Al by Arthur Yorinks
1986
- The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
1985
- Saint George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges
1984
- The Glorious Flight : Across the Channel with Louis Blériot by Alice and Martin Provensen
1983
- Shadow by Blaise Cendrars
1982
- Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
1981
- Fables by Arnold Lobel
1980
- Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall
1979
- The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble
1978
- Noah's Ark by Peter Spier
1977
- Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions by Margaret Musgrove
1976
- Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Verna Aardema
1975
- Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale by Gerald McDermott
1974
- Duffy and the Devil by Harve Zemach
1973
- The Funny Little Woman by Arlene Mosel
1972
- One Fine Day by Nonny Hogrogian
1971
- A Story, a Story: An African Tale by Gail E. Haley
1970
- Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
1969
- The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship by Arthur Ransome
1968
- Drummer Hoff by Barbara Emberley
1967
- Sam, Bangs & Moonshine by Evaline Ness
1966
- Always Room for One More by Sorche Nic Leodhas
1965
- May I Bring a Friend? by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
1964
- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
1963
- The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
1962
- Once a Mouse... by Marcia Brown
1960
- Nine Days to Christmas by Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida
1958
- Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey
1957
- A Tree is Nice by Janice Udry
1956
- Frog Went A-Courtin' by John Langstaff
1955
- Cinderella: Or, the Little Glass Slipper by Charles Perrault
1951
- The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous
1950
- Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi
1949
- The Big Snow by Berta and Elmer Hader
1948
- White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt
1947
- The Little Island by Margaret Wise Brown
1943
- The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
1942
- Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
1940
- Abraham Lincoln by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
1939
- Mei Li by Thomas Handforth