And the awards go to...

The Children's Book Committee of Bank Street College is proud to announce our 2014 award winners. Congratulations and heartfelt thanks to these authors and illustrators for your wonderful contributions to children's literature!

Josette Frank Award for fiction

Rose Under Fire

by Elizabeth Wein

(Disney/Hyperion)

Flora Stieglitz Straus Award for nonfiction

Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909

by Michelle Markel, illustrated by Melissa Sweet

(Belzer+Bray/HarperCollins)

Claudia Lewis Award for poetry






















What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms & Blessings 
by Joyce Sidman 
illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)