2017 Charlotte Zolotow Award
Awarded annually by the Cooperative Children's Book Center since 1998, the Charlotte Zolotow Award is given for outstanding writing in a picture book.
Ages: 0-7 years
Winners
Freedom in Congo Square
Carole Boston Weatherford
This story chronicles slaves' duties each day, from chopping logs on Mondays to baking bread on Wednesdays to plucking hens on Saturday, and builds to the freedom of Sundays and the special experience of an afternoon spent in Congo Square.
Shortlist
Thunder Boy Jr.
Sherman Alexie
Giant Squid
Candace Fleming
Alan's Big, Scary Teeth
Peter Jarvis
Daniel Finds a Poem
Micha Archer
Hannah and Sugar
Kate Berube
A Bike Like Sergio's
Maribeth Boelts
Maybe Something Beautiful
F. Isabel Campoy and Theresa Howell
Blocks
Irene Dickson
My New Mom & Me
Renata Galindo
The Sound of Silence
Katrina Goldsaito
The Cow Who Climbed a Tree
Gemma Merino
School’s First Day of School
Adam Rex
The Princess and the Warrior
Duncan Tonatiuh
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Award Winners and Other Booklists
- Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award
- Caldecott Medal
- Charlotte Zolotow Award
- Coretta Scott King Book Award – Illustrator
- First Nation Communities READ: PMC Indigenous Literature Award - Children's
- Forest of Reading – The Blue Spruce Award
- Governor General's Literary Award: Young People’s Literature – Illustrated Books
- Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award
- Toronto Public Library - First and Best