2020 Paterson Prize Books for Young People Winners

Congratulations to the winners of this year’s
Paterson Prize Books for Young People.

Grade K-3 Winner

Diana de Anda for Mango Moon (Albert Whitman & Co., Chicago, IL)

Grade 4-6 Winner

Padma Venkatraman for The Bridge Home (Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, New York, NY)

Grade 7-12 Winner

Torran Anderson for Piñata Moon (Look Out Behind You Books, Tucson, AZ)

Honor Books

Bailey Sisoy Isgro - Rosie, A Detroit Herstory (Wayne State University Press, Detroit, MI)

Lee Bennett Hopkins - I Am Someone Else: Poems About Pretending (Charlesbridge Publishing, Inc., Watertown, MA)

Deborah Hopkinson - Carter Reads the Newspaper (Peach Tree Publishing Company, Atlanta, GA)

Michael Bronski - A Queer History of the United States for Young People (Beacon Press, Boston, MA) 

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - An Indigenous People’s History of the United States for Young People (Beacon Press, Boston, MA)

C.J Farley - Around Harvard Square (Akashic Books, Brooklyn, NY)

For information about this prize, see the Poetry Center’s Contest & Awards page