It’s Nationwide Poetry Month, and what higher technique to have fun than to share a few of our favourite books!
There are sooo many good poetry books for teenagers on the market, that I believe we’ll slender it down first by sharing all of the winners over time that Poetry has been a class right here on the Cybils Awards.
To see the finalists of the final 15 years, click on on any yr on the backside of the house web page, then choose “Poetry” from the class menu.
Butterfly Eyes and Different Secrets and techniques of the Meadow
by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Beth Krommes
Houghton Mifflin
2006 Poetry Winner
This Is Simply to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness
by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski
Houghton Mifflin
2007 Poetry Winner
Honeybee
by Naomi Shihab Nye
HarperCollins
2008 Poetry Winner
Purple Sings from Treetops: A 12 months in Colours
by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2009 Poetry Winner
Mirror Mirror: A E book of Reversible Verse
by Marilyn Singer, illustrated by Josée Masse
Dutton Books for Younger Readers
2010 Poetry Winner
Requiem: Poems of the Terezin Ghetto
by Paul B. Janeczko
Candlewick
2011 Poetry Winner
BookSpeak!: Poems About Books
by Laura Purdie Salas, illustrated by Josée Bisaillon
Clarion Books
2012 Poetry Winner
Forest Has a Track: Poems
by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, illustrated by Robbin Gourley
Clarion Books
2013 Poetry Winner
Voices from the March on Washington
by J. Patrick Lewis and George Ella Lyon
WordSong
2014 Poetry Winner
Flutter and Hum / Aleteo y Zumbido: Animal Poems / Poemas de Animales
by Julie Paschkis
Henry Holt and Co.
2015 Poetry Winner
The Final Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary
by Laura Shovan
Yearling
2016 Poetry Winner
I’m Simply No Good at Rhyming: And Different Nonsense for Mischievous Children and Immature Grown-Ups
by Chris Harris, illustrated by Lane Smith
Little, Brown Books for Younger Readers
2017 Poetry Winner
Lengthy Method Down
by Jason Reynolds
Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
2018 Poetry Winner
Ink Is aware of No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Expertise
Edited by Patrice Vecchione and Alyssa Raymond
Triangle Sq.
2019 Poetry Winner
** Poetry was on hiatus in 2020 as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.
All over the place Blue
Joanne Rossmassler Fritz
Vacation Home
2021 Poetry Winner