From: Lbhcove at aol.com <Lbhcove>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 16:38:28 EST

Penn State University sponsors The Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award. an annual award given to a book of poetry
  The winner: JAZZ by Walter Dean Myers (Holiday House). Myers is the first poet to win the award twice.
  Three Honor Books cited are:
  BEHOLD THE BOLD UMBRELLAPHANT (Greenwillow Books)
  THE BRAID by Helen Frost (FS&G)
  TOUR AMERICA by Diane Siebert (Chronicle Books)
 
  The Lee Bennett Hopkins/International Reading Association Promising New Poet Award given every three years goes to:
  Joyce Lee Wong for SEEING EMILY (Abrams)
 
_www.leebennetthopkinsbooks.com_ (http://www.leebennetthopkinsbooks.com/)

Behind the Museum Door: Poems to Celebrate the Wonders of Museums
(Abrams, 2007)
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