Showing 1–3 of 3 titles

• Audience: All Ages
• List: John Newbery Medal
• Genre: Poetry

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  Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom

  By Carole Boston Weatherford (Author), Michele Wood (Illustrator)

  The true story of Henry “Box” Brown, who shipped himself to freedom in a box, is told in 51 emotionally intense poems that have implications for the present day.

  • Poetry, Biography
  • John Newbery Medal 2021 (Honor Title), Notable Children's Books 2021
  • All Ages
  • ISBN: 9780763691561
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  Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night

  By Joyce Sidman, Rick Allen (Illustrator)

  Welcoming her readers into the “wild, enchanted park” that is the night, Joyce Sidman has elegantly crafted twelve poems rich in content and varied in format. Companion prose pieces about nocturnal flora and fauna are as tuneful and graceful as the poems. This collection is “a feast of sound and spark.”

  • Nonfiction, Poetry
  • John Newbery Medal 2011 (Honor Title)
  • All Ages
  • ISBN: 9780547152288
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  The Undefeated

  By Kwame Alexander, Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)

  Alexander's poetry and Nelson's illustration pair wonderfully in this stunning ode to the courage and strength of African Americans.

  • Nonfiction, History, Poetry
  • John Newbery Medal 2020 (Honor Title), Notable Children's Books 2020, Randolph Caldecott Medal 2020 (Medal Winner)
  • All Ages
  • ISBN: 9781328780966