Jane Yolen wins the 2008 CLAUDIA LEWIS AWARD

The Claudia Lewis Award, given for the first time in 1998, honors the late Claudia Lewis, distinguished children's book expert and longtime member of the Bank Street College faculty and Children's Book Committee. She conveyed her love and understanding of poetry with humor and grace. The award is given for the best poetry book of the year.

Here's a Little Poem: A Very First Book of Poetry collected by Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters, illustrated by Polly Dunbar(Candlewick Press) has been chosen as the 2008 winner.

Dan San Souci wins a BLUE HEN BOOK AWARD

The Blue Hen Book Award is a children's choice award sponsored by the Children's Services Division of the Delaware Library Association. Each year children have the opportunity to vote on selected picture or chapter books published in the last year. The book that receives the most votes in each category will win the Blue Hen Book Award.

Children voting on books nominated by the Delaware Library Association's Children's Services Division picked three stories as winners of the Association's Blue Hen Book Awards. They include picture book winner: "Space Station Mars" by BookArtist Daniel San Souci (Tricycle Press).