CLC Award Celebration

Save the date! October 2, 2026! 

CLC Book Award Celebration 2025

• Past CLC Book Award Recipients

  **Click on an author's name to visit their website!

   

  2024 Award Recipient

  I Know How to Send a Hug
  Author: Hayley Rocco

   

  2023 Award Recipient

  The More You Give
  Author: Marcy Campbell 

  

  2022 Award Recipient

  If You Miss Me
  Author: Jocelyn Li Langrand

   

  2021 Award Recipient

  No award recipient due to Covid-19 pandemic

  2020 Award Recipient

  The Box Turtle
  Author: Vanessa Roeder

   

  2019 Award Recipient

  Drawn Together
  Author: Minh Le  

                        

  2018 Award Recipient

  Ida, Always
  Author: Caron Levis
  

  Illustrator: Charles Santoso

  

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  2017 Award Recipient

  The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles
  Author: Michelle Cuevas
  Illustrator: Illustrator: Erin Stead

  

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  2016 Award Recipient

  Stick and Stone
  Author: Beth Ferry
  Illustrator: Tom Lichtenheld

  
  

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  2015 Award Recipient

  Otto the Owl Who Loved Poetry
  Author Vern Kousky

  

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  2014 Award Recipient

  Joone
  Author: Emily Kate Moon

  

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  2013 Award Recipient

  Too Tall Houses
  Author: Gianna Marino
  

  

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  2012 Award Recipient

  Same, Same but Different
  Author: Jenny Sue-Kostecki Shaw

  

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