^ cover of The Crayon Man -The True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons …winner of the 2020 Irma Black Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature.
WINNER OF THE 2020 IRMA BLACK AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
The Crayon Man -The True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons (nonfiction) written by Natascha Biebow & illustrated by Steven Salerno -published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019.
The Irma Simonton Black and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature (Irma Black Award) goes to an outstanding book for young children—a book in which text and illustrations are inseparable, each enhancing and enlarging on the other to produce a singular whole. The Irma Black Award is unusual in that children are the final judges of the winning book. Thousands of children in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and the United Arab Emirates participated in the voting process. Sadly, this year, the award ceremony scheduled for Thursday, May 14th 2020 was canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
See the illustrations from The Crayon Man, illustrated by Steven Salerno
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