The 2026 CLCSC Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2026 CLCSC Award Winners:
Outstanding Non-Fiction Picture Book
To Walk the Sky: How Iroquois Steelworkers Helped Build Towering Cities
written by Patricia Morris Buckley, illustrated by E.B. Lewis
Inspiring Non-Fiction Picture Book
Girls on the Rise by Amanda Gorman, Illustrated by Loveis Wise
Outstanding Juvenile Novel in Verse
A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez by Maria Dolores Águila
Myra Cohn Livingston Award for Poetry
Awesome Earth: Concrete Poems Celebrate Caves, Canyons, and Other Fascinating Landforms
by Joan Bransfield Graham, Illustrated by Tania Garcia
Peggy Miller Award for Young Adult Literature
I Wish I Didn’t Have to Tell You This written and illustrated by Eugene Yelchin
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Congratulations to the winners!
Thank you to the CLCSC Awards Committee for their hard work in selecting this year’s winners.
Save the date for the 2026 Awards Ceremony (formerly the Fall Gala)
Saturday, November 14, 2026, 11:00 am
The Lodge at Sierra Madre
33 E Sierra Madre Blvd
Sierra Madre, CA 91024
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The CLCSC Awards Committee convenes in January each year. Submissions of books published in the prior year may be sent directly to the Awards Chair for awards consideration. Please include an official submission form with each entry.