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'Welcome to the Wonder House' wins 2024 Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State University Libraries and the Pennsylvania Center for the Book have announced the 2024 Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, presented annually to an American poet or anthologist for the most outstanding new book of poetry for children published in the previous calendar year.
This year’s winner is “Welcome to the Wonder House,” written by Rebecca Kai Dotlich and Georgia Heard, illustrated by Deborah Freedman, and published by Wordsong, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers.
“‘Welcome to the Wonder House’ was a standout from the moment we read it,” said one judge.
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“The language and illustrations beautifully complement each other, which makes the book an absolute delight. The book of poetry divides the house into rooms that explore different STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) topics.
The language of the book allowed me to visualize and reimagine m