2009 Charlotte Zolotow Award

The winner of the 2009 Charlotte Zolotow Award is How to Heal a Broken Wing by Bob Graham (Candlewick). Five Honor Books were named: How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz (FSG); How Mama Brought the Spring by Fran Manushkin, illus. by Holly Berry (Dutton); In a Blue Room by Jim Averbeck, illus. by Tricia Tusa (Houghton Mifflin); A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams by Jen Bryant, illus. by Melissa Sweet (Eerdmans); and Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad by James Rumford (Roaring Brook/Porter). The award is given for outstanding writing in a picture book published in the U.S. and is named to honor the work of the distinguished children's book editor and author Charlotte Zolotow.