The
​Charlotte Zolotow Award

​Registration is open for the 2020 and 2021-22 Charlotte Zolotow Award Celebration.  This in-person only event will be held at Union South on the UW-Madison campus from 2:00 to 4:00pm on Saturday, May 21st.

​Please join us as authors Cheryl Minnema (Johnny’s Pheasant, 2020 Zolotow winner) and Meg Medina (Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away, 2021-22 Zolotow winner) receive their awards.  As well as hearing from the winning authors, the Honor Books and Highly Commended titles from both years will be recognized.

Online registration is required and space is limited, so don’t delay! This event is in-person only; remote access is not available.
 
A reception and book signing will follow the award presentation.

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The Charlotte Zolotow Award

A distinguished and prolific author and editor of children’s books, the work of Charlotte Zolotow (June 26, 1915-November 19, 2013) offered even the youngest children an unsentimental  but compassionate view of topics like anger, envy and death.  Authentic, sensual, kind, and sometimes funny, she never condescended to the emotional lives of her young readers, nor did she diminish the problems, large and small, they faced. 

The Charlotte Zolotow Award is given annually to the author of the best picture book text published in the United States in the preceding year. Established in 1998, the award is named to honor the work of Charlotte Zolotow, a distinguished children's book editor for 38 years with Harper Junior Books, and author of more than 70 picture books, including such classic works as Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present (Harper, 1962) and William's Doll (Harper, 1972). Ms. Zolotow attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison on a writing scholarship from 1933-36 where she studied with Professor Helen C. White.

​The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.
Virginia Hamilton