Congratulations, 2020 Excellence in Graphic Literature Award Winners!

A couple of days ago, Pop Culture Classroom announced the Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards, even as they had to postpone the Denver Pop Culture Con to November. I was proud and honored to serve as Assistant Chair for the Middle Grades Award Jury. Below you will see the complete list of winners (with links to ones I have reviewed), though I plan to highlight some of the other notable submissions I read in the next few weeks.

Congratulations to all the winners and to PCC for another great year!

2020 Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards Winners

Book of the Year

• White Bird: A Wonder Story by R. J. Palacio (Random House Children’s Books)

Mosaic Award

• Kiss Number 8 by Colleen AF Venable and Ellen T. Crenshaw (First Second)

Best in Children’s Graphic Literature

• Fiction – Akissi: More Tales of Mischief by Marguerite Abouet & Mathieu Sapin (Flying Eye Books)

Best Middle Grade Graphic Literature

• Fiction – White Bird: A Wonder Story by R. J. Palacio (Random House Children’s Books)
• Nonfiction – Guts by Raina Telgemeier (Scholastic)

Best in Young Adult Graphic Literature

• Fiction – Kiss Number 8 by Colleen AF Venable and Ellen T. Crenshaw (First Second)
• Nonfiction – King of King Court by Travis Dandro (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best in Adult Graphic Literature

• Fiction – The Hard Tomorrow by Eleanor Davis (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Nonfiction – A Fire Story by Brian Fries (ABRAMS Books)

2019 Excellence in Graphic Literature Winners!

This past weekend I was proud and glad to attend the 2019 Denver Pop Culture Con. I served on the jury for the Middle Grades category of the Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards, presented by Pop Culture Classroom, and I am very grateful for the opportunity.

Here is the entire list of winners:

·       2019 Book of the Year: Berlin by Jason Lutes (Drawn & Quarterly)

·       2019 Mosaic Award: The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang (First Second)

·       2019 Best in Educational Comics: Adult, Nonfiction: Monk by Youssef Daoudi (First Second)

·       2019 Best in Educational Comics: Adult, Fiction: Berlin by Jason Lutes (Drawn & Quarterly)

·       2019 Best in Educational Comics: Young Adult, Nonfiction: Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Scholastic)

·       2019 Best in Educational Comics: Young Adult, Fiction: Illegal by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Dorkin (Sourcebooks)

·       2019 Best in Educational Comics: Middle-Grade, Nonfiction: The Faithful Spy by John Hendrix (Abrams Comic Arts)

·       2019 Best in Educational Comics: Middle-Grade, Fiction: Crush by Svetlana Chmakova (Yen Press)

·       2019 Best in Educational Comics: Children, Nonfiction: The Eye That Never Sleeps by Marissa Moss and Jeremy Holmes (Abrams Comic Arts)

·       2019 Best in Educational Comics: Children, Fiction: Tiger vs. Nightmare by Emily Titri (First Second)

Congratulations to all the winners!

There were so many great books that I will spend the rest of the month highlighting some of the ones I found exceptional. Stay tuned for more tomorrow!