Lupine Award

The Lupine Award is a literary prize given annually by the Maine Library Association to a living author or illustrator. The prize can be given to a living illustrator or author who was born in or who resides in Maine for all or part of the year, or has created work with a characterization, plot, or setting that is focused on Maine. The prize has been awarded annually since 1993. Since 2005, separate prizes have been awarded, one to a picture book and the other to a juvenile or young adult book.[1][2][3]

Beginning in 1989, the Youth Services Section Interest Group of the Maine Library Association has been presenting the award. One winner and one honoree in two categories, picture book and juvenile/young adult, are given the award.[4]

Juvenile/Young Adult Winners

Year Winner Honorable Mentions
2021
2020 Call Me American (Adapted for Young Adults) The Extraordinary True Story of a Young Somali Immigrant by Abdi Nor Iftin Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk
2019 Searching for Lottie by Susan Ross American Trailblazers: 50 Remarkable People who Shaped U.S. History by Lisa Trusiani, illustrated by Pau Morgan, Toby Newsome, Cecilia Puglesi
2018 The Mad Wolf's Daughter by Diane Magras What the Wind Can Tell You by Sarah Marie A. Jette
2017 Grit by Gillian French Who Killed Darius Drake? by Rodman Philbrick
2016 Some Writer! The Story of E.B. White by Melissa Sweet Wrecked by Maria Padian
2015 Paper Things by Jennifer Richard Jacobson The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pederson and the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose
2014 Zane and the Hurricane:  A Story of Katrina by Rodman Philbrick Half a Chance by Cynthia Lord
2013 Out of Nowhere by Maria Padian The Water Castle by Megan Frazer Blakemore
2012 The Good Braider by Terry Farish Giant Squid: Searching for a Sea Monster by Mary M. Cerullo and Clyde F. E. Roper
2011 Small As an Elephant by Jennifer Richard Jacobson Lost Trail:  Nine Days Alone in the Wilderness by Donn Fendler and Lynn Plourde, illustrator Ben Bishop
2010 Touch Blue by Cynthia Lord Henry Aaron's Dream written and illustrated by Matt Tavares
2009 The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick Stitches:  A Memoir written and illustrated by David Small
2008 Season of Ice by Diane Les Becquets Brett McCarthy:  Work in Progress by Maria Padian
2007 Dragon's Egg by Sarah Thomson Rickshaw Girl by Matali Perkins, Illustrator Jamie Hogan
2006 Kristin's Wilderness:  A Braided Trail by Garrett Conover Berenice Abbott, Photographer; an Independent Vision by George Sullivan
2005 Stained by Jennifer Richard Jacobson Stained by Jennifer Richard Jacobson
2004 The Race to Save the Lord God Bird by Phillip Hoose Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
2003 The Water Gift and the Pig of the Pig by Jacqueline Briggs Martin, illustrator Linda S. Wingerter A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee written and illustrated by Chris Van Dusen

Swan Harbor written and illustrated by Laura Rankin

Timberrr!: A History of Logging in New England by Mary Morton Cowan

2002 Becoming Joe DiMaggio by Maria Testa Bloody Jack by L. A Meyer

Just Ducky written and illustrated by Kathy Mallat

The Sea Chest by Toni Buzzeo illustrated by Marie Grand Pre

2001 Following Fake Man by Barbara Ware Holmes Racing the Past by Sis Deans

Turtle Splash by Cathryn Falwell

The Lobster War by Ethan Howland

2000 The Truth about Great White Sharks by Mary M. Cerullo, photographer Jeffery L. Rotman The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick
1999 Seal Island School by Susan Bartlett, illustrator Tricia Tusa The Hermit Thrush Sings by Susan Butler

Wild Child by Lynn Plourde, illustrated by Greg Couch

1998 Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin, illustrator Mary Azarian Painters of the Caves by Patricia Lauber
1997 Marven of the Great North Woods by Kathryn Lasky, illustrator Kevin Hawkes Cocoa Ice by Diana Appelbaum, illustrated by Holly Meade
1996 Grandmother Bryant's Pocket by Jacquelie Briggs Martin No Honorable Mention
1995 A Year on Monhegan Island by Julia Dean Night of the Pufflings written and photographed by Bruce McMillan

To Hold this Ground:  A Desperate Battle at Gettysburg by Susan Provost Beller

1994 Prize in the Snow by Bill Easterling, illustrator Mary Beth Owens No Honorable Mention
1993 Wild Fox by Cherie Mason, illustrator Jo Ellen McAllister Stammen No Honorable Mention
1992 Sing to the Sun written and illustrated by Ashley Bryan No Honorable Mention
1991 Rosebud and Red Flannel by Ethel Pochocki, illustrator Mary Beth Owens No Honorable Mention
1990 Hattie and the Wild Waves written and illustrated by Barbara Cooney No Honorable Mention
1989 Brickyard Summer by Paul Janeczko No Honorable Mention

Picture Book Winners

Year Winner Honorable Mentions
2021
2020 Magnificent Homespun Brown by Samara Cole Doyon, illustrated by Kaylani Juanita Chowder Rules! The True Story of an Epic Food Fight by Anna Redding Crowley, illustrated by Vita Lane
2019 Going Down Home with Daddy by Kelly Starling Lyons, illustrated by Daniel Minter Maybe Tomorrow? by Charlotte Agell, illustrated by Ana Ramirez González
2018 We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins There's a Dinosaur on the 13th Floor by Wade Bradford, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes
2017 Red and Lulu by Matt Tavares Baabwaa and Wooliam by David Elliott, illustrated by Melissa Sweet
2016 Freedom Over Me by Ashley Bryan Hotel Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins
2015 Island Birthday by Eva Murray, illustrator Jamie Hogan Growing Up Pedro by Matt Tavares
2014 The Right Word: Roget and his Thesaurus by Jen Bryant, illustrator Melissa Sweet Jubilee! One Man's Big, Bold and Very, Very Loud Celebration of Peace by Alicia Potter, illustrator Matt Tavares
2013 The Secret Pool by Kimberly Ridley, illustrator Rebekah Raye Brave Girl by Michelle Markel, illustrator Melissa Sweet
2012 Helen's Big World:  The Life of Helen Keller by Doreen Rappaport, illustrator Matt Tavares Eggs 1 2 3:  Who will the babies be?  by Janet Halfmann, illustrator Betsy Thompson
2011 Balloons over Broadway:  The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade written and illustrated by Melissa Sweet Sammy in the Sky by Barbara Walsh, illustrator Jamie Wyeth
2010 Many Hands:  A Penobscott Indian Story by Angeli Perrow, illustrator Heather Austin A Balloon for Isabel by Deborah Underwood, illustrator Laura Rankin
2009 The Circus Ship written and illustrated by Chris Van Dusen The Scallop Christmas by Jane Freeberg, illustrator Astrid Sheckels
2008 A River of Words:  The Story of William Carlos Williams by Jen Bryant, illustrator Melissa Sweet How Mama Brought the Spring by Fran Manushkin, illustrator Holly Berry
2007 Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly by Alan Madison, Illustrator Kevin Hawkes Sky Sweeper by Phillis Gershator, Illustrator Holly Meade
2006 For You Are a Kenyan Child by Kelly Cunnane, illustrator Ana Juan Max's Words by Kate Banks, illustrator Boris Kulikov
2005 A Kick in the Head:  An Everyday Guide to Poetic Form by Paul Janeczko, illustrator Chris Raschka Carmine:  A Little More Red written and illustrated by Melissa Sweet

References

  1. ^ "Lupine Award History". Maine Library Association. Maine Library Association. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  2. ^ Bird, Elizabeth (15 June 2012). "Top 100 Picture Books #13: Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney". School Library Journal. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  3. ^ Book About Monhegan Wins the Lupine Award, Portland Press Herald, 18 Apr 1996.
  4. ^ "Maine Library Association - Lupine Award". www.mainelibraries.org. Retrieved 2024-07-11.