Lupine Award

The Lupine Award was is presented annually by the Youth Services Section of the Maine Library Association to recognize an outstanding contribution to children’s literature of Maine. In granting this award, members of the Lupine Award committee seek to encourage the reading, writing, and appreciation of children’s books and to foster pride in the State of Maine. The Lupine Award is designed to honor a living author or illustrator who is a resident of Maine, or who has created a work whose focus is Maine as shown through the work’s characterization, plot or setting.

2011	Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade by Melissa Sweet
2010	Many Hands: A Penobscot Indian Story by Angeli Perrow
2009	The Circus Ship by Chris Van Dusen
2008	A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams by Jennifer Bryant
2007	Velma Gratch & the Way Cool Butterfly by Alan Madison
2006	For You are a Kenyan Child by Kelly Cunane
2005	A Kick in the Head by Paul b. Janeczko
2004	The Race to Save the Lord God Bird by Phillip Hoose
2003	The Water Gift and the Pig of the Pig by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
2002	Becoming Joe Dimaggio by Maria Testa
2001	Following Fake Man by Barbara Ware Holmes
2000	The Truth About Great White Sharks by Mary M. Cerullo
1999	Seal Island School by Susan Bartlett
1998	Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
1997	Marven of the Great North Woods by Kathryn Lasky
1996	Grandmother Bryant’s Pocket by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
1995	A Year on Monhegan Island by Julia Dean
1994	Prize in the Snow by Bill Easterling	?
1993	Wild Fox by Cherie Mason
1992	Sing to the Sun by Ashley Bryan
1991	Rosebud and Red Flannel by Ethel Pochocki	?
1990	Hattie and the Wild Waves by Barbara Cooney
1989	Brickyard Summer by Paul Janeczko	?