Carolyn Field Award

“The Carolyn W. Field Award was established by the Youth Services Division of the Pennsylvania Library Association to recognize the best books for young people by a Pennsylvania author or illustrator each year.”

Year Call Number Author / Illustrator Title

2006 YA Susan Campbell Bartoletti Hitler Youth

2005 jE Eileen Spinelli Do You Have a Hat?

2004 jFIC Jerry Spinelli Milkweed

2004 jFIC Elvira Woodruff The Ravenmaster’s Secret

2003 jE Judith Byron Schachner Yo, Vikings!

2002 j941.5 Susan Campbell Bartoletti Black Potatoes

2001 jFIC Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys

2000 FIC YA Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

2000 Elvira Woodruff The Memory Coat

1999 jFIC Nancy Springer I Am Mordred: A Tale from Camelot

1998 jFIC Jerry Spinelli Wringer

1997 j331.3 Susan Campbell Bartoletti Growing up in Coal Country

1996 jE Susan Wojciechowski The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey

1995 jE Margorie Priceman How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World

1994 jE George Ella Lyon, author Dreamplace

Peter Catalanotto, illustrator
1993 jE Megan McDonald The Great Pumpkin Switch

1992 jFIC Sally Keehn I Am Regina

1991 jFIC Jerry Spinelli Maniac Magee

1990 jE William T.George, author Box Turtle at Long Pond

Lindsay Barrett George, illustrator
1989 jFIC Le Guin, Ursula, author Catwings

Steven Schindler, illustrator
1988 jE e. e. cummings, author Little Tree

Deborah Kogan Ray, illustrator
1987 jFIC Lloyd Alexander The Illyrian Adventure

1986 jE Fred Rogers The New Baby

1985 j398.2 Margaret Hodges Saint George and the Dragon

1984 Karen Gundersheimer, illustrator Some Things Go Together