Kristine O’Connell
George has received the following awards:
Lee Bennett
Hopkins Poetry Award
International
Reading Association/Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet
Award (This is awarded to a new poet that writes for
children and young adults
and who has published
no
more than two books.)
“Highly
Commended” Charlotte Zolotow Award
Cooperative Children’s Book
Center
Children’s
Book of the Year, Bank Street
College
Kentucky
Bluegrass and North Carolina Children’s Book Award Nominee
Myra Cohn Livingston Poetry Award CLCSC
Nominated
for the Texas Bluebonnet Master List and Indiana’s
Young Hoosier’s Award
Golden Kite
Award, Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators
Claudia
Lewis Poetry Award from Bank Street
College
Nominated
for South Dakota’s Prairie Bud Award
John Burroughs
Nature Award
The ASPCA
Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award
Kristine
O’Connell George has also been recognized by Hornbook, Booklinks, School Library Journal, Junior Library Guild, Creative Classroom, ALA
Booklists, New York Library, Chicago Library, and many other distinguished lists.
