The following are the winners of the 2022 PATERSON PRIZE FOR BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE listed by grade levels.
Grade Pre K - 3
Hunter Liguore, The Whole World Inside Nan ’s Soup (Yeehoo Press , La Habra, CA)
Joyce Sidman, Hello Earth! Poems to our Planet (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, Grand Rapids, MI)
Grade 4 - 6
Alda P. Dobbs, Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna (Sourcebooks Young Readers, Naperville, IL)
Elizabeth Goss, My Way West: Real Kids Traveling the Oregon & California Trails (West Margin Press, Berkeley, CA)
Grade 7 - 12
María José Ferrada, Niños: Poems for the Lost Children of Chile (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, Grand Rapids, MI)
Joseph Rael & David R. Kopacz, Becoming Who You Are: Beautiful Painted Arrow’s Life &
Lessons for Children ages 10-100 (Condor & Eagle Press, Seattle, WA)
