NCTE Award for Poetry for Children

2003 Award Winner

Mary Ann Hoberman

Mary Ann Hoberman is the 13th winner of the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. 

She is a poet and the critically acclaimed author of many books for children, including the beloved A House Is a House for Me, which won a National Book Award. She was also the editor of the poetry anthology My Song Is Beautiful: Poems and Pictures in Many Voices. Mary Ann gives readings in libraries and schools, and her poems are included in countless anthologies.

Mary Ann was honored at the Books for Children Luncheon with a plaque and bookmark (PDF)  as well as presented a poetry session during the NCTE Annual Convention in San Francisco, California.

View the 2003 Poetry Poster celebrating Mary Ann courtesy of Little Brown and Company and Harcourt.  (PDF)

Read "A Poem Is a House for Words: NCTE Profiles Mary Ann Hoberman" by Shirley Ernst and Amy McClure which appeared in Language Arts, Volume 81, Number 3 in January, 2004.  (PDF)

Visit Mary Ann's website at: www.maryannhoberman.com

Children's Books by Mary Ann Hoberman:

All My Shoes Come in Two’s. Little, Brown, 1957. Illustrated by Norman Hoberman. 

How Do I Go? Little, Brown, 1958. Illustrated by Norman Hoberman.

Hello and Good-by. Little, Brown, 1959. Illustrated by Norman Hoberman.

What Jim Knew. Little, Brown, 1963. Illustrated by Norman Hoberman.

Not Enough Beds for the Babies. Little Brown, 1965. Illustrated by Helen Spyer.

A Little Book of Little Beasts. Simon & Schuster, 1973. Illustrated by Peter Parnall.

The Raucous Auk. Viking, 1973. Illustrated by Joseph Low.

The Looking Book. Knopf, 1973. Illustrated by Jerry Joyner.

Nuts to You and Nuts to Me. Knopf, 1974. Illustrated by Ronni Solbert.

I Like Old Clothes. Knopf, 1976. Illustrated by Jacqueline Chwast.

Bugs. Viking, 1976. Illustrated by Victoria Chess.

A House is a House for Me. Viking, 1978. Illustrated by Betty Fraser.

Yellow Butter, Purple Jelly, Red Jam, Black Bread. Viking, 1981. Illustrated by Chaya Burstein.

The Cozy Book. Viking, 1982. Illustrated by Tony Chen.

Mr. and Mrs. Muddle. Joy Street/Little, Brown, 1988. Illustrated by Catherine O’Neill.

A Fine Fat Pig. Harper, 1991. Illustrated by Malcah Zeldis.

Fathers, Mothers, Sisters, Brothers. Joy Street/Little, Brown, 1991. Illustrated by Marilyn Hafner.

My Song is Beautiful. Little, Brown, 1994. Edited by MAH. Various illustrators.

The Seven Silly Eaters. Browndeer Press/Harcourt, 1997. Illustrated by Marla Frazee.

One of Each. Megan Tingley Books/Little, Brown, 1997. Illustrated by Marjorie Priceman.

The Llama Who Had No Pajama. Browndeer Press/Harcourt, 1998. Illustrated by Betty Fraser.

Miss Mary Mack. Megan Tingley Books/Little, Brown, 1998. Illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott.

And To Think That We Thought We Would Never Be Friends. Crown, 1999. Illustrated by Kevin Hawkes.

The Eensy-Weensy Spider. Megan Tingley Books/Little, Brown, 2000. Illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott.

The Two Sillies. Harcourt, 2000. Illustrated by Lynne Cravath.

Michael Finnegan. Megan Tingley Books/Little, Brown, 2001. Illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott.

It’s Simple, Said Simon. Crown, 2001. Illustrated by Meilo So.

You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You. Megan Tingley Books/Little Brown, 2001. Illustrated by Michael Emberley.

The Looking Book. Megan Tingley Books/Little, Brown, 2002. Illustrated by Laura Huliska-Beith.

Bill Grogan’s Goat. Megan Tingley Books/Little, Brown, 2002. Illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott.

The Marvelous Mouse Man. Harcourt, 2002. Illustrated by Laura Forman.