Winner of the Lion and the Unicorn Award Announced

JonArno Lawson is the winner of the third annual Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry for Black Stars in a White Night Sky (Pedlar Press, 2006). The book is illustrated by Sherwin Tjia. Visit the Johns Hopkins University Press website for a list of the honour books and to read an essay by the judges.

The The Lion and the Unicorn journal is “of international scope committed to a serious, ongoing discussion of literature for children. The journal's coverage includes the state of the publishing industry, comparative studies of significant books, developments in theory, the art of illustration, and popular culture.”