Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice Award
1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019, and 2021
This award was established to honor Anne Izard, the noted librarian, storyteller and Children’s Services Consultant in Westchester County (NY) who died in 1990. It is hoped the award will highlight and promote distinguished titles published in the field of storytelling and in doing so, bring the many riches of storytelling itself to a much greater public recognition.
17 Biennial Anne Izard Awards Ceremony – Wednesday, September 16th, 2026 at the Westchester Library System conference room
The Ceremony is open to the public. More information to come.
Books considered for the Seventeenth Award were original material, reprints, or new English translations published in the United States from July 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025. Winners Are:
Becoming Baba Yaga: Trickster, Feminist and Witch of the Woods by Kris Spisak ( Hampton Roads)
Call Me Roberto: Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos by Nathalie Alonso (Calkin Creek)
Celtic Fairy Tales and Legends by Rosalind Kerven (Batsford Books)
Feisty Cinderella by Margaret Read MacDonald, Jen Whitman and Nat Whitman (Tellable Tales)
Fish of Small Wishes by Elana K. Arnold (Roaring Brokk Press)
Go Forth and Tell: the Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller by Breanna J. McDaniel (Dial Books)
Go Tell It: How James Baldwin Became a Writer by Quartez Harris (Little Brown Books)
Greedy Wolf by Timothy Knapman (Candlewick Press)
Lighthouse and the Little Boat by Katie Frawley ( Quill Tree Books)
Littlest Drop by Sascha Alper (Anne Schwartz Books)
Old Clothes for Dinner by Nathalie Alonso (Barefoot Books)
Song of the Raven: an Inuit Tale of Harmony With Nature by Amanda Hall( Wisdom Books.)
Tea With an Old Giant by Jane Yolen ( Reycraft Books)
2021 Annotations
2019 Anne Izard Awards Ceremony
Anne Izard 2019 Winners
Cumulative Lists of Winners
Cumulative list of story collections
Cumulative list of single stories
Cumulative list of philosophical books
Cumulative list of applied storytelling