Mt. Lebanon Public Library
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

         The Carolyn W. Field Award

Presented yearly by the Youth Services Division of the Pennsylvania Library Association 
to recognize the best books for young people by a Pennsylvania author or illustrator.


  2004 Jerry Spinelli, author
(Alfred A. Knopf)
Elvira Woodruff, author
(Scholastic Press)

Milkweed
 
The Ravenmaster's Secret
  2003 Judith Byron Schachner
(Dutton)
Yo, Vikings!
  2002 Susan Campbell Bartoletti, author
(Houghton Mifflin)
Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845- 1850

 

2001 Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard, author
(Simon & Schuster)
Virgie Goes to School with us Boys

 

2000

Laurie Halse Anderson, author
(Farrar Strauss Giroux)

Elvira Woodruff, author
(Scholastic)

Speak


The Memory Coat

 

1999 Nancy Springer, author
(Philomel)
I Am Mordred

 

1998 Jerry Spinelli, author
(Harper Collins)
Wringer

 

1997 Susan Campbell Bartoletti, author
(Houghton Mifflin)
Growing Up in Coal Country

 

1996 Susan Wojciechowski, author
(Candlewick)
The Christmas Miracle
of Jonathan Toomey

 

1995 Marjorie Priceman, 
author & illustrator
(Knopf)
How to Make an Apple Pie and 
See the World

 

1994 Peter Catalanotto, illustrator
(Orchard)
Dreamplace

 

1993 Megan McDonald, author
(Orchard)
The Great Pumpkin Switch

 

1992 Sally Keehn, author
(Philomel)
I am Regina

 

1991 Jerry Spinelli, author
(Little, Brown)
Maniac Magee

 

1990 William T. George, author &
Lindsay Barrett George, illustrator
(Greenwillow)
Box Turtle at Long Pond

 

1989 Steven Schindler, illustrator Catwings

 

1988 Deborah Kogan Ray, illustrator Little Tree

 

1987 Lloyd Alexander, author The Illyrian Adventure

 

1986 Fred Rogers, author The New Baby

 

1985 Margeret Hodges, author St. George and the Dragon

 

1984 Karen Gundersheimer, illustrator Some Things Go Together

 

 

A distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania, Carolyn Wicker Field retired in 1983 from 
the Free Library of Philadelphia where she served as a Coordinator of Work with Children for thirty years.