The CLPE Poetry Award
The CLPE (Centre for Literacy in Primary Education) Poetry Award, like the Signal Award, aims to honour excellence in children’s poetry. It was established in 2003 and will be presented annually in May/June for a book of poetry published in the preceding year. The book can be a single-poet collection, an anthology, an important critical work about children’s poetry, or the body of work of one contemporary poet writing for children.
2009- The Young Inferno by John Agard, illustrated by Satoshi Kitamura, Frances Lincoln
- 2008
- Red, Cherry Red by Jackie Kay
- 2007
- The Thing That Mattered Most. Scottish Poems for Children Julie Johnstone (editor), illustrated by Iain McIntosh, Scottish Poetry Library/Black & White Publishing
- 2006
- Why does my mum always iron a crease in my jeans? edited by Fiona Waters
- 2005
- Sensational! Poems inspired by the five senses edited by Roger McGough
- 2004
- All the Best. Selected Poems Roger McGough
- 2003
- Under the moon and over the sea John Agard and Grace Nichols