2001 Winner:

Light-Gathering Poems by Liz Rosenberg

The 2001 winner was Liz Rosenberg for the anthology Light-Gathering Poems (Henry Holt & Company, Inc.), a collection featuring authors such as Dickinson, Frost, Stafford and Keats. Rosenberg arranged the poems alphabetically and included biographical notes for those who wish to learn more about a poet or poem in the anthology.

The judges explained their selection of Light-Gathering Poems with the words “expansive, beautiful, classical, great choices, accessible—just the kind of poems to turn children on to the music and sound of the words.” One judge remarked, “This is the kind of book I could see a young person keeping and cherishing and returning to over and over again.”