February 14, 2020
“Johnny’s Pheasant,” written by Cheryl Minnema and Illustrated by Julie Flett, is the winner of the 23rd annual Charlotte Zolotow Award for outstanding writing in a picture book. The book was edited by Erik Anderson and published in 2019 by the University of Minnesota Press. The award is given by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC), a library of UW–Madison's School of Education.