
Melissa Sweet
56 Total Resources 2 Lifetime Achievement Awards 113 Total Book Awards 55 Books
Our Original Resources 8
Guest Blogger: Melissa Sweet “Unbound: The Life and Art of Judith Scott Virtual Book Tour”
Created by the TeachingBooks Blog
Guest Blogger: Melissa Sweet “Co-Creating a Picture Book Biography”
Created by the TeachingBooks Blog
Meet-the-Author Recording with Melissa Sweet about Unbound
Created by TeachingBooks
Meet-the-Illustrator Recording with Melissa Sweet about Firefly July
Created by TeachingBooks
Meet-the-Author Recording with Melissa Sweet about Balloons Over Broadway
Created by TeachingBooks
Meet-the-Author Recording with Melissa Sweet about Some Writer!
Created by TeachingBooks
Meet-the-Illustrator Recording with Melissa Sweet about A Splash of Red
Created by TeachingBooks
Audio Name Pronunciation with Melissa Sweet
Created by TeachingBooks
About the Author 1
Audio Name Pronunciation with Melissa Sweet
Created by TeachingBooks
Author Interviews 30
TeachingBooks Guest Blogger: Melissa Sweet “Unbound: The Life and Art of Judith Scott Virtual Book Tour”
Created by the TeachingBooks Blog
TeachingBooks Guest Blogger: Melissa Sweet “Co-Creating a Picture Book Biography”
Created by the TeachingBooks Blog

Interview with Melissa Sweet
Created by Art of the Picture Book
Seven Questions with Melissa Sweet
Created by Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Interview with Melissa Sweet about Girls Think of Everything
Created by Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb
Interview with Melissa Sweet about Little Red Writing
Created by Elizabeth Dulemba

Interview with Melissa Sweet about Signs of Hope
Created by Booklist Online

Illustrator interview with Melissa Sweet about Unbound
Created by Texas Bluebonnet Award

2012 Sibert Award Acceptance Speech given by Melissa Sweet about Balloons Over Broadway
Created by American Library Association

Sibert Award Acceptance Speech by Melissa Sweet about The Right Word
Created by Association for Library Service to Children - ALSC
Interview with Melissa Sweet about Unbound
Created by ArtNet News

Interview with Melissa Sweet about Unbound
Created by Random House Teachers & Librarians

Interview with Melissa Sweet about The Right Word
Created by Texas Bluebonnet Award

Interview with Melissa Sweet about Alphamaniacs
Created by Mackin Community

Interview with Melissa Sweet about Some Writer!
Created by Library of Congress
Interview with Melissa Sweet about How to Read a Book
Created by Portland Press Herald

Interview with Melissa Sweet about Some Writer!
Created by The Yarn Podcast
Interview with Melissa Sweet about A Splash of Red
Created by Two Writing Teachers

Interview with Melissa Sweet about Some Writer!
Created by Horn Book
Interview with Melissa Sweet about The Right Word
Created by Portland Press Herald
Interview with Melissa Sweet about Balloons Over Broadway
Created by Delightful Children's Books
Finding the Right Illustrations with Melissa Sweet about The Right Word
Created by Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast

Interview with Melissa Sweet about Balloons Over Broadway
Created by Horn Book

Interview with Melissa Sweet about Balloons Over Broadway
Created by International Literacy Association
Interview with Melissa Sweet about Brave Girl
Created by Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast

Interview with Melissa Sweet about Balloons Over Broadway
Created by Horn Book
Interview with Melissa Sweet about A River of Words
Created by Jama Rattigan
Interview with Melissa Sweet about A River of Words
Created by A Year of Reading

Interview with Melissa Sweet about A River of Words
Created by Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Lifetime Achievement Awards 2

Society of Illustrators Lifetime Achievement Award, 2005-2024
Illustrator Winner, 2021

Carle Honors, Artist, 2006-2025
Honor, 2019
Books by Melissa Sweet 55


Unbound: The Life and Art of Judith Scott
by Joyce Scott, Brie Spangler, and Melissa Sweet
29 Resources4 Awards

Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909
by Michelle Markel and Melissa Sweet
28 Resources8 Awards

Some Writer!: The Story of E.B. White
27 Resources12 Awards

A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin
by Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet
26 Resources9 Awards

A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams
by Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet
25 Resources8 Awards



Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems
by Paul B. Janeczko and Melissa Sweet
21 Resources10 Awards






The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audubon
by Jacqueline Davies and Melissa Sweet
12 Resources1 Award

Alphamaniacs: Builders of 26 Wonders of the Word
by Paul Fleischman and Melissa Sweet
12 Resources2 Awards








The Sleepy Little Alphabet: A Bedtime Story from Alphabet Town
by Judy Sierra and Melissa Sweet
7 Resources1 Award








Series by Melissa Sweet1
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