The ALA
Youth Media Awards have been announced!
Here are some of the winners, and I've highlighted everything that I had a prediction about or was on my radar as a potential winner in red. Too bad I wasn't in a betting pool this year! I could have cleaned up.
Newbery
The Crossover - Kwame Alexander
Newbery Honor:
El Deafo - Cece Bell
Brown Girl Dreaming - Jacqueline Woodson
Caldecott:
The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend - Dan Santat
Caldecott Honor:
Nana in the City - Lauren Castillo
The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky’s
Abstract Art - Barb Rosenstock, illustrated by Mary GrandPré
Sam & Dave Dig a Hole - Mac Barnett, illustrated by Jon Klassen
Viva Frida - Yuyi Morales
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus - illustrated by Melissa
Sweet, written by Jen Bryant
This One Summer - illustrated by Jillian Tamaki, written by Mariko
Tamaki
Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award:
Brown Girl Dreaming - Jacqueline Woodson
King Author Honor:
The Crossover - Kwame Alexander
How I Discovered Poetry - Marilyn Nelson, illustrated by Hadley
Hooper
How It Went Down - Kekla Magoon
Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book Award:
Firebird - Misty Copeland, illustrated by Christopher Myers
King Illustrator Honor:
Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker - Patricia Hruby
Powell, illustrated by Christian Robinson
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone - Katheryn
Russell-Brown, illustrated by Frank Morrison
Printz:
I’ll Give You the Sun - Jandy Nelson
Printz Honor:
And We Stay - Jenny Hubbard
The Carnival at Bray - Jessie Ann Foley
Grasshopper Jungle - Andrew Smith
This One Summer - Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Jillian Tamaki
Pura Belpré (Illustrator) Award:
Viva Frida - Yuyi Morales
Belpré Illustrator Honor:
Little Roja Riding Hood - Susan Middleton Elya, illustrated by
Susan Guevara
Green Is a Chile Pepper - Roseanne Greenfield Thong, illustrated
by John Parra
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight
for Desegregation - Duncan Tonatiuh
Sibert:
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus - Jen Bryant
Sibert Honor:
Brown Girl Dreaming - Jacqueline Woodson
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, & the Fall of
Imperial Russia - Candace Fleming
Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker - Patricia Hruby
Powell, illustrated by Christian Robinson
Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of
California’s Farallon Islands - Katherine Roy
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight
for Desegregation - Duncan Tonatiuh
Stonewall Award:
This Day in June - Gayle E. Pitman, Ph.D., illustrated by
Kristyna Litten
Stonewall Honor:
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out - Susan Kuklin.
I’ll Give You the Sun - Jandy Nelson
Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress - Christine
Baldacchio, illustrated by Isabelle Malenfant
Well done on your predictions! It's always very satisfying when you've nailed it ahead of time. (Which I did not. Beekle was barely on my radar this year, so it pretty much came out of left field for me.)
ReplyDeleteThanks! I've been surprised plenty of years - this time around, I was just proud to do so well. :)
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