Congrats to all of the winners of this year's
American Library Association
Youth Media Awards!!
John Newbery Award Winner - Moon Over Manifest by Claire Vanderpool
Randolph Caldecott Medal - A Sick Day for Amos McGee, illustrated by Erin E. Stead
Michael L. Printz Award - Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award - One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (also the winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction)
Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book Award - Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave, illustrated by Bryan Collier
Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent (Author) Award - Zora and Me by Victoria Bond and T. R. Simon
Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent (Illustrator) Award - Seeds of Change, illustrated by Sonia Lynn Sadler
Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Practitioner Award for Lifetime Achievement -
Dr. Henrietta Mays Smith
Schneider Family Book Award - The Pirate of Kindergarten by George Ella Lyon, After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick, Five Flavors of Dumb by Antony John
Laura Ingalls Wilder Award - Tomie dePaola
Margaret A. Edwards Award - Sir Terry Pratchett
May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award - Peter Sis
Mildred L. Batchelder Award - A Time of Miracles by Anne-Laure Bondoux, translated by Y. Maudet
Odyssey Award - The True Meaning of Smekday, produced by Listening Library
Pura Belpre (Author) Award - The Dreamer by Pam Munoz Ryan
Pura Belpre (Illustrator) Award - Grandma's Gift, illustrated and written by Eric Velasquez
Robert F. Sibert Medal - Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot by Sy Montgomery
Stonewall Children's and Young Adult Literature Award - Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award - Bink and Gollie by Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee
William C. Morris Award - The Freak Observer by Blythe Woolston
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults - Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing by Ann Angel
