ALA Youth Media Awards Announced!

Here are the award winners and honor books as announced this morning by ALA. ALSC Awards (Assication of Library Services for Children): John Newbery Medal: Award: Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos Honor: Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai Breaking Stalin’s Nose  illustrated & written by Eugene Yelchin Caldecott Medal: Award: A Ball for Daisy illustrated & written by Chris Raschka Honor: Blackout illustrated & written by John Rocco Grandpa Green illustrated & written by Lane Smith Me…Jane illustrated & written by Patrick McDonnell Theodor Seuss Geisel Award: Award: Tales for Very Picky Eaters by Josh Schneider Honor: I Broke My Trunk by Moe Willems I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen See Me Run by Paul Meisel Robert F. Sibert Medal: Award: Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade written & illustrated by Melissa Sweet Honor: Black & White: The Confrontation of Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene “Bull” Connor by Larry Dane Brimner Drawing From Memory written & illustrated by Allen Say The Elephant Scientist by Caitlin O’Connell and Donna M. Jackson Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster  by Rosalyn Schanzer Mildred L. Batchelder Award (honors the publisher of a book originally published in a language other than English.) Award: Soldier Bear by Bibi Dumon Tak Honor: The Lily Pond by Annika Thor Pura Belpré Award: (co-sponsored by ASLC & REFORMA) celebrates the Latino culture Illus. Award: Diego Rivera: His World and Ours  illustrated & written by Duncan Tonatiuh Honor: The Cazuela that the Farm Maiden Stirred by Samantha R. Vamos Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match/ Marisol McDonald no Combina  illustrated by Sara Palacios and written by Monica Brown Author Award: Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall Honor: Maximilian and the Mystery of the Guardian Angel: A Bilingual Lucha Libre Thriller written and illustrated by Xavier Garza Hurricane dancers: the first Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck by Margarita Engle YALSA Awards (Young Adult Library Services Association): Micheal L. Printz Award: Award: Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley Honor: Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler The Returning by Christine Hinwood Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater YALSA Excellence for NF Award: Award: The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism, and Treachery by Steve Sheinkin Finalists: Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science by Marc Aronson & Marina Budhos Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition by Karen Blumenthal Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) by Sue Macy Music was It: Young Leonard Bernstein by Susan Goldman Rubin William C. Morris Award: Award: Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley Honor: The Girl of Fire & Thorns by Rae Carson Paper Covers Rock by Jenny Hubbard Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall Between Shades of Grey by Ruta Sepetys Margaret A. Edwards Award: (Significant and lasting contribution to Young Adult literature.) Susan Cooper Other ALA Awards: Coretta Scott King Awards: CSK Virginia Hamilton Practitioner Award: (lifetime achievement presented every 2 years for lasting …) Ashley Bryan  (Let It Shine,  Beautiful Blackbird, and more ) He was the first African-American to both write and illustrate a children’s book. Illustrator Award: Award: Shane W. Evans for Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom (illustrator and author) Honor: Kadir Nelson for Heart & Soul (illustrator and author) Author Award: Award: Kadir Nelson for Heart and Soul Eloise Greenfield for The Great Migration: Journey to the North Patricia C. McKissack for Never Forgotten Schneider Family Book Awards: Children – the committee chose not to select a title, no submission was deemed worthy Middle – selected two titles for this group: Close to Famous by Joan Bauer Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick Teen – The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen Stonewall Childrens & YA lit award: Award:  Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy by Bil Wright Honor: A+ e 4ever by Ilike Merey Money Boy by Paul Yee Pink by Lili Wilkinson with or without you by Brian Farrey Andrew Carnegie Medal (excellence in video for children): “Children Make Terrible Pets” by Peter Brown Odyssey Award (best audio produced for children or teens) administered by ALSC & YLSA Award: “Rotters” written by Daniel Kraus Honor: “Ghetto Cowboy” “Okay for Now” “TheScorpio Races” “Young Fredle” May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award: 2013 lecture delivered by Michael Morpurgo (I’m sorry, I missed the announcement of the Alex Awards while trying to log in to the streaming video.)