Youth Media Awards!

PS- Sorry in advance about spelling, formatting, etc., etc. Just trying to get the information out to you all

• Alex Awards for the best adult books that appeal to teen audience -

City of Theives by David Benioff

Dragons of Babel by Swanwick

Finding Nouf by Ferraris

The Good Thief by Tinti

Just after sunset by Stephen King

Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

Over and Under by Tucker

The Oxford Project by Bloom

Sharpe Teeth by Barlow

Three Girls and Their Brother by Rebeck

•  Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in children’s video -

March On – Weston Woods 

Coretta Scott King Book Awards honors African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books for children and young adults that demonstrate sensitivity to “the African American experience via literature and illustration.”

Coretta Scott King / John Steptoe Award for New Talent –

Shadra Strickland; illustrator of Bird

Illustrator Honor Award –

We are the Ship by Kadir Nelson

Before John was a Jazz Giant by Sean Qualls

The Moon Over Star by Jerry Pinkney

Illustrator Award-

Blacker the Berry Illustrated by Floyd Cooper

Author Honor Book –

Keeping the Knight Watch by Smith

Blacker the Berry by Joyce Carol Thomas

Becoming Billie Holiday by Carole Boston Weatherford

Winner-

We are the Ship by Kadir Nelson

John Newbery Medal honors the author of the year’s most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

Honors –

The Underneath by Appelt

The Surrender Tree by Engle

Savvy by Law

After Tupac & D Foster by Woodsen

Winner-

The Graveyard Book by Gaiman!

Laura Ingalls Wilder Award honors an author or illustrator whose books have made a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.

Ashley Bryan

Margaret A. Edwards Award honors an author’s lifetime contribution in writing for young adults as well as a specific body of his or her work.

Laurie Halse Anderson (!!!)

May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award recognizes an author, critic, librarian, historian, or teacher of children’s literature, who then presents a paper, considered to be a significant contribution to the field of children’s literature, at a winning host site.

Kathleen T. Horning

Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults

Honor –

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing… by MT Anderson

The Disreputable History … by ???

Nation by Pratchett

Tender Morsels by Lanagan

Winner –

Jellicoe Road by Marchetta

Mildred L. Batchelder Award is presented to an American publisher for the most outstanding book originally published in a country other than the United States in a language other than English and subsequently translated into English for publication in the United States.

Honor Books –

Garmon’s Summer by Hole

Tiger Moon by Michaelis

Winner –

Moribito by Uehashi

Odyssey Award is presented to the producer of the best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults available in English in the United States.

Honors –

Listening Library – Curse of the Blue Tattoo

Listening Library – Elijah of Buxton by Curtis

I’m Dirty McMullan – Weston Woods

Martina the Beautiful Cockroach – Peachtree

Nation Pratchett - Harper Collins

Winner –

Recorded Books – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part – Time Indian

Pura Belpré Award recognizes Latino/Latina writers and illustrators whose work best portrays, affirms and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.

Illustration Honor -

Papa and Me Illustrated by Gutierrez

The Storyteller’s Candle illustrated by Delacrue (?)

What can you do with a Rebozo illustrated by Cordova

Winner Illustrator –

Just in Case illustrated by Morales

Author Honor Books –

Reaching Out by Jimenez

Just in Case by Morales

Storyteller’s Candle by Gonzalez

Author Winner –

The Surrender Tree by Engle

Randolph Caldecott Medal honors the illustrator of the year’s most distinguished American picture book for children.

Honors –

A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever by Frazee

How I learned Geography by Shulevitz

A River of Words by Sweet

Winner –

The House in the Night by Krommes

• Robert F. Sibert Medal honors an author, illustrator and/or photographer of the most distinguished informational book published for children.

Honor Books –

Bodies from the Ice… by Deem

What to do about Alice by Kerley

Winner –

We are the Ship by Kadir Nelson

Schneider Family Book Award for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience.

Young Children’s - Piano Starts Here: the Young Art Tatum by Parker

Middle Grades – Waiting for Normal by Conner

Teen Book – Jerk California by Friesen

Theodor Seuss Geisel Award is presented annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished book for beginning readers published in English in the United States.

Honor Books –

Chicken Said Cluck! by Grant

One Boy by Seeger

Stinky by Davis

Wolfsnail by Campbell

Winner –

Are you Ready to Play Outside by my boyfriend, Mo Willems (he does not realize he is my boyfriend)

William C. Morris Award begins in 2009, honoring a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature.

New Award!

Finalists

A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth Bunce

Gracling by Cashore

Absolute Brightness by Lecesne

Madapple by Meldrum

Me, The Missing, and the Dead by Ballentine

Winner –

A Curse Dark as Gold by Bunce