Friday Focus: Special Edition
Monday, January 11, 2016 . . . vol. 3, no. 17a
The 2016 ALA Youth Media Awards have been announced! Note that IndyPL Kids Blog pages will be updated today to make ordering easier.
Award highlights include:
Newbery Medal winner –
Last Stop on Market Street, Matt de la Pena
Honor – The War that Saved My Life, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Roller Girl, Victoria Jamieson
Echo, Pam Munoz Ryan
Caldecott Medal winner –
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear, illustrated by Sophie Blackall
Honor -- Trombone Shorty, illustrated by Bryan Collier
Waiting, illustrated by Kevin Henkes
Voice of Freedom, illustrated by Euka Holmes
Last Stop on Market Street, illustrated by Christian Robinson
Printz Award winner –
Bone Gap, Laura Ruby
Honor – Out of Darkness, Ashley Hope Perez
The Ghosts of Heaven, Marcus Sedgwick
Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award winner –
Gone Crazy in Alabama, Rita Williams-Garcia
Honor – All American Boys, Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
The Boy in the Black Suit, Jason Reynolds
X: a Novel, Ilyasah Shabazz with Kelka Magoon
Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book Award winner – T
rombone Shorty, illustrated by Bryan Collier
Honor – The Book Itch, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
Last Stop on Market Street, illustrated by Christian Robinson
Pura Belpre Award winner – illustration –
The Drum Dream Girl, illustrated by Rafael Lopez
Honor – My Tata’s Remedies, illustrated by Antonio Castro L.
Mango, Abuela, and Me, Illustrated by Angela Dominguez
Funny Bones,illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh
Pura Belpre Award winner – text
Enchanted Air, Margarita Engle
Honor – The Smoking Mirror, David Bowles
Mango, Abuela and Me, Meg Medina
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award –
Don’t Throw It To Mo!, David A. Adler
Honor -- A Pig, a Fox, and a Box, Jonathan Fenske
Supertruck, Stephen Savage
Waiting, Kevin Henkes
YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction winner –
Most Dangerous, Steve Sheinkin
Sibert Medal winner –
Funny Bones, Duncan Tonatiuh
Honor -- Drowned City, Don Brown
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler, Phillip Hoose
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom, Lynda Blackmon Lowery
Voice of Freedom, Carole Boston Weatherford
Morris Award winner –
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, Becky Albertalli
Stonewall Book Award –
George, Alex Gino
The Porcupine of Truth, Bill Konigsberg (Young Adult – new category!)
Honor – Wonders of the Invisible World, Christopher Barzak
Sex is a Funny Word, Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth
Schneider Family Book Awards winners –
Emmanuel’s Dream, Laurie Ann Thompson (Young Children)
Fish in a Tree, Lynda Mullaly Hunt (Middle Grade)
The War that Saved my Life, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Middle Grade)
The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B, Teresa Toten (Teen)
Mildred Batchelder Award winner –
The Wonderful Fluffy Little Squishy, Beatrice Alemagna
Honor – Adam and Thomas, Aharon Appelfeld
Grandma Lives in a Perfume Village, Fang Suzhen
Written and Drawn by Henrietta, Liniers
Coretta Scott King John Steptoe Award –
Hoodoo, Ronald L. Smith (author)
Voice of Freedom, Euka Holmes (illustrator award)
Odyssey Award winner –
The War that Saved My Life, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Honor – Echo, Pam Munoz Ryan
Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement – Jerry Pinkney
Margaret A. Edwards Award – David Levithan
May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award – Jacqueline Woodson
Laura Ingalls Wilder Award – Jerry Pinkney
Alex Awards:
All Involved, Ryan Gattis
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Bones and All, Camille DeAngelis
Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits, David Wong
Girl at War, Sara Novic
Half the World, Joe Abercrombie
Humans of New York, Brandon Stanton
Sacred Heart, Liz Suburbia
Undocumented, Dan-el Padilla Peralta
The Unraveling of Mercy Louis, Keija Parssinen
I will send out the full press release on all of the ALA awards/honors when it becomes available later today.
In other recent book news (not part of the ALA awards):
The 2015 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature goes to Neal Shusterman’s Challenger Deep:
http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2015.html#.VlSA-dKrSUk
Horn Book announced last week that the 2016 Scott O’ Dell Award for Historical Fiction goes to Laura Amy Schlitz for The Hired Girl:
http://www.hbook.com/2016/01/blogs/read-roger/the-2016-scott-odell-award-for-historical-fiction/#_
You can read the speeches of the 2015 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winners:
The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) has awarded the 2016 Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children to Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans by Don Brown and the 2016 Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children to Stella by Starlight by Sharon Draper:
http://www.ncte.org/press/2016-childrens-book-award
School Library Journal’s Battle of the Books contenders will be announced on Wednesday, January 20, 2016. Watch here for the contenders:
http://battleofthebooks.slj.com/
The 2015 Cybils (Children’s and Young Adult Blogger’s Literacy Awards) finalists have been announced (scroll down to the post for links to the various categories):
http://www.cybils.com/2016/01/the-2015-finalists.html
The 2016-2017 YHBA nominees have been posted:
The 2015-2016 Eliot Rosewater nominees have been posted:
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