It’s my favourite day of the yr!

The 2022 ALA Youth Media Awards had been introduced this morning. For these of us e book loving nerds, the ALA’s are the Academy Awards of youngsters’s literature. We’ve got been buzzing with anticipation for weeks, keen to listen to which books (and which creators) will take house these super honors.

Identical to with any main awards, some years you possibly can guess the winners, and a few years you’re shocked and thrilled with sleeper tales you didn’t count on.

I watched the awards from my college library and cheered with pleasure on the bulletins. As at all times, many books that made us chortle and touched our hearts weren’t award winners this yr, however many different books we cherished have authors and illustrators who can’t cease grinning, their lives modified eternally.

We’re thrilled with in the present day’s winners, and we’re honored to share them with you!

Here’s a checklist of some of the foremost awards (with a hyperlink to the whole checklist on the ALA web site on the backside), along with affiliate hyperlinks in your ease of reference.

With out additional ado, listed here are the winners!!!!

John Newbery Medal for essentially the most excellent contribution to youngsters’s literature:

WINNER: The Last Cuentista, by Donna Barba Higuera

HONOR: Red, White and Whole, by Rajani Larocca. That is on our checklist of Best Books for 5th Graders!

HONOR: A Snake Falls to Earth, by Darcie Little Badger

HONOR: Too Bright to See, by Kyle Lukoff

HONOR: Watercress, by Andrea Wang and illustrated by Jason Chin. Watercress is on our checklist of finest Asian American Children’s Books AND Diverse Picture Books We Love!

Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for Children

WINNER: WATERCRESS, illustrated by Jason Chin and written by Andrea Wang. Watercress is on our checklist of finest Asian American Children’s Books and Diverse Picture Books We Love!

HONOR: Have You Ever Seen a Flower, by Shawn Harris

HONOR: Mel Fell, by Cory R. Tabor

HONOR: Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Masssacre, illustrated by Floyd Cooper and written by Carole Boston Weatherford

HONOR: Wonder Walkers, by Micha Arche

Michael L. Printz Award 

This award is for excellence in literature written for younger adults.

WINNER: Firekeeper’s Daughter, by Angeline Boulley

HONOR: Concrete Rose, by Angie Thomas

HONOR: Last Night at the Telegraph Club, by Malinda Lo

HONOR: Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People, by Kekla Magoon

HONOR: Starfish, by Lisa Fipps. Starfish is on our checklist of Best Books for 5th Graders!

Theodor Seuss Geisel Award

This award is given to essentially the most distinguished starting reader e book.

WINNER: Fox at Night, by Corey R. Tabor. We love this whole sequence, whch is featured on our Best Books for Beginning Readers.

HONOR: Beak and Ally: Unlikely Friends, by Norm Feuti

HONOR: I Hop, by Joe Cepeda

HONOR: Nothing Fits a Dinosaur, by Jonathan Fenske

Coretta Scott King Book Awards – Author

This award acknowledges African-American authors and illustrators of excellent books for kids and younger adults.

WINNER (AUTHOR): Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Masssacre, illustrated by Floyd Cooper and written by Carole Boston Weatherford

 

Coretta Scott King Book Awards – Illustrator

WINNER (ILLUSTRATOR): Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Masssacre, illustrated by Floyd Cooper and written by Carole Boston Weatherford

HONOR: Nina: A Story of Nina Simone, by Christian Robinson

HONOR: We Wait for the Sun, illustrated by Raissa Figueroa and written by Dovey Johnson Rountree and Katie McCabe 

HONOR: Soul Food Sunday, illustrated by C.G. Esperanza and written by Winsome Bingham

Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award

WINNER (AUTHOR): Me (Moth), by Amber McBride

WINNER (ILLUSTRATOR): The Me I Choose to Be, illustrated by Regis and Kahran Bethencourt and written by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley. The Me I Select to Be is on our checklist of the most effective self-esteem books for kids.

Pura Belpre Awards

This award honors Latinx writers and illustrators whose youngsters’s books finest painting, affirm and rejoice the Latino cultural expertise.

WINNER (ILLUSTRATOR): Vamos! Let’s Cross the Bridge, by Raul Gonzalez

HONOR (ILLUSTRATOR): Boogie Boogie, Y’all, by C.G. Esperanza

HONOR (ILLUSTRATOR): Bright Star, by Yuyi Morales

HONOR (ILLUSTRATOR): De Aqui Como El Coqui, by Nomar Perez and translated by Farah Perez

HONOR (ILLUSTRATOR): May Your Life be Deliciosa, illustrated by Loris Lora and written by Michael Genhart. That is on our checklist of the Best Hispanic Children’s Books and Diverse Picture Books We Love!

WINNER (AUTHOR): The Last Cuentista, by Donna Barba Higuera

HONOR (AUTHOR): Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna, by Alda P. Dobs

HONOR (AUTHOR): Child of the FLower-Song People: Luz Jimenez, Daughter of the Nahua, by Gloria Amescua and illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh

HONOR (AUTHOR): De Aqui Como El Coqui, by Nomar Perez and translated by Farah Perez

Stonewall Book Award

This award is given annual to English-language youngsters’s and younger grownup books of outstanding benefit referring to the homosexual, lesbian, bisexual and transgender expertise.

WINNER (Youngsters): Too Bright to See, by Kyle Lukoff

WINNER (Younger Grownup): Last Night at the Telegraph Club, by Malinda Lo

HONOR: Almost Flying, by Jake Maia Arlow

HONOR: The Darkness Outside Us, by Eliot Schrefer

HONOR: Grandad’s Camper, by Harry Woodgate. That is on our checklist of our favourite LGBT Children’s books!

Sydney Taylor Awards

This award is offered yearly to excellent books for kids and youths that authentically painting the Jewish expertise.

WINNER (YOUNGER READERS): The Passover Guest, by Susan Kusel and illustrated by Sean Rubin, by Emily Jenkins and illustrated by Paul O. Zelinskey.

HONOR (YOUNGER READERS): Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued, by Peter Sis

HONOR (YOUNGER READERS): Dear Mr. Dickens, by Nancy Churnin, illustrated by Benthany Stancliffe

HONOR (YOUNGER READERS): The Christmas Mitzvah, by Jeff Gottesfeld and illustrated by Michelle Laurentia

WINNER (OLDER READERS): How to Find What You’re Not Looking for, by Veera Hiranandani

HONOR (OLDER READERS): The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, by Eugene Yelchin

HONOR (OLDER READERS): Linked, by Godon Korman

WINNER (TEEN READERS): The City Beautiful, by Aden Polydoros

HONOR (TEEN READERS): The Last Words We Said, by Leah Scheier

HONOR (TEEN READERS): Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero, by E. Lockhart and illustrated by Manuel Preitano

HONOR (TEEN READERS): The Summer of Lost Letters, by Hannah Reynolds

Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature

This award promotes Asian/Pacific American tradition and heritage and is awarded based mostly on literary and creative benefit.

WINNER (PICTURE BOOK): Watercress, by Andrea Wang and illustrated by Jason Chin. Watercress is on our checklist of finest Asian American Children’s Books AND Diverse Picture Books We Love!

HONOR (PICTURE BOOK): A Boy Named Isamu: A Story of Isamu Noguchi, by James Yang

WINNER (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE): Amina’s Song, by Hena Khan

HONOR (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE): Finding Junie Kim, by Ellen Oh

WINNER (YOUTH LITERATURE): Last Night at the Telegraph Club, by Malinda Lo

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award

This award goes to essentially the most distinguished informational e book for kids.

WINNER: The People’s Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art, by Cynthia Levinson and illustrated by Evan Turk

HONOR: The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London’s Poop Pollution Problem, by Colleen Paeff and illustrated by Nancy Carpenter

 

Schneider Family Book Award

This award goes to a e book that embodies an inventive expression of the incapacity expertise.

HONOR (YOUNG CHILDREN): A Walk in the Words, by Hudson Talbott

HONOR (YOUNG CHILDREN): A Sky-Blue Bench, by Bahram Rahman and illustrated by Peggy Collins

WINNER (MIDDLE GRADE): A Bird Will Soar, by Alison Inexperienced Myers

HONOR (MIDDLE GRADE): Stuntboy, in the Meantime, by Jason Reynolds and illustrated by Raul the Third

HONOR (MIDDLE GRADE): A Kind of Spark, by Elle McNicoll

WINNER (TEENS): The Words in My Hands, by Asphyxia

HONOR (TEENS): A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome, by Ariel Henley

American Indian Youth Literature Awards

WINNER (PICTURE BOOK): Herizon, by Daniel Vandever and illustrated by Corey Begay

WINNER (MIDDLE GRADE): Healer of the Water Monsters, by Brian Younger

WINNER (YOUNG ADULT): Apple (Skin to the Core), by Eric Gansworth

Congratulations to all the remarkable winners!

For the whole checklist of awards, CLICK HERE!