Thursday, February 5, 2015

Celebrating ALA's 2015 Youth Media Awards

Let's celebrate some of 2015's award-winning books!


The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend,illustrated and written by Dan Santat and published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.


 The Randolph Caldecott Medal is awarded annually , to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. The award is administered by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association.



 The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus,  illustrated by Melissa Sweet, written by Jen Bryant, and published by Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Winner of . . . 

The Sibert Medal
 
The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal is awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in the United States in English during the preceding year. The award is administered by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association. 

AND  

a Caldecott Honor Medal

The Randolph Caldecott Medal is awarded annually , to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. The award is administered by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association.




Visit author Jen Bryant's webpage here.


Brown Girl Dreaming, written by Jacqueline Woodson, is the King Author Book winner. The book is published by Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC.
 
The Coretta Scott King Author Medal

The Coretta Scott King Book Awards are given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values. The award is administered by the American Library Association's Ethnic and Multicultural Exchange Round Table


AND  

A Newbery Honor Medal

AND

A Sibert Honor Medal


Listen to Ms. Woodson read from her book.

 


El Deafo by Cece Bell, illustrated by Cece Bell and published by Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS. 

A Newbery Honor Medal

 

Listen to Ms. Bell talk about her experiences as a child and why she wrote El Deafo. 







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