One of the things I always tell new writers and one that everyone in the industry will tell you is to read, read, read. The list below is a great place to start when making up your book list for this year’s reading. My problem is I still have a pile of books from last year waiting for me to read. Even so, my itchy Amazon finger couldn’t control itself and made me order three books on the list today.
Funny how most of the editors will tell you they are not looking for historical fiction, but most of the books listed for the Newbery are historical fiction. Doesn’t that make you want to buy a historical fiction manuscript, editors? Of course to be fair, what the editors are saying is that historical fiction doesn’t sell and the Newbery committee is not picking the winners using that criteria.
At the bottom you will notice that Grace Lin (Our Keynote Speaker for our June Conference) won the Theodore Seuss Geisel Honor Award for her book LING & TING. Congratulations, Grace!
Here is the full list of children’s/YA award winners from today’s ALA ceremony!
Newbery Awards & Honors
Honor | Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night | Joyce Sidman | 9780547152288 |
Honor | Heart of a Samurai | Margi Preus | 9780810989818 |
Honor | One Crazy Summer | Rita Williams-Garcia | 9780060760885 |
Honor | Turtle in Paradise | Jennifer L. Holm | 9780375836886 |
Winner | Moon Over Manifest | Clare Vanderpool | 9780385738835 |
Caldecott Awards & Honors
Honor | Dave the Potter | Laban Carick Hill | 9780316107310 |
Honor | Interrupting Chicken | David Ezra Stein | 9780763641689 |
Winner | A Sick Day for Amis McGee | Erin Stead | 9781596434028 |
ALEX Awards: The Alex Awards are given to 10 adult books that are appealing to young adults
The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To | D.C. Pierson | 9780307474612 |
Breaking Night | Liz Murray | 9780786868919 |
Girl in Translation | Jean Kwok | 9781594487569 |
The House of Tomorrow | Peter Bognanni | 9780399156090 |
The Lock Artist | Steve Hamilton | 9780312380427 |
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake | Aimee Bender | 9780385501125 |
The Radleys | Matt Haig | 9781439194010 |
The Reapers Are the Angels | Alden Bell | 9780805092431 |
Room | Emma Donoghue | 9780316098335 |
The Vanishing of Katharina Linden | Helen Grant | 9780385344173 |
Schneider Awards: Annual juvenile award to an author or illustrator that best captures the disability experience
Best Children’s Book | The Pirate of Kingergarten | George Ella Lyon | 9781416950240 |
Best Middle School Book | After Ever After | Jordan Sonnenblick | 9780439837064 |
Best Teen Book | Five Flavors of Dumb | Antony John | 9780803734333 |
Stonewall children’s and YA literature Award: Annual award for English language book best capturing GLBT experience
2011 Honor Books
Will Grayson, Will Grayson | John Green | 9780525421580 |
Love Drugged | James Klise | 9780738721750 |
Freaks and Revelations | David Willis Hurwin | 9780316049962 |
The Boy in the Dress | David Williams | 9781595142993 |
2011 Winner
Almost Perfect | Brian Katcher | 9780385736657 |
Coretta Scott King: Given to African American authors and illustrator for outstanding inspirational and educational contributions
Lifetime Achievement | Henrietta M. Smith | ||
New Talent | Zora & Me | Victoria Bond | 9780763643003 |
New Talent | Seeds of Change | Sonia Lynn SadlerJen Cullerton Johnson | 9781600603679 |
Illustrator | Dave the Potter | Laban Carick Hill | 9780316107310 |
Author Honor | Lock Down | Sharon Berti | 9781450062732 |
Author Honor | Ninth Ward | Jewell Parker Rhodes | 9780316043076 |
Author Honor | Yummy | G. Neri | 9781584302674 |
Author Winner | One Crazy Summer | Rita Garcia-Williams | 9780060760885 |
Margaret A. Edwards Awards for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature
- Terry Pratchett
William C. Morris Award for Best debut YA Author
Honor | Hush | Esches Chayil | 9780802720887 |
Honor | Guardian of the Dead | Karen Healy | 9780316044301 |
Honor | Hold Me Closer Necromancer | Lish McBride | 9780805090987 |
Winner | Freak the Observer | Blythe Woolston | 9780761362128 |
YALSA Best Nonfiction Award
Honor | Spies of Mississippi | Rick Bowers | 9781426305955 |
Honor | The Dark Game | Paul Janeckzo | 9780763629151 |
Honor | They Called Themselves the KKK | Susan Campbell Bartoletti | 9780618440337 |
Winner | Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing | Ann Angel | 9780810983496 |
Printz Honor Books: Excellence in YA Literature
Winner | Ship Breaker | Paolo Bacigalupi | 9780316056212 |
Pura Belpre Awards: Celebrating Latino Authors and Illustrators
Winner Illustration | Grandma’s Gift | Eric Velasquez | 9780802720825 |
Winner Text | The Dreamer | Pam Munoz Bryan | 9780439269704 |
Mildred L. Batch Elder Award: International and Translated into English
Winner | A Time of Miracles | Anne-Laure Bondoux | 9780385739221 |
Sibert Honor: Most Distinguished Informational Book
Honor | Ballet for Martha | Jan Greenberg | 9781596433380 |
Honor | Lafayette & the American Revolution | Russell Freedman | 9780823421824 |
Winner | Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot | Sy Montgomery | 9780618494170 |
Laura Ingalls Wilder Award: Lasting & Significant Contribution to Children’s Literature
- Tomie DePaola
Theodore Seuss Geisel Award: Book for Beginning Readers that demonstrate great creativity and imagination to engage children in reading
Honor | Ling & Ting | Grace Lin | 9780316024525 |
Honor | We Are in a Book | Moe Willems | 9781423133087 |
Winner | Bink & Gollie | Kate DiCamillo | 9780763632663 076363266X |
Talk tomorrow,
Kathy
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