The American Library Association presented their annual book awards at their mid-winter meeting in Atlanta. First came the naming of the Carnegie Medalists on Sunday night, Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Matthew Desmond’s Evicted (the two consensus fiction and nonfiction books of the year in our annual aggregation as well). On Monday morning, at the Youth Media Awards ceremony, the National Book Award-winning graphic novel March: Book Three, written by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, illustrated by Nate Powell (Top Shelf Productions/IDW) won four awards — the Michael L. Printz Award for young adult literature, the Excellence in Nonfiction award, the Coretta […]