The American Library Association presented their annual book awards at their mid-winter meeting in Denver. On Monday morning, at the Youth Media Awards, the Newbery medal went to Erin Entrada Kelly for Hello, Universe (Greenwillow Books) and the Caldecott Medal to Matthew Cordell for Wolf in the Snow (Feiwel & Friends). Nina Lacour won the Michael L. Printz Award for We Are Okay (Dutton Children’s), and author Angela Johnson won the Margaret A. Edwards Award for “significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.” The William C. Morris YA Debut award went to The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (Balzer + Bray), which also won the Odyssey […]
