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January 27, 2025By Katy Hershberger

Erin Entrada Kelly Wins Newbery; Caldecott to Rebecca Lee Kunz

January 27, 2025By Katy Hershberger

The American Library Association announced the winners of the ALA Youth Media Awards.

Newbery Medal
The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly

Newbery Honors
Across So Many Seas by Ruth Behar
Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All by Chanel Miller
One Big Open Sky by Lesa Cline-Ransome
The Wrong Way Home by Kate O’Shaughnessy

Caldecott Medal
Chooch Helped by Andrea L Rogers, illustrated by Rebecca Lee Kunz

Caldecott Honors
Home in a Lunchbox by Cherry Mo
My Daddy Is a Cowboy by Stephanie Seales, illustrated by C. G. Esperanza
Noodles on a Bicycle by Kyo Maclear, illustrated by Gracey Zhang
Up, Up, Ever Up! Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains by Anita Yasuda, illustrated by Yuko Shimizu

Printz Medal
Brownstone by Samuel Teer, illustrated by Mar Julia

Printz Honors
Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo
Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White
The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag
Road Home by Rex Ogle

William C. Morris Award
Not Like Other Girls by Meredith Adamo

Coretta Scott King Author Award
Twenty-Four Seconds from Now . . . by Jason Reynolds

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award
My Daddy Is a Cowboy by Stephanie Seales, illustrated by C. G. Esperanza

The Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Awards for Writing
Kwame Crashes the Underworld by Craig Kofi Farmer

The Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Awards for Illustration
Jimmy’s Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin by Michelle Meadows, illustrated by Jamiel Law

Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement
Carolyn L. Garnes

Pura Belpre Author Award
Lola by Karla Arenas Valenti

Pura Belpre Illustrator Award
The Dream Catcher by Marcelo Verdad

Pura Belpre Young Adult Award
Shut Up, This Is Serious by Carolina Ixta

Asian Pacific American Awards
Aloha Everything by Kaylin Melia George, illustrated by Mae Waite
Continental Drifter by Kathy MacLeod
Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay

Sydney Taylor Book Awards
An Etrog From Across the Sea by Deborah Bodin Cohen and Kerry Olitzky, illustrated by Stacey Dressen McQueen
The Girl Who Sang by Bethany Strout and Estelle Nadel, illustrated by Sammy Savos
Night Owls by A. R. Vishny

Schneider Family Book Awards
A Little Like Magic by Sarah Kurpiel
Popcorn by Rob Harrell
Chronically Dolores by Maya Van Wagenen

Stonewall Book Awards
Lunar Boy by Jes And Cin Wibowo
Canto Contigo by Jonny Garza Villa

Margaret A. Edwards Award
Tiffany D. Jackson

Children’s Literature Legacy Award
Carole Boston Weatherford

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