The American Library Association announced the winners of the ALA Youth Media Awards.
Newbery Medal
All the Blues in the Sky by Renée Watson (Bloomsbury Children’s)
Newbery Honors
The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli written and illustrated by Karina Yan Glaser (Allida)
A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez by María Dolores Águila (Roaring Brook)
The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story by Daniel Nayeri (Arthur A. Levine)
The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest by Aubrey Hartman, illustrated by Marcin Minor (Little, Brown Children’s)
Caldecott Medal
Fireworks illustrated by Cátia Chien, written by Matthew Burgess (Clarion Children’s)
Caldecott Honors
Every Monday Mabel illustrated and written by Jashar Awan (Simon & Schuster Children’s)
Our Lake illustrated and written by Angie Kang (Kokila)
Stalactite & Stalagmite: A Big Tale from a Little Cave illustrated and written by Drew Beckmeyer (Atheneum)
Sundust illustrated and written by Zeke Peña (Kokila)
Printz Medal
Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Heartdrum)
Printz Honors
Cope Field by T.L. Simpson (Flux)
The House No One Sees by Adina King (Feiwel and Friends)
Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley (Holt Children’s)
Song of a Blackbird written and illustrated by Maria van Lieshout (First Second)
William C. Morris Award
All the Noise at Once by DeAndra Davis (Atheneum)
Coretta Scott King Author Award
Will’s Race for Home by Jewell Parker Rhodes (Little, Brown)
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award
The Library in the Woods illustrated by R. Gregory Christie and written by Calvin Alexander Ramsey (Carolrhoda)
The Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for Writing
Arriel Vinson for Under the Neon Lights (Putnam Children’s)
Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement
Kadir Nelson
Pura Belpre Author Award
The Pecan Sheller by Lupe Ruiz-Flores (Carolrhoda)
Pura Belpre Illustrator Award
Popo the Xolo, illustrated by Abraham Matias, written by Paloma Angelina Lopez (Charlesbridge)
Pura Belpre Young Adult Award
On the Wings of la Noche by Vanessa L. Torres (Knopf Children’s)
Asian/Pacific American Awards
Kaho’olawe: The True Story of an Island and Her People, written by Kamalani Hurley, illustrated by Harinani Orme (Millbrook)
Many Things at Once, written by Veera Hiranandani, illustrated by Nadia Alam (Random House Studio)
Hungry Bones by Louise Hung (Scholastic)
The Red Car to Hollywood by Jennie Liu (Carolrhoda)
Sydney Taylor Book Awards
Shabbat Shalom: Let’s Rest and Reset by Suzy Ultman (Rise x Penguin Workshop)
Neshama by Marcella Pixley (Candlewick)
D.J. Rosenblum Becomes the G.O.A.T. by Abby White (Arthur A. Levine)
American Indian Youth Literature Awards
Chooch Helped, written by Andrea L. Rogers (Cherokee Nation), illustrated by Rebecca Lee Kunz (Cherokee Nation) (Arthur A. Levine)
Buffalo Dreamer by Violet Duncan (Plains Cree and Taino from Kehewin Cree Nation) (Nancy Paulsen Books)
Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee Nation) (Heartdrum)
Schneider Family Book Awards
Wanda Hears the Stars: A Blind Astronomer Listens to the Universe, written by Amy S. Hansen with Wanda Díaz Merced, illustrated by Rocio Arreola Mendoza (Charlesbridge)
Where Only Storms Grow by Alyssa Colman (Farrar Children’s)
Whale Eyes: A Memoir About Seeing and Being Seen by James Robinson, illustrated by Brian Rea (Penguin Workshop)
Stonewall Book Awards
One of the Boys by Victoria Zeller (Arthur A. Levine)
Margaret A. Edwards Award
Candace Fleming
Children’s Literature Legacy Award
Candace Fleming
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