Children's Book Award Winners

 
John Newbery Medal:
The most outstanding contribution to children’s literature.
Winner: Dead End in Norvelt,
written by Jack Gantos

Honor:
Book: Inside Out & Back
Again,
written by Thanhha Lai

Breaking Stalin’s Nose, written and illustrated by Eugene Yelchin

Randolph Caldecott Medal:
 The most distinguished American picture book for children

Winner: A Ball for Daisy,
illustrated and written by Chris Raschka

Honor Books:
 Blackout, illustrated and written by John Rocco

Grandpa Green, illustrated and written by Lane Smith

Me … Jane, illustrated and written by Patrick McDonnell

Michael L. Printz Award:
Excellence in literature written for young adults

Winner: Where Things Come Back
written by John Corey Whaley

Honor Books:
Why We Broke Up, written by Daniel Handler, art by Maira Kalman

The Returning, written by Christine Hinwood

Jasper Jones, written by Craig Silvey

The Scorpio Races, written by Maggie Stiefvater

Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award:
Recognizing an African American author and illustrator of outstanding books for children and young adults

Winner: Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
 Kadir Nelson, author and illustrator

Honor Book recipients:
Eloise Greenfield, author of The Great Migration

 
Journey to the North, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist 

Patricia C. McKissack, author of Never Forgotten, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book Award:

Winner: Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom
Shane W. Evans, illustrator and author

Honor Book recipient:
Kadir Nelson, illustrator and author of Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans

Pura Belpré (Illustrator)
Award honoring a Latino writer and illustrator whose children’s books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience

Winner:
Diego Rivera: His World and Ours, illustrated and written by Duncan Tonatiuh

Honor Books:
The Cazuela that the Farm Maiden Stirred, illustrated by Rafael López, written by Samantha R. Vamos

 Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match /Marisol McDonald no combina, illustrated by Sara Palacios, written by Monica Brown

Pura Belpré (Author) Award:

Winner: Under the Mesquite,
written by Guadalupe Garcia McCall

Honor Books:
Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck, written by Margarita Engle

 Maximilian and the Mystery of the Guardian Angel: A Bilingual Lucha Libre Thriller, written by Xavier Garza

Theodor Seuss Geisel Award:
The most distinguished beginning reader book:

Winner: Tales for Very Picky Eaters
written and illustrated by Josh Schneider

Honor Books:
 I Broke My Trunk, written and illustrated by Mo Willems

 I Want My Hat Back, written and illustrated by Jon Klassen

 See Me Run, written and illustrated by Paul Meisel 

YALSA Award:
Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults honors the best nonfiction book published for young adults, ages 12 - 18, each year:  

Winner: The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery,
written by Steve Sheinkin

Finalists:
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science, written by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos

Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition, written by Karen Blumenthal

Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way), written by Sue Macy

 Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein, written by Susan Goldman Rubin

Alex Awards:
10 best adult books that appeal to teen audiences:

Big Girl Small, by Rachel DeWoskin

In Zanesville, by Jo Ann Beard

The Lover’s Dictionary,

by David Levithan

The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens,by Brooke Hauser

The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern

Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline

Robopocalypse: A Novel,

by Daniel H. Wilson

Salvage the Bones, by Jesmyn Ward

The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures, by Caroline Preston

The Talk-Funny Girl, by Roland Merullo