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

H
onor 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

H
onor 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