Friday 15 January 2016

2016 ALA Youth Media Awards winners: youngCanLit selections


Each year at the American Library Association's midwinter meeting, the ALA honours books for young people with a full roster of awards including the:
  • John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature
  • Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children
  • Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults
  • Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award recognizing an African American author of outstanding books for children and young adults
  • Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book Award recognizing an African American illustrator of outstanding books for children and young adults
  • Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement
  • Schneider Family Book Award for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience (three age categories: Ages 0-10; Ages 11-13; Ages 13-18)
  • Alex Awards for the 10 best adult books that appeal to teen audiences
  • Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in children's video
  • Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults
  • May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award recognizing an author, critic, librarian, historian or teacher of children's literature
  • Mildred L. Batchelder Award for an outstanding children's book translated from a foreign language and subsequently published in the United States
  • Odyssey Award for best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States
  • Pura Belpré (Illustrator) Award honoring a Latino illustrator whose children's books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience
  • Pura Belpré (Author) Award honoring a Latino writer whose children's books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience
  • Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award for most distinguished informational book for children
  • Stonewall Book Award -Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award given annually to English-language children’s and young adult books of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience
  • Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for the most distinguished beginning reader book
  • William C. Morris Award for a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens
  • YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults honors the best nonfiction book published for young adults, ages 12 – 18
The ALA Youth Media Awards were announced on January 11, 2016 in Boston, and included the following titles by Canadian authors and illustrators. 

Congratulations 
to these authors/illustrators for the following honours:


Randolph Caldecott Medal:  Winner
for the most distinguished American picture book for children

Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear
Illustrated by Sophie Blackall
Written by Lindsay Mattick 
Little, Brown and Company




Schneider Family Book Award: For teens (ages 13-18): Winner
 for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience

The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
by Teresa Toten
published by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books



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