This Year’s Winners of the ALA Youth Media Awards

The winners of this yr’s American Library Association’s Youth Media Awards have been introduced. These awards, typically colloquially known as the Oscars of kids’s literature, honor the greatest books revealed for younger individuals in the prior yr. This yr’s winners are as follows:

American Indian Youth Literature Award

• Picture Book Winners: Forever Cousins by Laurel Goodluck (Mandan & Hidatsa and Tsimshian), illustrated by Jonathan Nelson (Navajo/Diné) and A Letter for Bob by Kim Rogers (Wichita & Affiliated Tribes), illustrated by Jonathan Nelson (Navajo/Diné)
• Picture Book Honors: Celebration by Lily Hope (Tlingit), illustrated by Kelsey Mata Foote (Tlingit); Contenders by Traci Sorell (Cherokee Nation), illustrated by Arigon Starr (Kickapoo Tribe); Berry Song written and illustrated by Michaela Goade (Tlingit Nation) and revealed by Little; Remember by Joy Harjo (Mvskoke Nation), illustrated by Michaela Goade (Tlingit Nation); and Rock Your Mocs by Laurel Goodluck (Mandan & Hidatsa and Tsimshian), illustrated by Madelyn Goodnight (Chickasaw Nation)
• Middle Grade Winner: We Still Belong by Christine Day (Upper Skagit), illus by Madelyn Godonighat (Chickasaw Nation)
• Middle Grade Honors: Eagle Drums written and illustrated by Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson (Iñupiaq); Mascot by Traci Sorell (Cherokee Nation) and Charles Waters, jacket illustration by Nicole Neidhardt (Navajo); Jo Jo Makoons: Fancy Pants by Dawn Quigley (Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe), illustrated by Tara Audibert (Wolastoqey); Jo Jo Makoons: Snow Day by Dawn Quigley (Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe), illustrated by Tara Audibert (Wolastoqey); She Persisted: Maria Tallchief by Christine Day (Upper Skagit), illustrated by Alexandra Boiger and Gillian Flint; She Persisted: Wilma Mankiller by Traci Sorell (Cherokee Nation), illustrated by Alexandra Boiger and Gillian Flint; She Persisted: Deb Haaland by Laurel Goodluck (Mandan & Hidatsa and Tsimshian), illustrated by Alexandra Boiger and Gillian Flint
• Young Adult Winner: Rez Ball by Byron Graves (Ojibwe), jacket artwork by Natasha Donovan (Metis)
• Young Adult Honors: Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians), Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline (Métis), Man Made Monsters by Andrea L. Rogers (Cherokee Nation), Running with Changing Woman by Lorinda Martinez (Diné), Heroes of the Water Monster by Brian Young (Navajo Nation)

Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature

The Sydney Taylor Book Award

For books that almost all authentically symbolize the Jewish expertise

Schneider Family Book Award

For books that authentically depict the incapacity expertise

The Stonewall Book Awards

For books with distinctive benefit referring to the homosexual/lesbian/bisexual/transgender expertise

Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award

Coretta Scott King – John Steptoe New Talent Award

Coretta Scott King Book Award for Illustrator

Coretta Scott King Book Award for Author

Pura Belpré Awards

The Alex Awards

For the greatest books revealed for an grownup viewers with teen enchantment

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults

William C Morris Award for Best Debut YA

Margaret A. Edwards Award

For vital and enduring contribution to the world of youth literature

Michael L. Printz Award

Given to the most distinguished work of literature for younger adults

• Winner: The Collectors edited by AS King, with contributions from M.T. Anderson, e.E. Charlton-Trujillo, A.S. King, David Levithan, Cory McCarthy, Anna-Marie McLemore, G. Neri, Jason Reynolds, Randy Ribay, and Jenny Torres Sanchez
• Honor: Fire from the Sky by Moa Backe Astot
• Honor: Gather by Kenneth M. Cadow
• Honor: The Girl I Am Was and Never Will Be by Shannon Gibney
• Honor: Salt the Water by Candice Iloh

Mildred L. Batchelder Award

Given for the greatest kids’s books in translation

Robert F. Sibert Medal

Honoring the greatest informational books for youngsters

The Odyssey Award

For greatest audiobooks for younger listeners

The Children’s Literature Legacy Award

Theodor Seuss Geisel Award

For the most distinguished starting reader ebook

Caldecott Awards

These honor the most distinguished image books for youngsters

John Newbery Medal

Given to the writer of the most distinguished work of literature for youngsters

In addition, Kyle Lukoff gained the ALSC Children’s Literature Lecture Award and can ship a lecture subsequent spring.

Note: this listing doesn’t embody all of the honor winners in a number of classes, as a press launch of the full roster of honors has but to be launched. You can test the American Library Association web site later at the moment for extra successful titles.