Recently the Association of Library Services to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association, awarded the following medals to winning titles and honor books. Below is this year’s list of honorees.

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Newbery Award Winner
Awarded for outstanding children’s literature

• Appelt, Kathi – The underneath

Newbery Honor Books

• Engle, Margarita – The surrender tree : poems of Cuba’s struggle for
  freedom
• Gaiman, Neil – The graveyard book
• Law, Ingrid – Savvy
• Woodson, Jacqueline – After Tupac & D Foster

Caldecott Winner
Awarded for excellence in illustration

• Bryant, Jennifer – A river of words : the story of William Carlos
  Williams

Caldecott Honor Books

• Frazee, Marla – A couple of boys have the best week ever
• Shulevitz, Uri – How I learned geography
• Swanson, Susan Marie – The house in the night

Geisel Award Winner
Awarded to the author and illustrator of the most distinguished contribution to beginning reader books

• Campbell, Sarah C. – Wolfsnail : a backyard predator

Geisel Honor Books

• Davis, Eleanor – Stinky
• Grant, Judyann – Chicken said, “Cluck!”
• Seeger, Laura Vaccaro – One boy
• Willems, Mo – Are you ready to play outside?

Batchelder Award Winner
For books originally published in a foreign language

• Hole, Stian – Garmann’s summer

Batchelder Honor Books

• Sunquist, Fiona – Tiger moon
• Uehashi, Nahoko – Moribito : guardian of the Spirit

Wilder Medal: Ashley Bryan
For lasting and substantial contribution to American Literature

• Bryan, Ashley – The story of lightning and thunder
• Bryan, Ashley – Beautiful blackbird
• Bryan, Ashley – Lion and the ostrich chicks, and other African folk
  tales
• Bryan, Ashley – The adventures of Aku : or, How it came about that we shall always see Okra the cat lying on a velvet cushion, while
  Okraman the dog sleeps among the ashes
• Bryan, Ashley, ill – Let it shine : three favorite spirituals
• Dunbar, Paul Laurence – Jump back, Honey : poems
• Graham, Lorenz B – How God fix Jonah
• Langstaff, John M – Climbing Jacob’s ladder : heroes of the Bible in
  African-American spirituals
• Rollins, Charlemae Hill – Christmas gif’ : an anthology of Christmas poems, songs, and stories, written by and about African-Americans

Belpre Author Award
Awarded for work that best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.

• Engle, Margarita – The surrender tree : poems of Cuba’s struggle for
  freedom

Belpre Illustrator Award
Awarded for work that best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.

• Morales, Yuyi – Just in case : a trickster tale and Spanish alphabet
  book

Belpre Honor Books

• González, Lucía M.  The storyteller’s candle =3D La velita de los cuentos
• Jiménez, Francisco. Reaching out
• Morales, Yuyi – Just in case : a trickster tale and Spanish alphabet
  book

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