Book News, including ALA Youth Media Awards

 

In September, the Library of America is releasing Ray Bradbury and Virginia Hamilton editions. More information can be found here

Finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Prize include Caste by  Isabel Wilkerson, Hammet by Maggie O' Farrell, She Come By It Natural by Sarah Smarsh, and The Dead Are Arising by Tamara Payne and Les Payne. You can see the full list here

Starting in February, DC comics will be publishing more titles in the REPRESENT! digital series.  The first issue is still free across various digital platforms,  but it looks like the next few issues will be .99. 

Amanda Gorman's poem "The Hill We Climb", the poem she wrote and read for Biden's Inauguration, will be released as a special edition book in April. 

Barron's Test Prep is offering a few of its AP test prep books for free (at least on Amazon and for kindle).

AFI's Top Ten for TV for last includes The Mandalorian   and Lovecraft Country .  Read the story here

Today, the American Library Association announced the following winners.

John Newbery Medal: When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller

Randolph Caldecott Medal: We are Water Protectors by Michela Goade

Coretta Scott King Author Book Award: Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Book Award - R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin the Queen of Soul. Illustrated by Frank Morrison.  Written by Carole Boston.

Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award: Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement: Dorothy L. Guthrie

Michael L. Prinz Award: Everything Sad is True by Daniel Nayeri

Schneider Family Book Award (3 Books): I Talk Like a River by  Jordon Scott.  Show Me a Sign  by Ann Clare LaZotte.  This is My Brain in Love By I. W. Gregorio

Alex Awards (10 adult books): Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse, The House In Cerulean Street  by TJ Klune, The Impossible First  by Colin O'Brady, Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf, The Kids are Gonna Ask by Gretchen Anthonry, The Only Good Indians  by Stephen Graham Jones, Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth, Riot Baby  by Tochi Onyebuchi, Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh, We Ride Upon Sticks: A Novel by Quan Barry

Children's Literature Legacy Award: Mildred D Taylor

Margaret A. Edwards Award: Kekla Magoon

Mildred L. Batchelder Award: Telephone Tales by Gianni Rodari

Odyssey Award (audio book): Kent State produced by Paul A. Gagne

Pura Belpre Awards : ¡Vamos! Let's Go Eat by Raul Gonzalez, Efrén Divided by Ernesto Cisneros, Furia by Yamile Saied Mendez

Robert F. Siebert Informational Book Award: Honeybee by Candace Fleming 

Excellence in Early Learning  Digital Media Award: The Imagine Neighborhood

Stonewall Book Award: We Are Little Feminists: Families by Archaa Shrivastav

Theodor Seuss Geisel Award: See the Cat: Three Stories about a Dog  by  David LaRochelle

William C. Morris Award: If These Wings Could Fly by Kyrie McCauley

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction: The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh by Candance Fleming.

Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature (3 books): Paper Son by Julie Leung, When You Trap A Tiger by  Tae Keller, The Light Between Us by Andrew Fukuda

Sydney Taylor Book Award Gold Medalists: Welcoming Elijah: A Passover Tale with a Tail, by Lesléa Newman, Turtle Boy, by M. Evan Wolkenstein and Dancing at the Pity Party, written and illustrated by Tyler Feder 

Source and Complete listing with runner-ups can be found here: ALA Awards