By Lisa Patrick, Primary Trainer
The 2014 American Library Association's Youth Media Awards were announced on Monday, January 27th. According to ALA's Press Center:
"Each year the American Library Association honors books, videos, and other outstanding materials for children and teens. Recognized worldwide for the high quality they represent, the ALA Youth Media Awards, including the prestigious Newbery, Caldecott, Printz, and Coretta Scott King Book Awards, guide parents, educators, librarians, and others in selecting the best materials for youth. Selected by committees composed of librarians and other literature and media experts, the awards encourage original and creative work in the field of children’s and young adult literature and media."
Compiled by
Lisa Patrick from the ALAnews announcement, in the order listed:
John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to
children’s literature:
Winner
Flora
& Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures, by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by K.G. Campbell
Honors
Doll
Bones, by Holly Black
One
Came Home, by Amy
Timberlake
Paperboy, by Vince Vawter
The
Year of Billy Miller,
by Kevin Henkes
Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American
picture book for children:
Winner
Locomotive by Brian Floca
Honors
Flora and the Flamingo by Molly Idle
Journey by Aaron Becker
Mr. Wuffles! by David Wiesner
Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award recognizing an African American author
of outstanding books for children and young adults:
Winner
P.S.
Be Eleven, by Rita
Williams-Garcia
Honors
Darius
& Twig, by Walter Dean
Myers
March:
Book One, by John Lewis
and Andrew Aydin, illustrated by Nate Powell
Words
with Wings, by Nikki
Grimes
Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book
Award: recognizing
an African American illustrator of outstanding books for children and young
adults:
Winner
Knock
Knock: My Dad’s Dream for Me, illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Daniel Beaty
Honor
Nelson
Mandela, by Kadir
Nelson
Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New
Talent Award:
When
the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop, by Theodore Taylor III
Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton
Award for Lifetime Achievement:
Patricia and Fredrick McKissack
Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for
young adults:
Winner
Midwinterblood, by Marcus Sedgwick
Honors
Eleanor
& Park, by Rainbow
Rowell
Kingdom
of Little Wounds, by
Susann Cokal
Maggot
Moon, by Sally Gardner,
illustrated by Julian Crouch
Navigating
Early, by Clare
Vanderpool
Schneider Family Book Award for books that embody an artistic expression
of the disability experience:
Winner (ages 0-10)
A
Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin, by Jen Bryant, illustrated by Melissa
Sweet
Winner (ages 11-13)
Handbook
for Dragon Slayers, by
Merrie Haskell
Winner (ages 13-18)
Rose
under Fire, by
Elizabeth Wein
Alex Awards for the 10 best adult books that appeal
to teen audiences:
Brewster, by Mark Slouka
The
Death of Bees, by Lisa
O’Donnell
Golden
Boy: A Novel, by
Abigail Tarttelin
Help
for the Haunted, by
John Searles
Lexicon:
A Novel, by Max Barry
Lives
of Tao, by Wesley Chu
Mother,
Mother: A Novel, by
Koren Zailckas
Relish:
My Life in the Kitchen,
by Lucy Knisley
The
Sea of Tranquility
The
Universe Versus Alex Woods,
by Gavin Extence
Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in children's video:
Paul R. Gagne and Melissa Reilly Ellard
of Weston Woods Studios, Inc., producers of Bink
& Gollie: Two for One, are the Carnegie Medal winners. The video’s cast
is anchored by Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome, with music by David Mansfield.
Tony Fucile’s artwork is brilliantly brought to life by Chuck Gammage
Animation.
Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for
young adults:
Markus Zusak is the 2014 Edwards Award
winner.
May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award recognizing an author, critic,
librarian, historian or teacher of children's literature, who then presents a
lecture at a winning host site:
Brian Selznick will deliver the 2015
lecture.
Mildred L. Batchelder Award for an outstanding children's book
originally published in a language other than English in a country other than
the United States , and
subsequently translated into English for publication in the United States
Winner
Mister
Orange, by Truus Matti,
translated by Laura Watkinson
Honors
The Bathing Costume or the
Worst Vacation of My Life,
by Charlotte Moundlic, illustrated by Olivier Tallec, translated by Claudia Zoe
Bedrick
My Father’s Arms Are a
Boat, by Stein Erik
Lunde, illustrated by Øyvind Torseter, translated by Kari Dickson
The War Within These Walls, by Aline Sax, illustrated by Caryl
Strzelecki, translated by Laura Watkinson
Odyssey Award for best audiobook produced for children
and/or young adults, available in English in the United States
Winner
Scowler, by Daniel Kraus, narrated by Kirby
Heyborne, produced by Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio
Publishing Group
Honors
Better Nate Than Ever, written and narrated by Tim Federle,
produced by Simon and Schuster Audio
Creepy Carrots! written by Aaron Reynolds, illustrated
by Peter Brown, narrated by James Naughton,
produced by Weston Woods Studios, Inc.
Eleanor & Park, written by Rainbow Rowell, narrated by
Rebecca Lowman and Sunil Malhotra, produced by Listening Library, an imprint of
the Random House Audio Publishing Group
Matilda, written by Roald Dahl, narrated by
Kate Winslet, produced by Penguin Audio, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Pura Belpré (Author) Award honoring a Latino writer whose
children's books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural
experience:
Winner
Yaqui
Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, by Meg Medina
Honors
The
Lightning Dreamer: Cuba
The
Living, by Matt de la
Peña
Pancho
Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant’s Tale, by Duncan Tonatiuh
Pura Belpré (Illustrator) Award honoring a Latino illustrator whose
children's books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural
experience:
Winner
Niño
Wrestles the World, by
Yuyi Morales
Honors
Maria
Had a Little Llama / María Tenía una Llamita, by Angela Dominguez
Pancho
Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant’s Tale, by Duncan Tonatiuh
Tito Puente: Mambo King /
Rey del Mambo,
illustrated by Rafael López, written by Monica Brown
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book
Award for most distinguished informational book for children:
Winner
Parrots
over Puerto Rico, by
Susan L. Roth & Cindy Trumbore, illustrated by Susan L. Roth
Honors
Locomotive, by Brian Floca
Look
Up! Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard, by Annette LeBlanc Cate
The
Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius, by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan
A
Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin, by Jen Bryant, illustrated by Melissa
Sweet
Stonewall Book Award - Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s &
Young Adult Literature Award given
annually to English-language works of exceptional merit for children or teens
relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience:
Winners
Beautiful
Music for Ugly Children,
by Kirstin Cronn-Mills
Fat
Angie, by e. E.
Charlton-Trujillo
Honors
Better
Nate Than Ever, by Tim
Federle
Branded
by the Pink Triangle,
by Ken Setterington
Two
Boys Kissing, by David
Levithan
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for the most distinguished book for
beginning readers:
Winner
The
Watermelon Seed, by
Greg Pizzoli
Honors
Ball, by Mary Sullivan
A
Big Guy Took My Ball!
by Mo Willems
Penny
and Her Marble, by
Kevin Henkes
William C. Morris Award for a debut book published by a
first-time author writing for teens:
Winner
Charm
& Strange, by
Stephanie Kuehn
Honors
Belle
Epoque, by Elizabeth
Ross
Dr.
Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets,
by Evan Roskos
In
the Shadow of Blackbirds,
by Cat Winters
Sex
& Violence, by
Carrie Mesrobian
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction
for Young Adults:
Winner
The Nazi Hunters: How a
Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World’s Most Notorious Nazi, by Neal Bascomb
Honors
Courage Has No Color: The
True Story of the Triple Nickles, America’s First Black Paratroopers, by Tanya Lee
Stone
Go:
A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design, by Chip Kidd
Imprisoned: The Betrayal of
Japanese Americans During World War II, by Martin W. Sandler
The President Has Been Shot! The
Assassination of John F. Kennedy, by James L. Swanson
