ALA Awards for 2013: Newbery, Caldecott and More!
by Katherine Applegate, illustrated by Patricia Castelao
Newbery Honor Winners:
Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz
Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage
Bomb by Steve Sheinkin
Caldecott Honor Winners:
Extra Yarn written by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Jon Klassen
Sleep Like a Tiger written by Mary Logue, illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski
One Cool Friend, written by Toni Buzzeo, illustrated by David Small
Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Creepy Carrots written by Aaron Reynolds, illustrated by Peter Brown
This award is given to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers.
Geisel Award Winner
Up! Tall! and High! by Ethan Long
Geisel Honor Winners
Rabbit and Robot by Cece Bell
Let's Go for a Drive by Mo Willems
Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by Eric Litwin, illustrations by James Dean
This award recognizes outstanding books for young adults and children by African American authors and illustrators that reflect the African American experience.
Author Winner
Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America
by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Illustrator Winner
I, Too Am America by Langston Hughes
illustrated by Brian Collier
Author Honors
Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson,
illustrated by EB Lewis
No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Micheaux, Harlem Bookseller
by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson,
illustrated by R Gregory Christie
Illustrator Honors
Kadir Nelson
I Have a Dream by Dr Martin Luther King
Christopher Myers
H.O.R.S.E. by Christopher Myers
Daniel Minter
Ellen's Broom by Kelly Starling Lyons
This award is for a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms and celebrates the Latino cultural experience with an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.
Author Winner
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Illustrator Winner
Martín de Porres: The Rose in the Desert
illustrated by David Diaz
written by Gary D Schmidt
Author Honors
The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano
by Sonia Manzano
(the debut novel by "Maria" from Sesame Street!!)
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Award
The Wilder Award honors an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made, over a period of years, a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.
Katherine Paterson
The Wilder Award honors an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made, over a period of years, a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.
Katherine Paterson
This award honors an author as well as a specific body or his/her work that has proven popular over a period of time. It recognizes an author's work in helping adolescents become aware of themselves and addressing questions about their role and importance in relationships, society and the world.
This award is given to a book that exemplifies literary excellence in Young Adult Literature.
Author Winner
In Darkness by Nick Lake
Author Honors
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Dodger by Terry Pratchett
The White Bicycle by Beverly Brenna
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
This award is presented to English language books that have exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered experience.
Author Winner
The Last Nude by Ellis Avery
Author Honors
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov by Paul Russell
Chulito by Charles Rice-Gonzalez
The Absolutist by John Boyne
Award is for Outstanding Children's Books originally published in a Language other than English.
Author Winner
My Family for the War
by Anne C Voorhoeve
Author Honors
Son of a Gun
Anne de Graaf
A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return
Zeina Abirached
The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18. The winning titles are selected from the previous year's publishing.
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by David Zimmerman, published by Soho Press, Inc.
Girlchild
by Tupelo Hassman, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Juvenile in Justice
by Richard Ross, published by Richard Ross
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
by Robin Sloan, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
My Friend Dahmer
by Derf Backderf, published by Abrams ComicArts, an imprint of Abrams
One Shot at Forever
by Chris Ballard, published by Hyperion
Pure
by Julianna Baggott, published by Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.
The Round House
by Louise Erdrich, published by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Tell the Wolves I’m Home
by Carol Rifka Brunt, published by Dial Press, an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.
Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
by Maria Semple, published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.
