ALA Awards for 2012 - Newbery and Caldecott Winners and More
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
Newbery Honor Winners:
Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
Breaking Stalin's Nose By Eugene Yelchin
Caldecott Award Winner
A Ball for Daisy
Written and illustrated by Chris Raschka
Caldecott Honor Winners
Blackout written and illustrated by John Rocco
Grandpa Green written and illustrated by Lane Smith
Me . . . Jane written and illustrated by Patrick McDonnell
This award is given to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers.
Winner:
Tales for Very Picky Eaters by Josh Schneider
Honorees:
I Broke My Trunk by Mo Willems
I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen
See Me Run by Paul Meisel
recognize outstanding books for young adults and children by African American authors and illustrators that reflect the African American experience.
Coretta Scott King Author Book Award Winner:
Heart and Soul by Kadir Nelson
Author Honors:
The Great Migration: Journey to the North by Eloise Greenfield
Never Forgotten by Patricia C McKissak
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Book Award Winner:
by Shane Evans
Illustrator Honor:
Ashley Bryan
In 1962 Bryan was first African American to write and illustrate a children's book.
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.
Text:
Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Illustration Winner:
Diego Rivera: His World and Ours by Duncan Tonatiuh
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.
2012 Winner: Susan Cooper
William C Morris Award
honors a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature.
Winner
Where Things Come Back John Coery Whaley
Nominees:
Girl of Fire Thorns by Rae Carson
Paper Covers Rock by Jenny Hubbard
Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia Mccall
Between Shades of Gray by Rutya Sepetys
is given to a book that exemplifies literary excellence in Young Adult Literature.
Where Things Come Back John Coery Whaley
Nominees:
Why We We Broke Up by Daniel Handler with illustrations by Maira Kalman
The Returning by Christine Hinwood
Jasper Jones by Craig SIlvey
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefavter
The Sibert Award honors the most distinguished informational book published in English in the preceding year for its significant contribution to children’s literature.
Winner:
Balloons Over Broadway written and illustrated by Melissa Sweet
Honors:
Black & White: The Confrontation between Revernd Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor by Larry Dane Brimmer
Drawing from Memory written and illustrated by Alan Say
The Elephant Scientist written by Caitlin O'Connell and Donna M Jackson
Witches! The Absolutey True Tale of Disaster in Salem
written and illustrated by Rosalyn Schanzer
Black & White: The Confrontation between Revernd Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor by Larry Dane Brimmer
Drawing from Memory written and illustrated by Alan Say
The Elephant Scientist written by Caitlin O'Connell and Donna M Jackson
Witches! The Absolutey True Tale of Disaster in Salem
written and illustrated by Rosalyn Schanzer
recognizes originally published in a Language other than English.
Winner:
Soldier Bear
written by Bibi Dumon Tak, illustrated by Philip Hopman,
translated by Laura Watkinson
The Lily Pond by Annika Thor, translated by Linda Schneck
The Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award and theStonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award are presented to English language books that have exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered experience.
Putting Makeup on a Fat Boy by Bill Wright
Stonewall Honor Books:
a + e 4ever by Ilike Merey
Money Boy by Paul Yee
Pink by Lili Wilkinson
with or without you by Brian Farrey
This annual award will be given to the producer of the best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States.
Winner:
Rotters by Daniel Kraus
Narrated by Kirby Heyborn
Nominees:
Ghetto Cowboy by G Neri, narrated by JD Jackson
Okay for Now by Gary D Schmidt, narrated by Lincoln Hoppe
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefavter,
narrated by Steve West and Fiona Hardingham
Young Fredle by Cynthia Voigt, narrated by Wendy Carter
