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ALA Announces 2023 Youth Media Award Winners

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The American Library Association (ALA) today announced the 2023 Youth Media Award winners — the top books, digital media, video and audio books for children and young adults – including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery and Printz awards – during LibLearnX: The Library Learning Experience in New Orleans.

Award-winning genre books included:

Schneider Family Book Award, middle grade: 

  • Hummingbird, written by Natalie Lloyd

The Schneider Family Book Awards “honor an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.”

Alex Awards

  • Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution, by R. F. Kuang
  • Daughter of the Moon Goddess, by Sue Lynn Tan
  • The Kaiju Preservation Society, by John Scalzi

The Alex Awards are adult books w/appeal for teen readers.

Also of genre interest are runners-up to the medalists, designated honor books.

Newbery Honor:  The Last Mapmaker, written by Christina Soontornvat

Printz Honor: Scout’s Honor, written by Lily Anderson

Printz Honor, Stonewall and Sydney Taylor Award: When the Angels Left the Old Country, written by Sacha Lamb

Coretta Scott King Author Honor:  Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler, written by Ibi Zoboi

The Sydney Taylor Book Award is “presented annually to outstanding books for children and teens that authentically portray the Jewish experience,” Newbery awards and honors the best children’s books, Printz awards and honors the best YA books, Coretta Scott King awards and honors the best books for children and young adults that reflect the African-American experience. 

Thanks to N. for identifying the works of genre interest. The complete press release containing all the award winners follows the jump.

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ALA Announces 2022 Youth Media Award Winners

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The American Library Association (ALA) today announced the 2022 Youth Media Award winners — the top books, digital media, video and audio books for children and young adults – including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery and Printz awards – virtually during LibLearnX: The Library Learning Experience.

Congratulations to Ryka Aoki, Genevieve Gornichec, T.L Huchu, Everina Maxwell, Rachel Smythe, and Heather Walter whose genre novels received Alex Awards for the 10 best adult books that appeal to teen audiences.

Also of genre interest:

Newbery Medal winner The Last Cuentista, written by Donna Barba Higuera, is about “a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra’s world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children — among them Petra and her family — have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race.“ Higuera’s book also won the Pura Belpré Children’s Author Award.

Newbery Honor Book — A Snake Falls to Earth, written by Darcie Little Badger.

Mildred L. Batchelder Award — Temple Alley Summer by Sachiko Kashiwaba.

The Sydney Taylor Body-of-Work Award, which recognizes an author or entity who has made a substantial contribution over time to the genre of Jewish children’s literature, went to Jane Yolen.

The complete list of 2022 award winners follows the jump.

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