ALA Awards for 2014 - The Newbery, the Caldecott and more: Kate Di Camillo and Brian Floca take top honors!
Flora & Ulysses: The Illustrated Adventures
Honors
One Came Home by Amy Timberlake
I've had this book for a while now, review to come!
Doll Bones by Holly Black
I have wanted to read this for a while now, review to come!
Paperboy by Vince Vawter
Honors
Penny and Her Marble by Kevin Henkes
Read my review of the Elephant & Piggie books here.
This award is a new addition to the American Library Association’s Media Youth Awards. The award is donated by Dr. Katherine Schneider, and honors an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.
A Splash of Red: The Life and Times of Horace Pippin by Jen Bryant, illustrated by Melissa Sweet
I've had this book for a while now, review to come!
This award recognizes outstanding books for young adults and children by African American authors and illustrators that reflect the African American experience.
Author Winner
Author Honors
March: Book 1 by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
Darius & Twig by Walter Dean Myers
Words with Wings by Nikki Grimes
Illustrator Winner
Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me by Daniel Beaty, illustrated by Brian Collier
Illustrator Honors
Nelson Mandela by Kadir Nelson
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
Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina
Author Honors
The Living by Matt de la Peña
Review to come!
The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist by Margarita Engle
Niño Wrestles the World by Yuyi Morales
Illustrator Honors
Maria Had a Little Llama by Angela Dominguez
Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant's Tale by Duncan Tonatiuth
Tito Puente mambo King by Monica Brown, illustrated by Rafael Lopez
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.
Winner
Honors
Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool
winner of the Newbery for Moon Over Manifest in 2011.
Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner
The Kingdom of Little Wounds by Susann Cokal
Eleanor & Park by Eleanor Rowell
Read my review of this amazing book here.
This award is presented to English language books that have exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered experience.
Winner
Fat Angie by EE Charlton-Trujillo
Honors
two boys kissing by David Levithan
Better Nate than Ever by Tim Federle
Branded by the Pink Triangle
by Ken Setterington
This award goes to the producer of the best audio book produced for children and/or young adults, available in English, in the United States.
Scowler by Daniel Kraus, narrated by Kirby Heybourne,
produced by Listening Library
Eleanor & Park by Eleanor Rowell, narrated by Rebecca Lowman and Sunil Mahotra,
produced by Listening Library, an imprint of Random House
Matilda by Roald Dahl, narrated by Kate Winslet,
produced by Penguin Audio
Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds, narrated by James Naughton,
produced by Weston Woods
Better Nate than Ever by Tim Federle, narrated by Tim Federle,
produced by Simon & Schuster Audio
Award is for Outstanding Children's Books originally published in a Language other than English.
The Winner
Mister Orange by Truss Matti
HONORS
Robert F. Siebert Informational Medal
Mister Orange by Truss Matti
HONORS
My Father's Arms Are a Boat by Stein Erik Lunde and Øyvind Torster, translated by Kari Dickson
The Bathing Costume by Charlotte Moundic, illustrated by Olivier Tallec, translated by Claudia Zoe Bedrick
The War Within these Walls by Aline Sax, translated by Laura Watkinson
Parrots over Puerto Rico by Cindy Kane and Susan Roth
Locomotive by Brian Floca
The Mad Potter: George E. Orr Eccentric Genius by Jan Greenberg & Sandra Jordan
Look Up! Bird-Watching in Your Own Back Yard by Annette LeBlanc Cate
A Splash of Red: The Life and Times of Horace Pippin by Jen Bryant, illustrated by Melissa Sweet
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.
RELISH: My Life in the Kitchen,
a graphic novel by Lucy Kinsey
Help for the Haunted by John Searles
The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell
Lexicon by Max Berry
The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence
Mother, Mother by Koren Zailckas
Brewster: A Novel by Mark Slouka
The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu
Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin
The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay
