American Library Association 2016 Children’s and Young Adult Literature Awards Announced at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in Boston, MA, January 11, 2016
2016 ASSOCIATION FOR LIBRARY SERVICE TO CHILDREN (ALSC) AWARDS
John Newbery Medal (distinguished writing for children)
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña. Illustrated by Christian Robinson. Putnam, 2015
Honor Books The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. Dial, 2015 Roller Girl written and illustrated by Victoria Jamieson. Dial, 2015 Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan. Scholastic Press, 2015
Randolph Caldecott Award (distinguished illustration for children)
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear illustrated by Sophie Blackall. Written by Lindsay Mattick. Little, Brown, 2015
Honor Books Trombone Shorty illustrated by Bryan Collier. Written by Troy Andrews. Abrams, 2015 Waiting illustrated and written by Kevin Henkes. Greenwillow / HarperCollins, 2015 Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement illustrated by Ekua Holmes. Written by Carole Boston Weatherford. Candlewick Press, 2015 Last Stop on Market Street illustrated by Christian Robinson. Written by Matt de la Peña. Putnam, 2015
Mildred L. Batchelder Award (to the publisher of the outstanding translated book)
The Wonderful Fluffy Little Squishy written and illustrated by Beatrice Alemagna. Translated from the French by Claudia Zoe Bedrick. U.S. ed.: Enchanted Lion Books, 2015
Honor Books Adam and Thomas by Aharon Appelfeld. Illustrated by Philippe Dumas. Translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green. Seven Stories Press, 2015 Grandma Lives in a Perfume Village by Fang Suzhen. Illustrated by Sonja Danowski. Translated from the Chinese by Huang Xiumin. NorthSouth Books, 2015 Written and Drawn by Henrietta written, illustrated and translated from the Spanish by Liniers. TOON Books, 2015
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award (author and illustrator of distinguished beginning reader book)
Don’t Throw It to Mo! by David Adler. Illustrated by Sam Ricks. Penguin, 2015
Honor Books A Pig, a Fox, and a Box written and illustrated by Jonathan Fenske. Penguin, 2015 Supertruck written and illustrated by Stephen Savage. A Neal Porter Book / Roaring Brook Press, 2015 Waiting written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes. Greenwillow/HarperCollins, 2015
Pura Belpré Author Award (cosponsored by REFORMA) (outstanding writing by a Latino author)
Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir by Margarita Engle. Atheneum, 2015
Honor Books The Smoking Mirror by David Bowles. IFWG, 2015 Mango, Abuela, and Me by Meg Medina. Illustrated by Angela Dominguez. Candlewick Press, 2015
Pura Belpré Illustrator Award (cosponsored by REFORMA) (outstanding illustration by a Latino artist)
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music illustrated by Rafael López. Written by Margarita Engle. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015
Honor Books My Tata’s Remedies = Los remedios de mi tata illustrated by Antonio Castro L. Written by Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford. Cinco Puntos Press Mango, Abuela, and Me illustrated by Angela Dominguez. Written by Meg Medina. Candlewick Press, 2015 Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras illustrated and written by Duncan Tonatiuh. Abrams, 2015
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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award (outstanding book of information)
Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras written and illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh. Abrams, 2015
Honor Books Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans written and illustrated by Don Brown. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015 The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill club by Phillip Hoose. Farrar Straus Giroux, 2015 Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March by Lynda Blackmon Lowery. Illustrated by PJ Loughran. Dial, 2015 Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford. Illustrated by Ekua Holmes. Candlewick Press, 2015
Carnegie Medal (excellence in children’s video)
That is NOT a Good Idea. Weston Woods Studios, 2015
2016 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award (substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children): Jerry Pinkney
2016 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecturer: (lecture to be significant contribution to field of children’s literature): Jacqueline Woodson
2016 YOUNG ADULT LIBRARY SERVICES ASSOCIATION (YALSA) AWARDS
Michael L. Printz Award (literary excellence in young adult literature)
Bone Gap by Laura Ruby. Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins, 2015
Honor Books Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez. Carolrhoda Lab, 2015 The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick. Roaring Brook Press, 2015
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin. Roaring Brook Press, 2015
Margaret A. Edwards Award (lifetime achievement in writing for young adults)
David Levithan for The Realm of Possibility, Boy Meets Boy, Love is the Higher Law, How They Met, and Other Stories, Wide Awake, and Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
William C. Morris Award (honoring a young adult book by a first-time author)
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli. Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins, 2015
Odyssey Award (cosponsored with ALSC) (outstanding audio book)
The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. Narrated by Jayne Entwistle. Produced by Listening Library, 2015
Honor Audiobook Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan. Narrated by Mark Bramhall, David de Vries, MacLeod Andrews, and Rebecca Soler. Produced by Scholastic Audio / Paul R. Gagne, 2015
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2016 ETHNIC MULTICULTURAL INFORMATION EXCHANGE ROUND TABLE (EMIERT) AWARDS
Coretta Scott King Author Award (outstanding writing by an African American author)
Gone Crazy in Alabama by Rita Williams-Garcia. Amistad / HarperCollins, 2015
Honor Books All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely. Atheneum, 2015 The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds. Atheneum, 2015 X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz with Kekla Magoon. Candlewick Press, 2015
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award (outstanding illustrations by an African American artist)
Trombone Shorty illustrated by Bryan Collier. Written by Troy Andrews and Bill Taylor. Abrams, 2015
Honor Books The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. Written by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson. Carolrhoda, 2015 Last Stop on Market Street illustrated by Christian Robinson. Written by Matt de la Peña. Putnam, 2015
Coretta Scott King John Steptoe New Talent Author Award:
Hoodoo written by Ronald L. Smith Clarion, 2015
Coretta Scott King John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award:
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement illustrated by Ekua Holmes. Written by Carole Boston Weatherford. Candlewick Press, 2015
Coretta Scott King Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement: Jerry Pinkney
2016 ALA AWARDS
Schneider Family Book Award (to an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences)
Young Children’s Book: Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah by Laurie Ann Thompson. Illustrated by Sean Qualls. Schwartz & Wade, 2015 Middle School Books: Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt. Nancy Paulsen Books / Penguin, 2015 The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. Dial, 2015 Teen Book: The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa Toten. Delacorte Press, 2015
Stonewall Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award (to work of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender experience)
George by Alex Gino. Scholastic Press, 2015 The Porcupine of Truth by Bill Konigsberg. Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic, 2015
Honor Books Wonders of the Invisible World by Christopher Barzak. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015 Sex is a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU written by Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth. Illustrated By Fiona Smyth. Seven Stories Press, 2015
2015-2016 Asian Pacific American Library Association Youth Literature Awards (ALA Affiliate)
Picture Book: Juna’s Jar by Jane Bahk. Illustrated by Felicia Hoshino. Lee & Low, 2015 Honor Book: Drum Dream Girl by Margarita Engle. Illustrated by Rafael Lopez. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015
Children’s Literature: Full Cicada Moon by Marilyn Hilton. Dial, 2015 Honor Book: Blackbird Fly by Erin Entrada Kelly. Greenwillow / HarperCollins, 2015
Young Adult Literature: P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han. Simon & Schuster, 2015 Honor Book: Ink and Ashes by Valynne E. Maetani. Tu Books, 2015
For more information about any of these American Library Association youth literature awards, go to www.ala.org/yma. Compiled by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison