It’s been an amazing year for children’s literature! Check out all of the wonderful titles that have won awards!
John Newbery Medal
Winner:
Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson
Honors:
Iveliz Explains It All by Andrea Beatriz Arango
The Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat
Maizy Chen’s Last Chance by Lisa Yee
Randolph Caldecott Medal
Winner:
Hot Dog illustrated by Doug Salati
Honors:
Ain’t Burned All the Bright illustrated by Jason Griffin
Berry Song illustrated by Michaela Goade
Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement illustrated by Janelle Washington
Knight Owl illustrated by Christopher Denise
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award
Winner:
I Did it! by Michael Emberley
Honors:
Fish and Wave by Sergio Ruzzier
Gigi and Ojiji by Melissa Iwai
Owl and Penguin by Vikram Madan
A Seed Grows by Antoinette Portis
Coretta Scott King Book Award
Winner (Illustrator Award):
Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual illustrated by Frank Morrison
Honors (Illustrator Awards):
Me and the Boss: A Story about Mending and Love illustrated by April Harrison
Swim Team illustrated by Johnnie Christmas
Victory. Stand! : Raising My Fist for Justice illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile
Winner (Author Award):
Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson
Honors (Author Awards):
Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Ibi Zoboi
The Talk by Alicia D. Williams
Victory. Stand! : Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith and Derrick Barnes
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal
Winner:
Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge
Honors:
Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement by Angela Joy
A Seed Grows by Antoinette Portis
Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Mara Rockliff
The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs by Chana Stiefel
Schneider Family Book Award
Winner (Young Children):
Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion by Shannon Stocker
Honors (Young Children):
In the Blue by Erin Hourigan
Winner (Middle Grades):
Wildoak by C.C. Harrington
Honors (Middle Grades):
Hummingbird by Natalie Lloyd
Honestly Elliott by Gillian McDunn
Pura Belpré Award
Winner (Illustrator):
Where Wonder Grows illustrated by Adriana M. Garcia
Honor (Illustrator):
The Coquíes Still Sing illustrated by Krystal Quiles
A Land of Books: Dreams of Young Mexihcah Word Painters illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh
Magic: Once Upon a Faraway Land illustrated by Mirelle Ortega
Phenomenal AOC: The Roots and Rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez illustrated by Loris Lora
Srta. Quinces illustrated by Kat Fajardo
Still Dreaming / Seguimos soñando illustrated by Magdalena Mora
Winner (Author):
Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega
Honors (Author):
The Coquíes Still Sing by Karina Nicole González
The Notebook Keeper: A Story of Kindness from the Border by Stephen Briseño
Tumble by Celia C. Pérez
Stonewall Book Award
Winner:
Love, Violet by Charlotte Sullivan Wild
Honor:
In the Key of Us by Mariama J. Lockington
Kapaemahu by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu
The Real Riley Mayes by Rachel Elliott
Strong by Rob Kearney & Eric Rosswood