The 2022 winners of the American Library Association’s Youth Media Awards, the top prizes in US children’s literature, include tales of trans boys, coming of age during the apocalypse ...

Jack Gantos' "Dead End in Norvelt" has won the John Newbery Medal for the best children's book of 2011. Chris Raschka's "A Ball for Daisy" won the Randolph Caldecott award for best illustrated story.

The Newbery medal was established in 1922, the Caldecott in 1937. Goade, whose other books include “Encounter,” is the first Native American to win in either category.

This year's Caldecott medal went to a book about an older sister frustrated when her baby brother "helps." The Newbery went to a middle-grade tale about a time traveler at the turn of the century.

At Little, Brown, Javaka Steptoe’s 2017 Caldecott and King Illustrator award-winning Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Dan Santat’s 2015 Caldecott-winning The ...

Caldecott Medal: The Undefeated, written by Kwame Alexander and illustrated by Kadir Nelson. Caldecott Honor Books: Bear Came Along, illustrated by LeUyen Pham and written by Richard T. Morris; ...

That is, the American Library Association named the winners of its annual youth media awards, including its oldest and best-known prizes, the Newbery and Caldecott medals. The Newbery […] ...

The American Library Association announced winners and finalists of their Youth Media awards, including the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, at a ceremony Monday . The Newbery Medal honors a ...

But the Newbery and Caldecott medals are, indeed, the Oscars of children's books, the most recognized awards in American children's literature. Advertisement Article continues below this ad ...

Wayzata poet Joyce Sidman’s “Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors,” illustrated by Connecticut-based Pamela Zagarenski, is a Caldecott Honor Book winner. Sidman won the same award in ...