ALA’s 2011 Youth Media Awards Announced
Posted by: Courtney Jones
Since we can’t all be in San Diego, we’re bringing the Youth Media Awards to you. This morning some of the most prestigious awards in youth literature were announced at the Midwinter Meeting. Here are the 2011 award winners:
Newbery Medal
Moon Over Manifest, by Clare Vanderpool (Delacorte)
Caldecott Medal
A Sick Day for Amos McGee, by Philip C. Stead, Illustrated by Erin C. Stead (Roaring Brook/Neal Porter)
Printz Award
Ship Breaker, by Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
Coretta Scott King Author Award
One Crazy Summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia (Amistad)
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave, by Laban Carrick Hill, illustrated by Bryan Collier (Little, Brown)
Odyssey Award
The True Meaning of Smekday, by Adam Rex, read by Bahni Turpin (Listening Library)
William C. Morris Award
The Freak Observer, by Blythe Woolston (Carolrhoda/Lab)
For the full roundup of winners, honorees, and lists, check out ALA’s official press release.
January 14th, 2011 at 10:31 am
[...] for everyone. To add insult to injury, the Today Show bumped Clare Vanderpool and Erin Stead, the winners of the Newbery and Caldecott medals, to interview Ms. Polizzi. It’s epic. Matt Lauer asks her to define “badonk”** [...]