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More ALA 2012 Children's Book Awards
Alex Awards for the 10 best adult books that appeal to teen audiences:
- Big Girl Small, by Rachel DeWoskin, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- In Zanesville, by Jo Ann Beard, published by Little, Brown & Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.
- The Lover’s Dictionary, by David Levithan, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens, by Brooke Hauser, published by Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
- The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern, published by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.
- Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline, published by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.(ISBN: 9780307887436)
- Robopocalypse: A Novel, by Daniel H. Wilson, published by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.
- Salvage the Bones, by Jesmyn Ward, published by Bloomsbury USA
- The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures, by Caroline Preston, published by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
- The Talk-Funny Girl, by Roland Merullo, published by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.
Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in children's video:
Paul R. Gagne and Melissa Reilly Ellard (Weston Woods Studios, Inc.), producers of Children Make Terrible Pets based on the book by Peter Brown, narrated by Emily Eiden, with music by Jack Sundrud and Rusty Young, and animation by Soup2Nuts.
Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults:
Susan Cooper whose books include: The Dark Is Rising Sequence: Over Sea, Under Stone; The Dark Is Rising; Greenwitch; The Grey King; and Silver on the Tree.
May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award recognizing an author, critic, librarian, historian or teacher of children's literature, who then presents a lecture at a winning host site:
Michael Morpurgo will deliver the 2013 lecture.
Born in England, Morpurgo was teaching when he discovered the magic of storytelling and began writing. His novel, War Horse has been adapted for film.
Mildred L. Batchelder Award for an outstanding children's book translated from a foreign language and subsequently published in the United States:
Soldier Bear by Bibi Dumon Tak, illustrated by Philip Hopman, translated by Laura Watkinson, originally published in Dutch in 2008 as Soldaat Wojtek (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.)
Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book:
The Lily Pond by Annika Thor and translated by Linda Schenck (Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books)
Odyssey Award for best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States:
Rotters based on the book by Daniel Kraus and narrated by Kirby Heyborne (produced by Listening Library, an imprint of Random House Audio Publishing
Group, Random House, Inc.)
Odyssey Honor Audiobooks:
Ghetto Cowboy by G. Neri and narrated by JD Jackson (produced by Brilliance Audio)
Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt and narrated by Lincoln Hoppe (produced by Listening Library, an imprint of Random House Audio Publishing Group, Random House, Inc.)
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater and narrated by Steve Westand Fiona Hardingham (produced by Scholastic Inc., Scholastic Audiobooks)
Young Fredle by Cynthia Voigt and narrated by Wendy Carter(produced by Listening Library, an imprint of Random House Audio Publishing Group, Random House, Inc.)
Pura Belpré (Illustrator) Award honoring a Latino writer and illustrator whose children's books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience:
Diego Rivera: His World and
Ours by Duncan Tonatiuh and illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh (Abrams
Books for Young Readers)
Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor Books:
The Cazuela that the Farm Maiden Stirred by Samantha R. Vamos and illustrated by Rafael López (Charlesbridge)
Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match/Marisol McDonald no combina by Monica Brown and illustrated by Sara Palacios (Children’s Book Press, an imprint of Lee and Low Books Inc.)
Pura Belpré (Author) Book Award:
Under
the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall (Lee and Low Books Inc.)
Pura Belpré Author Honor Books:
Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck by Margarita Engle ( Henry Holt and Company)
Maximilian and the Mystery of the Guardian Angel: A Bilingual Lucha Libre Thriller by Xavier Garza (Cinco Puntos Press)
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award for most distinguished informational book for children:
Balloons
over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade,
written by Melissa Sweet (Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, an imprint of Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company)
Robert F Sibert Honor Books:
Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor, written by Larry Dane Brimnerand (Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills Press, Inc.)
Drawing from Memory by Allen Sayand (Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.)
The Elephant Scientist by Caitlin O’Connell and Donna M. Jackson, photographs by Caitlin O’Connell and Timothy Rodwelland (Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company)
Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem written and illustrated by Rosalyn Schanzerand published by the National Geographic Society.
Stonewall Book Award Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature Award given annually to English-language children’s and young adult books of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience:
Putting
Makeup on the Fat Boy by Bil Wright
(Simon & Schuster BFYR, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s
Publishing Division)
Four Stonewall Honor Books:
A + E 4ever, by Ilike Merey(Lethe Press, Inc.)
Money Boy by Paul Yee (Groundwood Books, an imprint of House of Anansi Press)
Pink by Lili Wilkinson (HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins)
With or Without You by Brian Farrey(Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division)
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for the most distinguished beginning reader book:
Tales
for Very Picky Eaters written and illustrated by Josh Schneider (Clarion Books, an
imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Theodor Geisel Honor Books
I Broke My Trunk by Mo Willems (Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group)
I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen (Candlewick Press)
See Me Run by Paul Meisel (Holiday House)
William C. Morris Award for a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens:
Where
Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley (Atheneum Books for Young Readers,
an imprint of Simon & Schuster)
William C. Morris Finalists for the award:
Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson (Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
Paper Covers Rock by Jenny Hubbard (Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books)
Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall (Lee and Low Books)
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys (Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group USA)
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults honors the best nonfiction book published for young adults, ages 12 – 18, each year:
The
Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery by Steve Sheinkin (Flash Point/Roaring Brook
Press, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group)
YALSA Award Finalists:
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos (Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition by Karen Blumenthal (Flash Point/Roaring Brook Press, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group)
Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) by Sue Macy (National Geographic Children’s Books)
Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein by Susan Goldman Rubin (Charlesbridge)
