2013 ALA Children's Literature Award-Winners
2013 ALA Children's Literature Award-Winners 2013
Caledecott & Newbery Winners
Michael L. Printz and Coretta Scott King Award Winners
Sneider Family Award
The American Library Association top books, video and audiobooks for children and young adults 2013 award winners. Recognized worldwide for the high quality they represent, ALA awards guide parents, educators, librarians and others in selecting the best materials for youth. Selected by judging committees of librarians and other children’s experts, the awards encourage original and creative work:
✸ John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature:
One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate (HarperCollins)
✸ Newbery Honor Books:
“Three Times Lucky” by Sheila Turnage and published by Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group.
Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick)
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin (Flash Point/Roaring Brook Press)
Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage (Dial/Penguin)
✸ Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children:
I Want My Hat Back, illustrated and written by Jon Klassen (Candlewick)
✸ Caldecott Honor Books
Creepy Carrots, illustrated by Peter Brown, written by Aaron Reynolds (Simon & Schuster)
Extra Yarn, illustrated by Jon Klassen, written by Mac Barnett (Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins)
Green, illustrated and written by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (Neal Porter Books/Roaring Brook Press)
One Cool Friend, illustrated by David Small, written by Toni Buzzeo (Dial/Penguin)
Sleep Like a Tiger, illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski, written by Mary Logue (Houghton Mifflin)
✸ Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults:
In Darkness by Nick Lake (Bloomsbury Books)
✸ Printz Honor Books:
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz (Simon & Schuster)
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (Hyperion/Disney)
Dodger by Terry Pratchett (Harper/Collins)
The White Bicycle by Beverley Brenna (Red Deer Press)
✸ Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award recognizing an African American author and illustrator of outstanding books for children and young adults:
Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America, by author Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney (Disney/Jump at the Sun Books)
✸ King Author Honor Books:
Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by E. B. Lewis (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin)
No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller, by vaunda Micheaux Nelson, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie (Carolrhoda Lab/Lerner)
✸ Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book Award:
Shane W. Evans, for Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom (Neal Porter Book, published by Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership)
✸ King Illustrator Honor Book:
Kadir Nelson, illustrator and author of Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans, published by Balzar + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
✸ Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement: The award, which pays tribute to the quality and magnitude of beloved children’s author Virginia Hamilton.
Demetria Tucker is the 2013 recipient. Tucker has served as youth services coordinator within the Roanoke (Va.) Public Library System and library media specialist at the Forest Park Elementary School, where she was selected 2007 Teacher of the Year. As family and youth services librarian for the Pearl Bailey Library, a branch of the Newport News (Va.) Public Library System, Tucker now coordinates a youth leadership program, a teen urban literature club and many other programs that support the youth of her community.
✸ Schneider Family Book Award for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience:
✸ Young Children (ages 0 – 10)
Back to Front and Upside Down! written and illustrated by Claire Alexander (Eerdmans Books)
✸ Middle School Award (ages 11 – 13):
A Dog Called Homeless by Sarah Lean (Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins)
✸ Teen Award (ages 14-18):
Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am by Harry Mazer and Peter Lerangis (Simon & Schuster)
More ALA Children's Book Awards ✏ here.
