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ALA Awards 2019: Horn Book reviews of the winners
The most prestigious honors in children’s literature, the Newbery and Caldecott medals, were awarded to Meg Medina for Merci Suárez Changes Gears and Sophie Blackall for Hello Lighthouse on January 28, 2019, at the American Library Association’s midwinter meeting in Seattle. Also announced at the gathering were the winners of...
Reviews of the 2019 Geisel Award winners
WinnerFox the Tiger [I Can Read Book]by Corey R. Tabor; illus. by the authorPrimary Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 32 pp.8/18 978-0-06-239869-7 $16.99Paper ed. 978-0-06-239867-3 $4.99Fox thinks tigers are very cool, so he paints stripes on himself and "goes for a prowl." Soon Tiger meets Turtle, who wants to be a race...
Reviews of the 2019 Newbery Award winners
Winner Merci Suárez Changes Gearsby Meg MedinaIntermediate, Middle School Candlewick 361 pp. g9/18 978-0-7636-9049-6 $16.99Working-class Cuban American girl Mercedes “Merci” Suárez’s life in South Florida consists of spending time with her extended family and attending elite Seaward Pines Academy, where the sixth grader does community service to pay for her...
Reviews of the 2019 Caldecott Award winners
WinnerHello Lighthouseby Sophie Blackall; illus. by the authorPrimary Little, Brown 48 pp. g4/18 978-0-316-36238-2 $18.99e-book ed. 978-0-316-36237-5 $9.99Blackall’s (Finding Winnie, rev. 9/15) picture book opens as a new keeper arrives to take up his solitary duties at a lighthouse “on the highest rock of a tiny island at the edge...
Reviews of the 2019 CSK Illustrator Award winners
WinnerThe Stuff of Starsby Marion Dane Bauer; illus. by Ekua HolmesPrimary Candlewick 40 pp.9/18 978-0-7636-7883-8 $17.99From darkness, we experience the Big Bang, the birth of the universe, and the emergence of life on Earth. Holmes, known for her striking collage art (Voice of Freedom, rev. 9/15; Out of Wonder, rev....
Reviews of the 2019 CSK Author Award winners
WinnerA Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919by Claire HartfieldMiddle School, High School Clarion 196 pp. g1/18 978-0-544-78513-7 $18.99e-book ed. 978-1-328-69904-6 $9.99This readable, compelling history explores the longstanding and deeply rooted causes of the 1919 Chicago Race Riot, which left thirty-eight people dead and 537 wounded (two-thirds of...
Additional ALA Awards 2019
Alex Awardfor the ten best adult books that appeal to teen audiences The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com) The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir (Knopf) Circe by Madeline Miller (Little, Brown) Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover (Random House) The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A...
Reviews of the 2019 Belpré Illustrator Award winners
Winner Dreamersby Yuyi Morales; illus. by the authorPrimary Porter/Holiday 40 pp.9/18 978-0-8234-4055-9 $18.99e-book ed. 978-0-8234-4125-9 $18.99Spanish ed. 978-0-8234-4258-4 $18.99Two pairs of eyes shine from the cover of Morales’s book — the infant’s eyes brilliant with curiosity, his mother’s gaze pensive. These two “migrantes” arrive on “the other side, / thirsty,...
Reviews of the 2019 Belpré Author Award winners
Winner The Poet Xby Elizabeth AcevedoHigh School HarperTeen 361 pp. g3/18 978-0-06-266280-4 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-266282-8 $9.99Fifteen-year-old Xiomara, whose name means “one who is ready for war,” has been fighting her whole life. The self-described “brown and big and angry” Dominican girl from Harlem furiously confronts catcalling...
Reviews of the 2019 Printz Award winners
Winner The Poet Xby Elizabeth AcevedoHigh School HarperTeen 361 pp. g3/18 978-0-06-266280-4 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-266282-8 $9.99Fifteen-year-old Xiomara, whose name means “one who is ready for war,” has been fighting her whole life. The self-described “brown and big and angry” Dominican girl from Harlem furiously confronts catcalling boys, chafes under her...