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Profile of 2025 Children's Literature Legacy Award winner Carole Boston Weatherford
I fell in love with Black history at a very young age. I come from a family with roots in Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Detroit. A family of Black cowboys, storytellers, landowners, entrepreneurs, gin makers, community leaders, and doctors. Unfortunately, I didn’t grow up seeing these stories told in the...
2024: The Year in Words and Pictures
On January 27, 2025, the Youth Media Awards were announced, as usual, during what was long known as the American Library Association’s Midwinter Conference (in recent years: LibLearnX). It seems likely that this was the last wintertime conference in that form. With so much upheaval and uncertainty (e.g., book bans,...
2025 Children's Literature Legacy Award Acceptance by Carole Boston Weatherford
I am filled with gratitude because I know that none of this had to be: not the eighty-plus books, not the nineteen American Library Association Youth Media Awards, not the NAACP Image Awards, not the nomination as Young People’s Poet Laureate, not the opportunities to travel across the country and...
Additional ALA Awards 2025
Alex Award [for the ten best adult books that appeal to teen audiences] Beautiful People: My Thirteen Truths About Disability by Melissa Blake (Hachette Go) Daughters of Shandong by Eve J. Chung (Berkley) Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom) The Witch of Colchis by Rosie Hewlett (Sourcebooks...
Big Life: A Profile of 2024 Children's Literature Legacy Award winner Pam Muñoz Ryan
Tracy Mack and Pam Muñoz Ryan. Photo courtesy of Pam Muñoz Ryan. “When there’s room in the heart, there’s room in the house,” Rosa Maria proclaims in Pam Muñoz Ryan’s picture book Mice and Beans, illustrated by Joe Cepeda. Much like this lovable character, Pam makes space for all the...
2023: The Year in Words and Pictures
Some of the most indelible imagery in Big, this year’s Caldecott Medal–winning title by Vashti Harrison, is of breaking free of constraints, as a protagonist who feels trapped “make[s] more space for herself,” emerging into a stunning double gatefold. Big was a BIG deal this year, with additional accolades including...
2024 Children's Literature Legacy Award Acceptance by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Thank you to ALA and ALSC. I was surprised and thrilled to receive the news of the Children’s Literature Legacy Award from Caroline Ward and the committee. Thank you for choosing me. It’s such a lovely salute to my work. My children are here with their spouses and loved ones,...
Additional ALA Awards 2024
Alex Award [for the ten best adult books that appeal to teen audiences] Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Pantheon) The Talk by Darrin Bell (Holt) Maame by Jessica George (St. Martin's) Bad Cree by Jessica Johns [nehiyaw/Sucker Creek First Nation] (Doubleday) I Will Greet the Sun Again by...
2022: The Year in Words and Pictures
This year’s ALA Youth Media Award winners represent a range of experiences, expertise, interests, and topics. There are previous, beloved winners and there are newcomers to the stage — notably Doug Salati for the Caldecott Medal and Amina Luqman-Dawson for both the Newbery and Coretta Scott King Author awards. Three...
Profile of 2023 Children's Literature Legacy Award winner James E. Ransome
Jonda C. McNair and James E. Ransome in 2001. Photo: James J. Bishop. One of the highlights of my time as a doctoral student was serving as a hostess for esteemed authors and illustrators when they came to town to participate in the now-defunct The Ohio State University Children’s Literature...
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