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ALA Awards 2026: Horn Book Reviews of the Winners
The most prestigious honors in children’s literature, the Newbery and Caldecott medals, were awarded to Renée Watson for All the Blues in the Sky and Cátia Chien for Fireworks on January 26, 2026, by the American Library Association at the Hilton Chicago hotel. Also announced at the gathering were the winners of the...
Reviews of the 2026 Newbery Medal Winners
Winner All the Blues in the Sky by Renée Watson Middle School Bloomsbury 208 pp. 2/25 9781547605897 $17.99 e-book ed. 9781547605903 $12.59 “I didn’t know / best friends could die.” From the very first line, Watson takes a deep dive into the intricacies of grief and healing. On her thirteenth...
Profile of 2025 Newbery Medal winner Erin Entrada Kelly
Erin and Sharon at the 2021 launch of Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey at Hockessin BookShelf in Delaware. Photo courtesy of Sharon Huss Roat. Looking back on 2024, two-time Newbery Medalist Erin Entrada Kelly will tell you it was the worst year of her life. She spent most of it undergoing...
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,...
ALA Annual 2025
The last time I’d been to Philadelphia was for the American Library Association Midwinter Conference. It was January 2020, just-pre-pandemic crisis in the U.S., and turned out to be the last Midwinter conference in that form. This year’s ALA Annual Conference in Philly had its share of remembering and reminiscing but...
2025 Newbery Medal Acceptance by Erin Entrada Kelly
Photo courtesy of Erin Entrada Kelly. I’ll start with thank-yous. I’d like to thank the ALA and ALSC, especially the Newbery committee and its chair, Maeve Visser Knoth. I’d like to thank my editor, Virginia Duncan, and the entire team at Greenwillow Books and HarperCollins, including art director Sylvie Le...
ALA Awards 2025: Horn Book Reviews of the Winners
The most prestigious honors in children’s literature, the Newbery and Caldecott medals, were awarded to Erin Entrada Kelly for The First State of Being and Rebecca Lee Kunz for Chooch Helped on January 27, 2025, at the American Library Association’s LibLearnX conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Also announced at the gathering...
Reviews of the 2025 Newbery Medal Winners
Winner The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly Intermediate, Middle School Greenwillow 272 pp. 3/24 9780063337312 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780063337336 $9.99 It’s the summer of 1999. Twelve-year-old Delawarean Michael has worries, chief among them the approach of Y2K. What if everything falls apart? Family finances are precarious, so...
Profile of 2024 Newbery Medal winner Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers. Photo: Mark Davis. Dave Eggers believes that true friends exist. His unwavering faith is carried onto every page of The Eyes and the Impossible, the 2024 winner of the Newbery Medal. Its protagonist, Johannes, is a free dog, a fast dog — oh, what a fast dog —...
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...
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