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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...
      

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 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

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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...
      

2024 Newbery Medal Acceptance by Dave Eggers

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My journey to you today started in first grade, when my teacher Mrs. Wright, an impossibly kind woman with round-framed glasses and a short brown bob, told us one day that we were going to write our own books. I was seven years old. This made no sense at all,...
      

ALA Awards 2024: Horn Book Reviews of the Winners

The most prestigious honors in children’s literature, the Newbery and Caldecott medals, were awarded to Dave Eggers for The Eyes and the Impossible and Vashti Harrison for Big on January 22, 2024, at the American Library Association’s LibLearnX conference in Baltimore, Maryland. Also announced at the gathering were the winners...
      

Reviews of the 2024 Newbery Medal Winners

Winner The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers; illus. by Shawn Harris Intermediate    Knopf    272 pp. 5/23    9781524764203    $19.99 e-book ed.  9781524764227    $10.99 Canine narrator Johannes lives wild in a park and serves as the Eyes, appointed by the penned-up Bison to report what he sees. The...
      

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...
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