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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 Pura Belpré Children's Author Award Winners
Winner The Pecan Sheller by Lupe Ruiz-Flores Middle School Carolrhoda 256 pp. 4/25 9798765610527 $19.99 REVIEW TO COME Honors A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez by María Dolores Águila Intermediate, Middle School Roaring Brook 304 pp. 9/25 ...
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 Pura Belpré Author Award Winners
Winner Lola by Karla Arenas Valenti; illus. by Islenia Mil Intermediate Knopf 256 pp. 9/24 9780593177006 $17.99 Library ed. 9780593177013 $20.99 e-book ed. 9780593177020 $10.99 Lola, ten, lives in Mexico City in a house built around the Tree. The Tree is full of life, and spirit-like beings called chaneques protect...
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 Pura Belpré Author Award Winners
Winner Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martín; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Dial 320 pp. 8/23 9780593462287 $24.99 Paper ed. 9780593462294 $14.99 e-book ed. 9780593462300 $9.99 Martín’s humorous and heartfelt memoir recounts a momentous 1977 road trip with his “big Mexican American family.” Apá and Amá gather...
Reflections on the Pura Belpré Award: An Interview with Sandra Ríos Balderrama
Sandra Ríos Balderrama and Oralia Garza de Cortés began working together in 1986 to create what would become the Pura Belpré Award. The award was established ten years later (with the help of Linda Perkins and Toni Bissessar) for writers and artists whose work “portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino...
On the Futurity of the Pura Belpré Award
A reflection on the future of the Pura Belpré Award must begin with a meditation on the past. As Black, Caribbean, Afro-Atlantic, and Afro-Latinx scholars teach us, the future is in the past, and the present is in the future. My contemplation, then, begins with two iconic photographs of Pura...
Lighting the Candle: Thank You, Mr. Baumgartner
Irene (seated, second from left) and Pam (seated, fifth from left) in third grade. (Photo courtesy of Pam Muñoz Ryan.) If I hadn’t been a failed violinist, I might never have become a writer. When I was in fourth grade, the public school I attended had a coveted orchestra program....
HBTV: Pura Belpré Award Videos
Welcome to HBTV, our exciting new (occasional) children's book-related TV show! In the inaugural episode of HBTV, I talk about the Pura Belpré Awards, on the occasion of its 25th anniversary, with Belpré Award winner Meg Medina and award co-founder Sandra Ríos Balderrama. My Belpré conversation continues in...
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