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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 CSK Illustrator Award Winners
Winner The Library in the Woods by Calvin Alexander Ramsey; illus. by R. Gregory Christie Primary, Intermediate Carolrhoda 32 pp. 8/25 9781541599123 $19.99 In 1959, a Black boy moves from the countryside to segregated Roxboro, North Carolina. There, he discovers a library for Black people that...
Reviews of the 2026 CSK Author Award Winners
Winner Will’s Race for Home by Jewell Parker Rhodes Intermediate Little, Brown 208 pp. 1/25 9780316299336 $17.99 e-book ed. 9780316299541 $9.99 In this coming-of-age Western, twelve-year-old Will Samuels and his father, a stoic, formerly enslaved man, leave their sharecropper home in Texas for the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889. Along...
Profile of 2025 CSK Illustrator Award winner C. G. Esperanza
Charles George Esperanza, C. G., has a gift for illustrating stories. His choice of palette paints the plot on canvas. His brushstrokes create characters so real and relatable, you feel like you’re a part of the setting, a character in the landscape. His thoughtful execution of the stories on the...
Profile of 2025 CSK Author Award winner Jason Reynolds
Jason Reynolds sits on the rooftop of his DC home, overlooking the warm sunset, telling me stories of his late father riding motorcycles, and says, “Build your archive.” He wears all black and hobbles up the winding staircase carrying a smooth bottle of water. He does not walk fast. Everything...
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 CSK–Virginia Hamilton Award Acceptance by Carolyn L. Garnes
First, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to the Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement Jury for honoring me with this prestigious award. I humbly accept the 2025 Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement. At the same time, I feel a mix of emotions, as my dear friend...
2025 CSK Illustrator Award Acceptance by C. G. Esperanza
One night, a few very talented illustrators represented by my agency, Gallt and Zacker, had dinner after the Original Art show at the Society of Illustrators. All of them were among the best at what they do in the picture book field. I happened to sit across from Sean Rubin,...
2025 CSK Author Award Acceptance by Jason Reynolds
During the pandemic, while being quarantined with the rest of the world, I found myself unable to read or write much. Because of this, I, like many of us, slipped down the rabbit hole (or mudslide or goldmine or cesspool, depending on the day) of the internet. My questions were...
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...
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