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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...
      

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...
      

Profile of Editor Alexandra Hightower

Future editor of Freewater. Photo courtesy of Alexandra Hightower. On a recent visit to her family home in Atlanta, Alex(andra) ­Hightower came across some papers from her tenth-grade English class. Looking at her essays and the notes in the margins, Alex was struck by how the work she did in...
      

Profile of 2023 Newbery Medal and CSK Author Award winner Amina Luqman-Dawson

Amina in seventh grade. Photo courtesy of Amina Luqman-Dawson. Working with Amina Luqman-Dawson has been nothing short of joyous. Back before the incredible double whammy of the Coretta Scott King and Newbery awards, before Freewater became a New York Times and Indie bestseller, I knew from my very first editorial...
      

2023 Newbery Medal Acceptance by Amina Luqman-Dawson

I’ll begin with gratitude. Thank you to the Newbery committee for recognizing Freewater. You read my work, connected with it, and judged it worthy, regardless of my debut status. To Laura Schreiber, the editor who plucked Freewater from an ever-flowing river of manuscripts. Laura immediately had vision and excitement for...
      

ALA Awards 2023: Horn Book Reviews of the Winners

The most prestigious honors in children’s literature, the Newbery and Caldecott medals, were awarded to Amina Luqman-Dawson for Freewater and Doug Salati for Hot Dog on January 30, 2023, at the American Library Association’s virtual LibLearnX. Also announced at the gathering were the winners of the Coretta Scott King, Pura...
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