Book Awards
To accompany our 2017 ALA-themed Horn Book Herald e-newsletter (sign up!), here are some extra goodies about this year's Youth Media Award winners.Talks with RogerRoger Talks with Kelly Barnhill, Newbery Award winnerRoger Talks with Caren Stelson, Sibert Honor winner Horn Book Magazine Q&AJavaka Steptoe, Caldecott Medal winner and Coretta Scott King...
The most prestigious honors in children’s literature, the Newbery and Caldecott medals, were awarded to Kelly Barnhill for The Girl Who Drank the Moon and Javaka Steptoe for Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat on January 23rd, 2017, at the American Library Association’s midwinter meeting in Atlanta....
Winner:The Girl Who Drank the Moonby Kelly BarnhillIntermediate, Middle School Algonquin 388 pp.8/16 978-1-61620-567-6 $16.95Every year, the people of the Protectorate steel themselves for the Day of Sacrifice, when the elders take the city’s youngest baby and leave it in the woods to appease the witch — a witch no...
The year was 2015. A year in which so many people from so many backgrounds said so much about books with so few words.It was a year in which people didn’t just discuss books. They cheered and argued, raged and kvetched, praised them and condemned them.Social media wasn’t new in...
All week we've been celebrating the 2016 ALA Youth Media Award–winning authors and illustrators. Here are the winners' acceptance speeches and profiles; stay tuned for more next week!Newbery Medal: Matt de la Peña's Newbery acceptance speech for Last Stop on Market Street Profile of Matt de la Peña by Jennifer...
In case you missed it: Jerry Pinkney's 2016 Coretta Scott King/Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award speech and his 2016 Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal Acceptance speech: "Drawing My Dream." Sophie Blackall's Caldecott acceptance speech and Matt de la Peña's Newbery speech. Rita Williams-Garcia's Coretta Scott King Author Award acceptance speech and...
The first time I met Matt de la Peña, he was sitting at a table in the Random House booth at the 2008 National Council of Teachers of English annual convention in San Antonio. It was shortly before the exhibit hall was scheduled to close, and the booth was empty....
Baby Matt watches his father. Photo courtesy Matt de la Peña.“I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.”This is the last line of Denis Johnson’s short story collection Jesus’ Son, and it describes perfectly the way I felt...
When I arrived at the Horn Book in the spring of 1996, it was in the midst of a dustup caused by that January’s editorial, “A Wider Vision for the Newbery,” written by then–senior editors Lauren Adams and Martha V. Parravano. They decried the Newbery-winning predominance of middle-grade fiction by...
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