{"id":20128,"date":"2017-01-24T09:40:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T14:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=20128"},"modified":"2017-01-24T09:40:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T14:40:54","slug":"your-thoughts-on-the-caldecott-coretta-scott-king-newbery-and-printz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=20128","title":{"rendered":"Your Thoughts on the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery, Printz, and More?"},"content":{"rendered":"

For children’s book people, the ALA Youth Media Awards are more\u00a0exciting\u00a0than the Oscars \u2014 and, at least for the past few years, a whole lot more diverse in their recognition of the award-worthy. Twenty categories honored 70 books, one\u00a0video, and four audiobooks, and singled out four extraordinary people in our field. This was a joyous year with gratifying recognition for distinguished work and, in my case, few surprises.\u00a0<\/span>
\nWhat did you think of the awards? What surprised you? Which books were overlooked that you’d had high hopes for?
\n(A brief discussion and full list of the\u00a0awards below.)
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\nDid you whoop with joy when Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop<\/a> was announced as the winner of the\u00a0Coretta Scott King \u2013 Virginia Hamilton<\/span> Award for Lifetime Achievement? I did. Her article, “Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors<\/a>,” has given a vocabulary to the diversity movement that has opened eyes, ears, and minds around the world.
\nFabulous writers Nikki Grimes,Sarah Dessen, and Naomi Shihab Nye were also joyfully recognized for their lifetime contributions to children’s literature, with the Laura Ingalls Wilder award, the Margaret A. Edwards award, and the May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture award, respectively. (That last award must cause both\u00a0excitement and panic to the winner,\u00a0coming as it does with a requirement to “prepare and present an original paper that makes a significant contribution to children’s literature community,” in the words of Andrew Medlar of ALSC. \u00a0No pressure!)
\nSome years, the awards\u00a0confound my predictions. This year,\u00a0their choices\u00a0brought recognition to SO\u00a0many titles I’ve loved this year! In the comments section, I’ll post titles I was surprised to find overlooked and hope you’ll do the same.
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\nHow did the publishers fare? Here’s a quick-and-dirty count (without the Alex Awards):
\nSimon & Schuster – 10 (Atheneum 3, Caitlyn Dlouhy\/Atheneum, 3, Margaret K. McElderry 1, S&S 2, Simon Spotlight 1)
\nPenguin Random House – 9 (Knopf 2, Crown 1, Delacorte 2, Dutton 2, Viking 1, Wendy Lamb 1)
\nMacmillan – 5 (Roaring Brook 3, Feiwel and Friends 1, Henry Holt 1)
\nTop Shelf Productions – 4
\nCandlewick Press – 3
\nChronicle Books – 3
\nDisney Book Group – 3 (Disney-Hyperion 2, Hyperion 1)
\nAbrams – 2
\nCharlesbridge – 2
\nHachette – 3 (Little, Brown 2, Quercus 1)
\nHarperCollins – 2 (Balzer + Bray 1, HarperTeen 1)
\nLittle Bee (Bonnier) – 2
\nAlgonquin (Workman) – 1
\nBloomsbury – 1
\nCarolrhoda Books (Lerner) – 1
\nCinco Puntos Press – 1
\nDreamscape Media – 1
\nEnchanted Lion Books – 1
\nHoughton Mifflin Harcourt – 1 (Clarion)
\nNorthSouth Books – 1
\nOrca Book Publishers – 1
\nScholastic – 1 (David Fickling)
\nSt. Martin’s – 1 (Thomas Dunne)
\nIt’s great to see several smaller houses recognized. There is so much fantastic work coming out of small, indie, and micro-presses recently!
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\nCongratulations to the outstanding authors and illustrators showered with honors this year:
\nJohn Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell – 4 awards
\nAshley Bryan – 3 awards
\nJason Reynolds – 3 awards
\nR. Gregory Christie – 2 awards
\nJavaka Steptoe – 2 awards
\nDuncan Tonatiuh – 2 awards
\nNicola Yoon – 2 awards
\nKelly Barnhill
\nJulie Berry
\nKaren Blumenthal
\nVera Brosgol
\nJen Bryant and Boris Kulikov
\nCalla Devlin
\nKenneth C. Davis
\nAlexandra Diaz
\nSarah Dessen
\nJenny Downham
\nCarson Ellis
\nRussell Freedman
\nAdam Gidwitz
\nM-E Girard
\nTaro Gomi
\nRa\u00fal Gonzalez
\nNikki Grimes
\nBonnie-Sue Hitchcock
\nLaurie Keller
\nKara LaReau
\nEmery Lord
\nAnna-Marie McLemore
\nAlbert Marrin
\nJuana Medina
\nDavid Milgrim
\nMatt Myers
\nNaomi Shihab Nye
\nLouise O’Neill
\nLinda Barrett Osborne
\nSonia Patel
\nJerry Pinkney
\nGreg Pizzoli
\nCandace Fleming and Eric Rohmann
\nGlenn Ringtved and\u00a0 Charlotte Pardi
\nRick Riordan
\nMeredith Russo
\nJos\u00e9 Sanabria and Audrey Hall
\nGavriel Savit (narrated by Allan Corduner)
\nEmma Shevah (narrated by Laura Kirman)
\nCaren Stelson
\nNoelle Stevenson (narrated by Rebecca Soler, Jonathan Davis, Marc Thompson, January LaVoy, Natalie Gold, Peter Bradbury and David Pittu)
\nRobin Stevenson
\nArne Svingen and Kari Dickson
\nPamela S. Turner and Gareth Hinds
\nMike Twohy
\nBrendan Wenzel
\nLauren Wolk
\nJeff Zentner
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\nFor score keepers, another rough count turns up 35 men earning 43 awards and 38\u00a0women earning 39\u00a0awards. (Note: my count includes the Carnegie Medal, winning narrators of the audiobooks awards as well as their authors, and translators as well as authors of the translated book awards, but excludes the Alex Award winners.)
\nDiversity experts, what say you? (There are several\u00a0ways to tally\u00a0diversity, so I am going to wait for the spokespeople of each method to weigh in!)
\nThe complete list of ALA Youth Media Awards winners can be found here<\/a>\u00a0(for those listening to web content, the link is http:\/\/ow.ly\/OmMZ308j25X).
\nI’d love to hear ShelfTalker readers’\u00a0take on the awards. What surprised you? Which books were overlooked? Which awards made you leap for joy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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