Greetings from Seattle. The tweets probably beat this blog post, but it is pretty cool to be able to share this with you. The big book winners are Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz – 2 awards and 1 honor and BOMB : the race to build and steal the world’s most dangerous weapon by Steve Sheinkin.
Alex Award: http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists/alex
Schneider Family Book Awards:
Back to front and upside down by Claire Alexander
A dog called homeless by Sarah Lean
Somebody please tell me who I am by Harry Mazer and Peter Lerangis
Stonewall Book Awards:
Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Coretta Scott King awards:
Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement- Demetria Tuck
Illustrator – Bryan Collier, I, too, am America
Author – Andrea Davis Pinkney, Hand in hand : ten black men who changed America
Margaret A. Edwards award:
Tamora Pierce – A song of the lioness series
William C. Morris award:
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction:
Steve Sheinkin, BOMB : the race to build and steal the world’s most dangerous weapon
Odyssey award:
The fault in our stars by John Green ; narrated by Kate Rudd (Brilliance)
Michael L. Printz award:
In darkness by Nick Lake
Pura Belpre award:
Illustration- Martin de Porres: the rose in the desert illustrated by David Diaz
Book for text- Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture award:
Andrea Davis Pikney
Mildred L. Batchelder award:
My family for the war by Anne C. Voorhoeve
Robert F. Sibert Medal:
Steve Sheinkin, BOMB : the race to build and steal the world’s most dangerous weapon
Andrew Carnegie Medal:
Anna, Emma and the condors
Laura Ingalls Wilder award:
Katherine Patterson
Theodor Seuss Geisel award:
Up tall and high written and illustrated by Ethan Long
Randolph Caldecott Medal:
This is not my hat by Jon Klassen
John Newberry Medal:
The one and only Ivan by Katherine Applegate illustrated by Patricia Casyelao