On Monday January 28, at 11 AM, the
2013 ALA Youth Media Awards will be announced. More than 1,300 onsite
audience members and an unlimited number of virtual participants will
join a webcast to hear the news first hand of
who will win top honors among children’s and young adult authors and
illustrators, as well as producers of children’s audio and video
materials. You can follow along in real-time by logging on to the
ALA Youth Media Awards Facebook page, or via Twitter
by following hashtag #ALAyma. For more information visit the ALA Youth Media Awards page. Among the 19 awards presented at Youth Media Awards program are the prestigious Caldecott Medal (75th
anniversary), which honors the illustrator of the year's most
distinguished American picture book for children; Coretta
Scott King Book Award for African American authors and illustrators of
outstanding books for children and young adults that communicate the
African American experience; John Newbery Medal, honoring the author of
the year's most outstanding contribution to
children's literature; Michael L. Printz Award for the best book
written for young adults. Pura Belpré Award, honoring Latino writers
and illustrators whose work best portrays, affirms and celebrates the
Latino cultural experience in a work of literature
for youth; and Theodor Seuss Geisel Award, for both the author(s) and
illustrator(s) of an outstanding book for beginning readers.
In addition to the ALA Youth Media Awards, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA) has also announced winners for Excellence in Nonfiction.
What were your favorite reads of 2012? I'd love to hear from you :-)
Some of my favorites included:
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- The Strength in What Remains
- The Paris Wife
- The Fault in Our Stars,
- Ready Player One
- Room
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