Awards announced - Newbery, Printz, Caldecott and more

[Sommer Leigh]

Nathan posted a question a while back about whether you are more likely to read a book that won an award (post here: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2838) and there are a few awards I pay attention to every year and I make sure to check out.

I've never been let down by the winners. When you reach me by Rebecca Stead was my favorite discovery when it won the Newbery Medal.

Everyone has probably heard by now that they announced the winners for some of the big awards on Monday. You can find a full list of the awards and their winners at http://www.ala.org, but here are the four I pay close attention to every year.

Congrats to these authors! I'm really excited about Paolo Bacigalupi winning the Printz award for Ship Breaker. I'm actually in the middle of this book now. I've read his book The Windup Girl and I absolutely LOVED it. The Ship Breaker, so far, is living up to Bacigalupi's outstanding writing talent. Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King and Stolen by Lucy Christopher were already on my TBR pile.

Has anyone read any of these books? Do you plan to?


The Newbery Medal - 2011 Winner
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool

The Newbery Medal - 2011 Honors
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Rick Allen
Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm

Michael L. Printz Award - 2011 Winner
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

Michael L. Printz Award - 2011 Honors
Nothing by Janne Teller
Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King
Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick
Stolen by Lucy Christopher

Coretta Scott King Award - 2011 Winner
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

Coretta Scott King Award - 2011 Honors
Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers
Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty written by G. Neri, illustrated by Randy DuBurke

The Caldecott Medal - 2011 Winner
A Sick Day for Amos McGee illustrated by Erin E. Stead, written by Philip C. Stead

The Caldecott Medal - 2011 Honors
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet Slave illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Laban Carrick Hill
Interrupting Chicken written and illustrated by David Ezra Stein

[Robin]

Thanks for sharing. My daughter just learned about the Newberry and Caldecott Awards, so we may check out the winners.

What an amazing honor. Can you imagine having one of those shiny treasures on the cover of your book?

[Sommer Leigh]

Thanks for sharing. My daughter just learned about the Newberry and Caldecott Awards, so we may check out the winners.

What an amazing honor. Can you imagine having one of those shiny treasures on the cover of your book?

I admit I have daydreamed about the Printz award.

You'll have to tell me what your daughter thinks of them if she reads them!