As mentioned last Sunday the 2016 ALA Youth Media Awards were announced last Monday. What an exciting day!
As I meet with classes to introduce the 2016 youth media awards and what each award celebrates, I hope students will broaden their reading interests.
The Newbery Award is awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American children's book published the previous year. This year is only the second time in the 94 years this award has been awarded that the winning book is a picture book (the first picture book awarded was in 1982 for the title, A Visit to William Blake's Inn by Nancy Willard). Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena is the 2016 Newbery Winner. It also is a Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor presented to the book's illustrator, Christian Robinson.
The 2016 Caldecott Award is awarded annually to the illustrator of the most distinguished American children's picture book. The Caldecott Award is celebrating 78 years for this award, named in honor of Randolph Caldecott, a nineteenth-century English illustrator. This year's winner is Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear illustrated by Sophie Blackall and written by Lindsay Mattick.
This CNN article written by Katia Hetter, "2016 Newbery, Caldecott awards honor best children's books" lists the ALA Youth Media Awards.
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