Newbery, Caldecott and Printz Winners of 2013
Congrats to all the authors, illustrators, publishers, friends and family who helped in the creation of all these wonderful books! Which books have you and your kids read and which ones do you recommend? Please share!
p.s. Compare predictions here.
p.p.s. If you are upset — What? Wonder didn’t win anything?!! — that a book you love didn’t win, Nerdy Book Club has a great post on Top 10 Things You May Not Know about the Newbery Award by Monica Edinger. Read it if you are upset. It is guaranteed to make you feel better!
2013 Newbery Medal Winner
John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature.
The 2012 Newbery Medal winner is …
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine A. Applegate
2013 Newbery Honor Books
Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage
2013 Caldecott Medal Winner
Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children.
This Is Not My Hat illustrated and written by Jon Klassen
Review by The Book Chook:
For me, this charming children’s picture book is a stand-out because of the sheer fun and quality of the illustrations. Klassen uses muted colours in a limited palette to show us a story that takes place underwater. Each time I look at the calm serenity of the very big fish wearing a tiny blue hat I just have to grin, and kids most definitely will too.
Caldecott Honor Books
Creepy Carrots! by Aaro Reynolds, illustrated by Peter Brown
Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Jon Klassen
Green illustrated and written by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
One Cool Friend by Toni Buzzeo, illustrated by David Small
Sleep Like a Tiger by Mary Logue, illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski
2013 Printz Award
Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults.
2013 Printz Award Winner
In Darkness by Nick Lake
2012 Printz Award Runners Up
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Dodger by Terry Pratchet
The White Bicycle by Beverley Brenna
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award 2013
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for the most distinguished beginning reader book.
Up, Tall and High by Ethan Long
Geisel Honor Books
Let’s Go for a Drive! written and illustrated by Mo Willems
Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by Eric Litwin, created and illustrated by James Dean
Rabbit & Robot: The Sleepover written and illustrated by Cece Bell
Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award
Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award recognizing an African American author and illustrator of outstanding books for children and young adults.
Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America by Andrea Davis Pinkney and illustrated by Brian Pinkney
King Author Honor Book
Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by E. B. Lewis
No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book Award
I, Too, Am America by Langston Hughes, illustrated by Bryan Collier
King Illustrator Honor Book
H. O. R. S. E., illustrated and written by Christopher Myers
Ellen’s Broom by Kelly Starling Lyons, illustrated by Daniel Minter
I Have a Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King, Jr. , illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement
Demetria Tucker is the winner of the Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime achievement. The award, which pays tribute to the quality and magnitude of beloved children’s author Virginia Hamilton.
Demetria Tucker is the 2013 recipient. Tucker has served as youth services coordinator within the Roanoke (Va.) Public Library System and library media specialist at the Forest Park Elementary School, where she was selected 2007 Teacher of the Year. As family and youth services librarian for the Pearl Bailey Library, a branch of the Newport News (Va.) Public Library System, Tucker now coordinates a youth leadership program, a teen urban literature club and many other programs that support the youth of her community.
2013 Asian Pacific American Award for Literature Winners!
Thank you to Paper Tigers for this information! The Asian Pacific American Libraries Association has announced their 2013 literature award winners.
Best Asian Pacific American Picture Book
Good Fortune in a Wrapping Cloth by Joan Schoettler and illustrated by Jessica Lanan
Asian Pacific American Honor Picture Book
A Path of Stars by Anne Sibley O’Brien
Asian Pacific American Children’s Literature Winner
Chengli and the Silk Road Caravan by Hildi Kang
Asian Pacific American Children’s Literature Honor Book
Shark King by Kikuo Johnson
Asian Pacific American Young Adult Literature Winner
Tina’s Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary by Keshni Kashyap
Asian Pacific American Young Adult Literature Honor Book
Schneider Family Book Award
Schneider Family Book Award for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience:
Schneider Children’s book Award
Back to Front and Upside Down! written and illustrated by Claire Alexander
Schneider Middle school award (ages 9 – 13)
A Dog Called Homeless by Sarah Lean
Schneider teen (ages 14-18) award winner
Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am by Harry Mazer and Peter Lerangis
Mildred L. Batchelder Award
Mildred L. Batchelder Award for an outstanding children’s book translated from a foreign language and subsequently published in the United States:
My Family for the War is the 2013 Batchelder Award winner. Originally published in Germany in 2007 as “Liverpool Street,” the book was written by Anne C. Voorhoeve, and translated by Tammi Reichel.
Batchelder Honor Books
A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return written and illustrated by Zeina Abirached, translated by Edward Gauvin
Son of a Gun written and translated by Anne de Graaf
Pura Belpré (Illustrator) Award
Pura Belpré (Illustrator) Award honoring a Latino writer and illustrator whose children’s books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience:
Martín de Porres: The Rose in the Desert illustrated by David Diaz, written by Gary D. Schmidt
Belpré Illustrator Honor Books
No Belpré Illustrator Honor Books were selected this year.
Pura Belpré (Author) Award
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Belpré Author Honor Books
The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano by Sonia Manzano
2013 YALSA’s Alex Awards
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults honors the best nonfiction book published for young adults, ages 12 – 18, each year.
Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different by Karen Blumenthal
Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 by Phillip Hoose
Titanic: Voices from the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson
We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March by Cynthia Levinson
Odyssey Award for Best Audiobook
Odyssey Award for best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States.
The Fault in Our Stars produced by Brilliance Audio, written by John Green, narrated by Kate Rudd
Odyssey Honor Audiobooks
Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian produced by Listening Library, written by Eoin Colfer and narrated by Nathaniel Parker
Ghost Knight produced by Listening Library, written by Cornelia Funke and narrated by Elliot Hill
Monstrous Beauty produced by Macmillian Audio, written by Elizabeth Fama and narrated by Katherine Kellgren
2013 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award Winner
Katherine Paterson is the 2013 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award Winner! Laura Ingalls Wilder Award honors an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made, over a period of years, a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.
Paterson was born in China in 1932 to missionary parents and grew up in the American South, moving eighteen times before she was 18. After graduating from King College in Bristol, Tennessee, she herself became a missionary in Japan. She returned to the U.S. to attend the Union Theological Seminary in New York, where she met and married John Paterson, a Presbyterian minister. Her first book, “The Sign of the Chrysanthemum,” was published in 1973. Katherine Paterson currently lives in Barre, Vermont.
Silbert 2013
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award for most distinguished informational book for children.
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
Morris Award 2013
William C. Morris Award for a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens.
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
Morris Honor Books
Wonder Show by Hannah Barnaby
Love and Other Perishable Items by Laura Buzo
After the Snow by S. D. Crockett
The Miseducation of Cameron Post by emily m. danforth
Alex Awards 2013
Caring is Creepy by David Zimmerman
Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman
Juvenile in Justice by Richard Ross
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf
One Shot at Forever by Chris Ballard
Pure by Julianna Baggott
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
Stonewall 2013
Stonewall Book Award -Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award given annually to English-language children’s and young adult books of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience.
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Stonewall Honor Books
Drama written and illustrated by Raina Telgemeier
Gone, Gone, Gone by Hannah Moskowitz
October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard by Lesléa Newman
Sparks: The Epic, Completely True Blue, (Almost) Holy Quest of Debbie by S. J. Adams
Andrew Carnegie Medal
Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in children’s video.
Katja Torneman, producer of “Anna, Emma and the Condors,” is the Carnegie Medal winner.
Margaret A. Edwards Award
Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults
Tamora Pierce is the 2013 Edwards Award winner. Pierce was born in rural Western Pennsylvania in 1954. She knew from a young age she liked stories and writing, and in 1983, she published her first book, Song of the Lioness. She continues to write and even record her own audiobooks. She currently lives with her husband (spouse-creature) and a myriad of animals in Syracuse, New York.
May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award recognizing an author, critic, librarian, historian or teacher of children’s literature, who then presents a lecture at a winning host site.
Andrea Davis Pinkney will deliver the 2014 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture. Andrea Davis Pinkney is a New York Times best-selling writer of more than 20 books for children and young adults including picture books, novels and nonfiction. During the course of her career, Pinkney has launched many high-profile publishing and entertainment entities, including Hyperion Books for Children/Disney Publishing’s Jump at the Sun imprint, the first African American children’s book imprint at a major publishing company.
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Thanks for these Mia! So many great-sounding books to investigate. I reviewed This is Not My Hat and loved it, and will keep an eye open for many more here.
Hi Susan,
I’ll link to your post on This is Not My Hat. Thanks so much!
Hi Susan,
I searched your blog but could not find the post on This is Not My Hat. If you don’t mind leaving it for me as a comment, I’ll link to this post with it. Thanks so much!
Mia, sorry, only just saw both comments. I did review This is not my Hat but it won’t be published at The Book Chook until February 20. I’ll try to remember to let you know!
Hi Susan,
I’m subscribed to your blog so no need. I’ll link it once it posts. Thanks so much! Wow, you blog very far ahead! You are organized!!
Yes, but I don’t have young kids any more! You young mums who maintain a blog and are actively involved in your children’s lives are real heroes.
You are so nice to say that Susan! Believe me! We don’t feel that way!
I’m so glad you posted all of these in one place because I could not get on the ALA website this morning! They were overloaded!
Hi Mom and Kiddo,
I think the ALA site is crashing from all the traffic. I used their Facebook and found a press release to get the results. So excited to buy some new books to read though! Heard great things about The One and Only Ivan!
Oh, this just makes me want to go on a major reading binge.
Hi Jeanette,
I just bought a small stack of books too! It’s my reading list for the year!
I am so happy that “The One and Only Ivan” won the Newbery. It was definitely my all-time favorite middle grade novel of last year. It is sad, hilarious, and so hopeful–I wept and I laughed as I read it. Then I read it aloud to my daughter, who also loved it. And now her teacher is reading it aloud to their 4th/5th grade class (Montessori school).
I thought last year’s Newbery, “Dead End in Norvelt” was merely OK, not worthy in my humble opinion of a Newbery, so this year I feel vindicated.
I was sorry to see that “Z is for Moose” illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky did not garner any awards, but I absolutely love the “Sleep Like a Tiger” illustrations–they’re stunning.
I was also glad to see that Moonbird and Code Name Verity were honorees in their categories.
I love that you included the covers in your list. I’m a visual person so it really helps me. Even if I forget some of the titles, when I see them I’ll remember them.
Hi Michelle,
I’m the same! I need to see the title and a good cover sticks with me like Crow’s and also Wonder’s. Which books are you wanting to read now that the awards are out? I’m trying to read most of the Newberys.
I already reserved DRAMA from my library. It’s been on my TBR list for a while. Of the others I haven’t read, I’ll make my way through them as I can.
Since you’re visual, too, maybe you’d like my Pinterst boards. I have a new board of Favorite Picture Book Biographies that may especially interest you.
http://pinterest.com/mcusolito/
Hi Michelle,
Thanks for your Pinterest board link. I just followed you. Let me know what you think of Drama. I’d love to hear your opinion. Thanks!
Been hunkered down here on the East Coast after Hurricane Nemo. Finally relocated to a place with power and running water.
Anyway… I had plenty of time to read these last few days. I loved DRAMA. I don’t tend to read lots of graphic novels, (though I do read them) but I think Raina Telgemeir is especially good. Another one to try, if you’re new to graphic novels is PERSEPOLIS. A fantastic memoir about growing up in Iran during the cultural revolution. That’s the novel that got me reading graphic novels in the first place.
Hi Michelle,
Thanks so much for the book rec. I will get my hands on Persepolis! For kids? I am searching for more graphic novels for a 6th grade girl reluctant reader. She loved Smile and she’s reading Drama now. I’ll let her know about Persepolis if you think it’s not too old for her. Thanks so much!!!
I shared some of my thoughts on the winners here: http://sunlitpages.blogspot.com/2013/01/ala-youth-media-awards-my-unbiased-and.html
It was so fun to see so many great books win!
Thank you for sharing your link Amy! I love reading what everyone thinks about the books that were picked. I am excited to read a pile of them but I am shocked that Wonder by R. J. Palacio did not win even a Schneider Award which it should have had a lock on. I was hoping for a Newbery honor for that one. And Ed Young … either of his books I had hoped would win a Caldecott. Oh well. There is always another year with another books of theirs!
Thanks for this great resource! Looking forward to reading This Is Not My Hat. We liked I Want My Hat Back. I am interested is so many from this list! I am bookmarking it so I can come back to it all year!
Hi Ann,
I want to get a copy of This is Not My Hat too! I read it at a bookstore but only vaguely remember it.
Thanks for taking the time to put together this list. It was so nice that you have everything in one place, and I like that you included the book jackets!
Thanks Bethany,
I am a visual person so it helps me to keep track of the books to memorize their cover. I am hoping to get my hands on a pile of these. It will be my reading list all year. I’m so enjoying the Picture Book of the Day series that you are hosting. Thanks for coordinating it!
You are so wonderful to put these all in one post! Now we have our go-to spot for making our summer reading lists (always have to get some of the award books on there for the kids). So many great reads – wonderful list!!
Hi Jacquie,
Yes, MY summer reading too for me and the kids.
Thanks for sharing on the After School Link-Up! I am featuring this post as well this week on Parent Teach Play: http://www.parentteachplay.com/great-book-lists-for-kids Please feel free to stop by and grab a featured button. Off to pin. Thanks again!!
Thanks Genny,
I just added the button! Thanks for using my post on your Parent Teach Play!
I love how you pulled these all into one great post. I’ve pinned this for future reference. Thanks for linking it into the Kid Lit Blog Hop too!
Hi Renee,
In truth, I added the APALA awards to this list since they are not part of the ALA awards though I am not sure why so that is my way of including Asian American authors to this list of prestigious Children’s Book Awards.