NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

Authors

  • Hanne Pearce

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20361/G28P69

Abstract

Greetings Everyone,

The news for this new year’s issue consists mainly of a list of a major children’s literature awards that have been announced, as well as a few upcoming conferences.


AWARDS

2017 ALSC (Association for Library Service to Children) Book and Media Award Winners

John Newberry Medal

  • The Girl Who Drank the Moon Written by Kelly Barnhill and published by Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, a division of Workman Publishing

Newberry Honour Books

  • Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan written and illustrated by Ashley Bryan and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
  • The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog written by Adam Gidwitz, illustrated by Hatem Aly and published by Dutton Children's Books, Penguin Young Readers Group, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
  • Wolf Hollow written by Lauren Wolk and published by Dutton Children's Books, Penguin Young Readers Group, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC

Randolph Caldecott Medal

  • Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat illustrated by Javaka Steptoe, written by Javaka Steptoe and published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.

Caldecot Honour Books

  • Du Iz Tak? illustrated and written by Carson Ellis, and published by Candlewick Press
  • Freedom in Congo Square illustrated by R. Gregory Christie, written by Carole Boston Weatherford and published by Little Bee Books, an imprint of Bonnier Publishing Group
  • Leave Me Alone! illustrated and written by Vera Brosgol and published by Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership
  • They All Saw a Cat illustrated and written by Brendan Wenzel and published by Chronicle Books LLC

Laura Ingalls Wilder Award

  • Nikki Grimes -- Her award-winning works include “Bronx Masquerade,” recipient of the Coretta Scott King Author Award in 2003, and “Words with Wings,” the recipient of a Coretta Scott King Author Honor in 2014. Grimes is also the recipient of the Virginia Hamilton Literary Award in 2016 and the NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children in 2006.

2018 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Award

  • Naomi Shihab Nye will deliver the 2018 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture.

Mildred L. Batchelder Award

  • Cry, Heart, But Never Break - Originally published in Danish in 2001 as “Græd blot hjerte,” the book was written by Glenn Ringtved, illustrated by Charolotte Pardi, translated by Robert Moulthrop and published by Enchanted Lion Books.

Batchelder Honour Books

  • As Time Went By published by NorthSouth Books, Inc., written and illustrated by José Sanabria and translated from the German by Audrey Hall
  • Over the Ocean published by Chronicle Books LLC, written and illustrated by Taro Gomi and translated from the Japanese by Taylor Norman

Pura Belpre (Author) Award

  • Juana & Lucas written by Juana Medina, is the Pura Belpré Author Award winner. The book is illustrated by Juana Medina and published by Candlewick Press

Pura Belpre (Illustrator) Award

  • Lowriders to the Center of the Earth illustrated by Raúl Gonzalez, written by Cathy Camper and published by Chronicle Books LLC

Andrew Carnegie Medal

  • Ryan Swenar Dreamscape Media, LLC, producer of “Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music”

Theodor Seuss Geisel Award

  • We Are Growing: A Mo Willems’ Elephant & Piggie Like Reading! Book written by Laurie Keller. The book is published by Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal

  • March: Book Three written by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin and illustrated by Nate Powell, published by Top Shelf Productions, an imprint of IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works LLC
     

Stonewall Book Awards - ALA Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table (GLBTRT)

Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award

  • If I Was Your Girl written by Meredith Russo and published by Flatiron Books
  • Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Hammer of Thor written by Rick Riordan and published by Disney Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group

Honor Books

  • Pride: Celebrating Diversity & Community written by Robin Stevenson and published by Orca Book Publishers
  • Unbecoming written by Jenny Downham and published by Scholastic Inc. by arrangement with David Fickling Books
  • When the Moon Was Ours written by Anna-Marie McLemore and published by Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin’s Press


2017 Children’s Literature Association Phoenix Awards

Phoenix Award  2017

  • Wish Me Luck by James Heneghan Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997

Phoenix Honor Books 2017

  • Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman HarperCollins, 1997
  • Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye Simon & Schuster, 1997

2017 Phoenix Picture Book Award

  • Tell Me a Season by Mary McKenna Siddals & Petra Mathers Clarion Books, 1997
  • One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Tale by Demi Scholastic, 1997

 

CONFERENCES

March

Serendipity 2017: From Beginning to End (Life, Death, and Everything In Between)
The Vancouver Children’s Literature Roundtable
Mar. 4, 2017 | 8am to 3:30 pm | UBC Ike Barber Library

June

Children’s Literature Association Conference

Hosted by the University of South Florida
June 22-24, 2017
Tampa, FL  Hilton Tampa Downtown Hotel
Conference Theme: Imagined Futures

July

International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) Congress 2017 – Toronto
July 29 - August 2, 2017  Keele Campus, York University 
The Congress theme is “Possible & Impossible Children: Intersections of Children’s Literature & Childhood Studies."
 

That is all for this issue. Best wishes!
Hanne Pearce, Communication Editor

 

Published

2017-01-29

How to Cite

Pearce, H. (2017). NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS. The Deakin Review of Children’s Literature, 6(3). https://doi.org/10.20361/G28P69

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 3 (2017)

Section

News and Announcements

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