Below find a selection of this year’s ALA Youth Media Award winners which represent the year’s best works for children and teens. The full list of this year’s winners, as well as video of the award ceremony, can be found here.

John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature:

• New Kid written and illustrated by Jerry Craft.

Newbery Honor Books:

• The Undefeated written by Kwame Alexander and, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
• Scary Stories for Young Foxes written by Christian McKay Heidicker and illustrated by Junyi Wu
• Other Words for Home written by Jasmine Warga
• Genesis Begins Again written by Alicia D. William

 

 

Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children:

• The Undefeated illustrated by Kadir Nelson and written by Kwame Alexander

Caldecott Honor Books:

• Bear Came Along illustrated by LeUyen Pham and written by Richard T. Morris
• Double Bass Blues illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez and written by Andrea J. Loney
• Going Down Home with Daddy illustrated by Daniel Minter and written by Kelly Starling Lyons

Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award recognizing an African-American author of outstanding books for children and young adults:

• New Kid written and illustrated by Jerry Craft

Coretta Scott King (Author) Honor Books:

• The Stars and the Blackness Between Them written by Junauda Petrus
• Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky written by Kwame Mbalia
• Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks written by Jason Reynolds

Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book Award recognizing an African-American illustrator of outstanding books for children and young adults:

• The Undefeated illustrated by Kadir Nelson and written by Kwame Alexander

Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Honor Books:

• The Bell Rang illustrated and written by James E. Ransome
• Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace illustrated and written by Ashley Bryan
• Sulwe illustrated by Vashti Harrison and written by Lupita Nyong’o

 

Pura Belpré (Illustrator) Book Award honoring a Latino illustrator whose children's books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience:

• Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln illustrated by Rafael López and written by Margarita Engle

Pura Belpré (Illustrator) Honor Books:

• Across the Bay illustrated and written by Carlos Aponte
• My Papi Has a Motorcycle illustrated by Zeke Peña and written by Isabel Quintero
• ¡Vamos! Let’s Go to the Market illustrated and written by Raúl Gonzalez

Pura Belpré (Author) Book Award honoring a Latino writer whose children's books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience:

• Sal and Gabi Break the Universe written by Carlos Hernandez

Pura Belpré (Author) Honor Books:

• Lety Out Loud written by Angela Cervantes
• The Other Half of Happy written by Rebecca Balcárcel
• Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré written by Anika Aldamuy Denise and illustrated by Paola Escobar
• Soldier for Equality: José de la Luz Sáenz and the Great War written and illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh

 

Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for the most distinguished beginning reader book:

• Stop! Bot! written and illustrated by James Yang

Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Books:

• Chick and Brain: Smell My Foot written and illustrated by Cece Bell
• Flubby Is Not a Good Pet written and illustrated by J. E. Morris
• The Book Hog written and illustrated by Greg Pizzoli

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults which recognizes the year’s best nonfiction writing for teens:

• Free Lunch written by Rex Ogle

Other Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults finalists:

• The Great Nijinsky: God of Dance, written and illustrated by Lynn Curlee
• A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust written by Albert Marrin
• A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II written by Elizabeth Wein
• Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of ‘The Children's Ship' written by Deborah Heiligman

 

Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults:

• Dig written by A.S. King

Printz Honor Books:

• The Beast Player written by Nahoko Uehashi
• Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me written by Mariko Tamaki and illustrated by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell
• Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir written by Nikki Grimes
• Where the World Ends written by Geraldine McCaughrean