The winners of the 2019 Governor General’s Literary Awards have been announced. The Canadian awards are given for both English-language and French-language books and include awards for both children’s and adult books. Here are the two books that won in the children’s categories:
YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE – TEXT
Stand on the Sky by Erin Bow
YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE – ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
Small in the City by Sydney Smith
Publisher’s Weekly has released their lists of the best books for children and teens for 2019. They are broken into three categories. Here are the picture books:
Another by Christian Robinson
Birdsong by Julie Flett
Crab Cake: Turning the Tide Together by Andrea Tsurumi
Daniel’s Good Day by Micha Archer
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard, illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal
The Important Thing about Margaret Wise Brown by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Sarah Jacoby
Migration: Incredible Animal Journeys by Mike Unwin, illustrated by Jenni Desmond
My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero, illustrated by Zeke Pena
A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation by Barry Wittenstein, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
Pokko and the Drum by Matthew Forsythe
River by Elisha Cooper
Roar Like a Dandelion by Ruth Krauss, illustrated by Sergio Ruzzier
Saturday by Oge Mora
Small in the City by Sydney Smith
A Stone Sat Still by Brendan Wenzel
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Vroom! by Barbara McClintock
Who Wet My Pants? by Bob Shea, illustrated by Zachariah Ohora
The shortlists for the 2019 An Post Irish Book Awards have been announced. There are three categories specifically for books for youth. Here are the shortlists in those categories:
CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE YEAR (JUNIOR)
123 Ireland! by Aoife Dooley
Boot: Small Robot, Big Adventure by Shane Hegarty, illustrated by Ben Mantle
Don’t Worry Little Crab by Chris Haughton
The President’s Surprise by Peter Donnelly
Take Five by Niall Breslin, illustrated by Sheena Dempsey
Tiny and Teeny by Chris Judge
CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE YEAR SENIOR
Family Fun Unplugged by Peter Cosgrove
Gordon’s Game by Gordon D’Arcy and Paul Howard
Lily at Lissadell by Judi Curtin
The Lost Tide Warriors by Catherine Doyle
Shooting for the Stars: My Journey to Become Ireland’s First Astronaut by Norah Patten, illustrated by Jennifer Farley
A Strange Kind of Brave by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
TEEN/YOUNG ADULT BOOK OF THE YEAR
All the Bad Apples by Moira Fowley-Doyle
All the Invisible Things by Orlagh Collins
The M Word by Brian Conaghan
Other Words for Smoke by Sarah Maria Griffin
Perfectly Preventable Deaths by Deirdre Sullivan
Toffee by Sarah Crossan
YALSA has announced the winners of the 2019 Teen’s Top Ten List. Here they are:
#MurderTrending by Gretchen McNeil
American Panda by Gloria Chao
Batman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson and Emily Carroll
Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman
Wildcard by Marie Lu
The Sunburst Award is given “for excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.” They just announced this year’s winners in both their adult and young adult categories. Here is the winner as well as the books that were in the longlist for the young adult category:
WINNER
Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman
LONGLIST
Antilia: Sword and Song by Kate Story
Black Chuck by Regan McDonell
Children of Daedala by Caighlan Smith
Feeder by Patrick Weekes
North to Benjamin by Alan Cumyn
Not Even Bones by Rebecca Schaeffer
The Ruinous Sweep by Tim Wynne-Jones
Ruthless Magic by Megan Crewe
Spellslinger by Sebastien de Castell
Super! by Jennifer Chen
A World Below by Wesley King
Worldshaper by Edward Willett
Yesterday, the finalists for the 2019 National Book Award in Young People’s Literature were announced. The longlist was narrowed down to five finalists:
1919: The Year That Changed America by Martin W. Sandler
Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds
Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby
The winners of the 2019 Harvey Awards were announced at New York Comic Con this weekend. Several of the major awards went to books for teens as well as books with LGBTQIA+ subject matter. Here are the winners:
BOOK OF THE YEAR
Hey Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
DIGITAL BOOK OF THE YEAR
Check, Please by Ngozi Ukazu
BEST CHILDREN’S OR YOUNG ADULT BOOK
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell
BEST MANGA
My Hero Academia by Kohei Horikoshi
The Indies Introduce are selected by two panels of booksellers who choose 10 adult books and 10 children’s books as the best debuts of the season. Here are the books for children and teens selected for Winter/Spring 2020:
MIDDLE GRADE
Efren Divided by Ernesto Cisneros
From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks
Into the Tall, Tall Grass by Loriel Ryon
Stand Up, Yumi Chung! by Jessica Kim
The Unadoptables by Hana Tooke
YOUNG ADULT
Layoverland by Gabby Noone
Private Lessons by Cynthia Salaysay
Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko
The Silence of Bones by June Hur
Stay Gold by Tobly McSmith
The National Book Foundation has announced their longlist for the 2019 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Five finalists will be announced on October 8th with the winner announced on November 20th. Here are the books on the list:
1919: The Year that Changed America by Martin W. Sandler
Kiss Number 8 by Colleen AF Venable, illustrated by Ellen T. Crenshaw
Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds
Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve
Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
A Place to Belong by Cynthia Kadohata
Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson
Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
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