GoodReads has announced the winners of their annual voting for the top book in a variety of categories. Here are the winners of the categories for books for children and teens:
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
YOUNG ADULT FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
MIDDLE GRADE AND CHILDREN’S
The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan
PICTURE BOOKS
The Thank You Book by Mo Willems
School Library Journal has announced their top picks for the year. It’s a list filled with books for preschoolers through teens, apps, movies and much more.
The list was livestreamed earlier this month and you can see the presentation on YouTube:
The New York Times has announced their list of the best in books for youth for 2016. The list covers picture books through teen books, fiction and nonfiction. The list is selected by the Children’s Books Editor of The New York Times Book Review.
I love seeing so many of my favorite books of the year there along with others that I must try yet.
The winner of the 2016 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature has been announced. First, let me say how very impressed I was with the entire list this year. It was filled with diverse authors and powerful wonderful stories and writing.
I love the winner and am thrilled to see a graphic novel win!
If you haven’t read this trilogy, you need to right away. It’s incredible.
The Irish Examiner has the shortlist for the 2016 Irish Book Awards. The awards span 14 categories. Here are the ones related to literature for youth:
SPECSAVERS CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE YEAR – JUNIOR
A Child of Books – Sam Winston and Oliver Jeffers
Goodnight Everyone – Chris Haughton
Historopedia – Fatti and John Burke
Pigín of Howth – Kathleen Watkins, illustrated by Margaret Anne Suggs
Rabbit and Bear: Rabbit’s Bad Habits – Julian Gough & Jim Field
Rover and the Big Fat Baby – Roddy Doyle, illustrated by Chris Judge
SPECSAVERS CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE YEAR – SENIOR
Knights of the Borrowed Dark – Dave Rudden
The Book of Shadows – E.R. Murray
The Making of Mollie – Anna Carey
Needlework – Deirdre Sullivan
Nothing Tastes As Good – Claire Hennessy
Flawed – Cecelia Ahern
The winners of the Governor General’s Awards have been announced. Two of the Canadian award’s winners are for young people’s literature:
YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE – TEXT
Calvin by Martine Leavitt
YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE – ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
Tokyo Digs a Garden by Jon-Erik Lappano and Kellen Hatanaka
YALSA has announced the Teens’ Top Ten for 2016. Nominees are currently being taken through December 31st for the 2017 Teens’ Top Ten list. Teens aged 12-18 can nominate their picks here.
Here are the 2016 Teens’ Top Ten:
Alive by Chandler Baker
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
The Novice: Summoner: Book One by Taran Matharu
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls by Lynn Weingarten
When by Victoria Laurie
There is also a video:
The finalists for the Governor General’s Literary Awards have been announced and the winners will be revealed on October 25th. Two of the categories are specifically for younger readers. Here are the finalists for those categories:
YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE – TEXT
Calvin by Marine Leavitt
The Emperor of Any Place by Tim Wynne-Jones
Once in a Town Called Moth by Trilby Kent
A Thousand Nights by EK Johnston
The Unquiet by Mikaela Everett
YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE – ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
The Branch by Mireille Messier and Pierre Pratt
A Hungry Lion or A Dwindling Assortment of Animals by Lucy Ruth Cummins
Ooko by Esme Shapiro
Tokyo Digs a Garden by Jon-Erik Lappano and Kellen Hatanaka
The White Cat and the Monk by Jo Ellen Bogart and Sydney Smith
The shortlists for the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for 2016 have been announced. The awards cover Australian literature in a variety of categories with two of them focused on younger readers. Here are the shortlists for those categories:
CHILDREN’S FICTION
Adelaide’s Secret World by Elise Hurst
The Greatest Gatsby: A Visual Book of Grammar by Tohby Riddle
Mr. Huff by Anna Walker
Perfect by Danny Parker and Freya Blackwood
Sister Heart by Sally Morgan
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Becoming Kirrali Lewis by Jane Harrison
Green Valentine by Lili Wilkinson
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
In Between Days by Vikki Wakefield
A Single Stone by Meg McKinlay
Waking Brain Cells 