Live Blogging the YMA – Theodor Seuss Geisel Award

Beginning reader award:

HONOR BOOKS

A Pig, a Fox and Box by Jonathan Fenske

Supertruck by Stephen Savaga

Waiting by Kevin Henkes (NICE!)

 

WINNER

Don’t Throw It to Mo! by David A. Adler

Live Blogging the YMA – Laura Ingalls Wilder Award

Substantial and lasting contribution to literature:

Jerry Pinkney (WOW! Two!)

Live Blogging the YMA – Andrew Carnegie Medal

Video award:

 

WINNER

That Is NOT a Good Idea

Live Blogging the YMA – Sibert Medal

Informational Book for children:

HONOR BOOKS

Drowned City by Don Brown (YEAH!)

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler by Phillip Hoose

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom by Lynda Blackmon Lowery

Voice of Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford (HURRAH!)

 

WINNER

Funny Bones by Duncan Tonatiuh (AMAZING!)

Live Blogging the YMA – Mildred L. Batchelder Award

Books in translation award:

HONOR BOOKS

Adam and Thomas by Aharon Appelfeld

Grandma Lives in a Perfume Village by Fang Suzhen

Written and Drawn by Henrietta by Liniers

 

WINNER

The Wonderful Fluffy Little Squishy by Beatrice Alemagna

Live Blogging the YMA – May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award

Jacqueline Woodson!!!

Live Blogging the YMA – Pura Belpre Award

ILLUSTRATOR HONOR BOOKS

My Tata’s Remedies by Antonio Castro L.

Mango, Abuela and Me by Angela Dominguez (LOVELY!)

Funny Bones by Duncan Tonatiuh (HURRAY!)

 

ILLUSTRATOR WINNER

The Drum Dream Girl by Rafael Lopez (GORGEOUS!)

 

AUTHOR HONOR BOOKS

The Smoking Mirror by David Bowles

Mango, Abuela and Me by Meg Medina, illustrated by Angela Dominguez

 

AUTHOR WINNER

Enchanted Air by Margarita Engle (YEEEEAAAAH!)

Live Blogging the YMA – Odyssey Award

Best audiobook

HONOR BOOK

Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan (YEAH!)

 

WINNER

The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Live Blogging the YMA – Printz Award

HONOR BOOKS

Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez

The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick (YEAH!)

 

WINNER

Bone Gap by Laura Ruby (AMAZING!)