Find the full list of Youth Media Award winners below. While the Newbery and Caldecott regularly grab headlines, they weren't the only prizes handed out Monday.
The Undefeated is among the first books published by his Versify imprint, launched last year at publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Monday's win marks the latest in a raft of honors for Alexander, who also has a Newbery medal to his name after his novel The Crossover won five years ago. New Kid won for Craft's work as an author, and The Undefeated earned the prize for Nelson's contributions as an illustrator. Meanwhile, The Undefeated, an ode to great black Americans illustrated by Kadir Nelson and written by Kwame Alexander, won the Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished picture book for children.Īt Monday's ceremony, both books also claimed Coretta Scott King Awards, which celebrate children's books produced by African Americans. Jerry Craft won this year's Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature for New Kid, a book focused on the struggles of a seventh grade student of color who has been sent to a prestigious private school with little diversity. Enter: the annual Youth Media Awards, a slew of children's book prizes announced Monday, including the John Newbery and Randolph Caldecott medals. So naturally, when a whole bunch of them get together for the American Library Association's annual midwinter conference, you can expect a host of recommendations to come of it. Librarians, after all, are always a font of good book suggestions. It is a universally acknowledged truth that a curious reader in want of a good book needs only direct their footsteps (and questions) to the nearest librarian.
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