We librarians tend to like lists.
The end of the calendar year features Best-of (and the sometimes even more entertaining Worst-of) lists for everything and anything you could imagine. For example, check out Time Magazine and their massive selection of lists…
When the New Year rolls around, list time is mostly over and awards time begins. Librarians like awards almost as much as they like lists. The early winter has the Oscars for movies, the Grammys for music and a bunch of other awards shows for celebrity gazing. But one awards presentation reigns supreme for us in the library.
The ALA Youth Media Awards!
Yes: It’s the time of year we see what books have won the most prestigious youth book awards in the nation. We got in to the library extra-early this morning with our eyes glued to our Twitter feed to find out which of our favorites would take home the Newbery, the Caldecott, the Printz, the Alex and more…so here are some of the big winners in the categories for Teen literature:
The Michael L. Printz Award and William C. Morris Award for Debut Fiction
(It’s a big deal that this book won both…!)
Printz Honor Books
Also winning: The Newbery Award (probably the most famous award of the bunch) went to Jack Gantos for Dead End in Norvelt. The Caldecott Award (for illustrations) was given to Chris Raschka for A Ball for Daisy.
We’ll showcase the Alex Awards in another post next week.
Did your favorite books make the list? If you were handing out awards for this year’s best books, which books would you give them to?
You can find these books at the Fairfield Public Library and the Fairfield Woods Branch. Happy reading!
