ALA Youth Media Awards

Each year, we look forward to January when the American Library Association’s (ALA) Youth Media Awards are announced. This year, the announcement came last Monday, January 27, 2014. We are pleased to be able to share with you links to the 2014 ALA award winning and honor books that we blogged about over the course of 2013. In the coming weeks, we will select a few more titles from the list of winners and create blog entries to support you as you teach with these titles.

American Library Association Youth Media Awards Announcement


Randolph Caldecott Medal and Sibert Honor Award

Locomotive
Written and illustrated by Brian Floca
Published by Atheneum in 2013
http://classroombookshelf.blogspot.com/2013/09/locomotive.html

Caldecott Honor Award

Flora and the Flamingo
By Molly Idle
Published by Chronicle Books in 2013
http://classroombookshelf.blogspot.com/2013/12/flora-and-flamingo.html

John Newbery Medal Honor Award

The Year of Billy Miller
Written by Kevin Henkes
Published by Greenwillow Books, Harper Collins in 2013
http://classroombookshelf.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-year-of-billy-miller.html

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award

Parrots Over Puerto Rico
Written by Susan Roth and Cindy Trumbore, Illustrated by Susan Roth
Published by Lee & Low Books, 2013
http://classroombookshelf.blogspot.com/2013/12/parrots-over-puerto-rico.html

Sibert Honor

Look Up! Bird Watching in Your Back Yard
Written and Illustrated by Annette LeBlanc Cate
Published by Candlewick Press in 2013
http://classroombookshelf.blogspot.com/2013/04/look-up-bird-watching-in-your-own.html

Schneider Family Award & Sibert Honor Award

A Splash of Red:  The Life and Art of Horace Pippin
by Jen Bryant, illustrated by Melissa Sweet
Published by Knopf in 2013
http://classroombookshelf.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-splash-of-red-life-and-art-of-horace.html

Additionally, we would like to recognize the National Council of Teachers of English Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children. This year’s award was granted to A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin. In addition to blogging about this title, we have also blogged about four of the honor books.

NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction. 

A Splash of Red:  The Life and Art of Horace Pippin
by Jen Bryant, illustrated by Melissa Sweet (Alfred A. Knopf)

Locomotive
by Brian Floca (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)

Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike of 1909
by Michelle Markel, illustrated by Melissa Sweet (Balzer + Bray)
http://classroombookshelf.blogspot.com/2014/01/brave-girl-clara-and-shirtwaist-makers.html

Parrots Over Puerto Rico
by Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore (Lee & Low Books Inc.)

 Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America’s First Black Paratroopers
by Tanya Lee Stone (Candlewick Press)
http://classroombookshelf.blogspot.com/2013/04/courage-has-no-color.html

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