2016-2017 Children’s & Young Adult Book Awards
The start of the calendar year is always an exciting time for children’s and young adult literature, as the American Library Association (ALA) announces its Youth Media Awards. Below you will find not only links to the 2017 ALA award-winning and honor books that we blogged about, but links to the many books we blogged about over the course of 2016 that have won awards and honors in the field of children’s and young adult literature. We invite you to explore our previously written blog entries for these winners and honor books. In the coming weeks, we will select a few more titles from the list of ALA winners and post blog entries to support you as you teach with these titles.
ALA Youth Media Awards


2016 NCTE Charlotte Huck and Orbis Pictus Awards
Charlotte Huck Honor Book
Wild Robot
Written by Peter Brown
Published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2016
Charlotte Huck Recommended Book
The Seventh Wish
Written by Kate Messner
Published by Bloomsbury USA, 2016

Charlotte Huck Recommended Book
A Bandit’s Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket
Written by Deborah Hopkinson
Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2016


Orbis Pictus Recommended Book
CLA 2016 Notable Children’s Books in the English Language Arts


2016 ILA Children’s and Young Adults’ Book Awards
ILA Children’s and Young Adults’ Book Award for Primary Nonfiction
2016 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards
2017 Notable Books for a Global Society


NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children

Filed under: Announcements, Awards, Book Lists

About Grace Enriquez
Grace is an associate professor of language and literacy at Lesley University. A former English Language Arts teacher, reading specialist, and literacy consultant, she teaches and writes about children’s literature, critical literacies, and literacies and embodiment. Grace is co-author of The Reading Turn-Around and co-editor of Literacies, Learning, and the Body.
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