It's official-- The Youth Media Awards have been annouced for 2012!
Enjoy!
Dead End in Norvelt
by Jack Gantos
Newbery Honor books:
Inside Out and Back Again
by Thanhha Lai
Breaking Stalin's Nose
by Eugene Yelchin
A Ball for Daisy
by Chris Raschka
Caldecott Honor books:
Blackout
by John Rocco
Grandpa Green
by Lane Smith
Me ... Jane
by Patrick McDonnell
Heart and Soul: The story of America and African Americans
by Kadir Nelson
Kadir Nelson also won a Coretta Scott King Illustrator honor for this book.
Coretta Scott King Author Honor books:
The Great Migration: Journey to the North
by Eloise Greenfield illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist
Never Forgotten
by Patricia C. McKissack illustrated by Ledo and Diane Dillon
Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom
by Shane W. Evans
Pura Belpré Author Award
Under the Mesquite
by Guradalupe Garcia McCall
(This one is a young adult book)
Pura Belpré Author Honor books:
Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwrek
by Margarita Engle
Maximilian and the Mystery of the Guardian Angel: A bilingual Lucha Libre Thriller
by Xavier Garza
Diego Rivera: His World and Ours
Written and illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh
Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor books
The Cazuela that the Farm Maiden Stirred
by Samantha R. Vamos and illustrated by Rafael Lopez
Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match / Marisol McDonald no combina
by Monica Brown illustrated by Sara Palacios
Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade
by Melissa Sweet
Sibert Honor books:
Black & White: The confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene 'Bull' Connor
by Larry Dane Brimnerand
Drawing from Memory
by Allen Aayland
The Elephant Scientist
by Caitlin O'Connell and Donna M. Jackson
Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of the Disaster in Salem
by Rosalyn Schanzerand
Tales for Very Picky Eaters
by Josh Schneider
(We reviewed this one here.)
Geisel Honor Books:
I Broke My Trunk
by Mo Millems
I Want My Hat Back
by Jon Klassen
See Me Run
by Paul Meisel
-JW-
