The Winners of the 2018 American Library Association Youth Media Awards
Congratulations to all the winners of the 2018 American Library Association Youth Media Awards! Below find the complete list of all the award winners. Watch the full video of the press conference here.
Randolph Caldecott Medal
This medal is to be given to the artist who had created the most distinguished picture book of the year and named in honor of the nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph J. Caldecott.
Caldecott Honor Books
Big Cat, little cat illustrated and written by Elisha Cooper
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut illustrated by Gordon C. James, written by Derrick 
Barnes,
A Different Pond illustrated by Thi Bui, written by Bao Phi
Grand Canyon illustrated and written by Jason Chin
Caldecott Medal
Wolf in the Snow illustrated and written by Matthew Cordell
John Newbery Medal
This award is given to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
Newbery Honor Books
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes, illustrated by Gordon C. James
Newbery Medal
Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly
Schneider Family Book Award
The Schneider Family Book Awards honor an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.
Best Young Children’s Book: Silent Days, Silent Dreams by Allen Say
Best Middle Grade Book: Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess by Shari Green
Best Teen Book: You’re Welcome, Universe by Whitney Gardner
The Stonewall Book Award
The Stonewall Book Awards is sponsored by the American Library Association’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table.
Stonewall Honor Books
As the Crow Flies by Melanie Gillman
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzie Lee
Stonewall Book Award
Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime that Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater
The Coretta Scott King Book Awards
The Coretta Scott King Book Awards are given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values. The award commemorates the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and honors his wife, Mrs. Coretta Scott King, for her courage and determination to continue the work for peace and world brotherhood.
Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement: Eloise Greenfield (author of Nathaniel Talking, The Great Migration, Africa Dream, among many others)
Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award Author: David Barclay Moore, the author of The Stars Beneath Our Feet
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honors
Charly Palmer for Mama Africa How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope With Her Song
Gordon C. James for Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
James E. Ransome for Before She was Harriet
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award
Ekua Holmes for Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets
Coretta Scott King Author Honors
Derrrick Barnes for Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
Jason Reynolds for A Long Way Down
Angie Thomas for The Hate U Give
Coretta Scott King Author Award
Renée Watson for Piecing Me Together
Pura Belpré Award
The Pura Belpré Award, established in 1996, is presented annually to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.
Belpré Honor Books for Illustration
All Around Us by Xelena Gonzalez, illustrated by Adriana M. Garcia
Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos by John Parra, illustrated by Monica Brown
Belpré Award Book for Illustration
La Princesa and the Pea by Susan Middleton Elya, illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal
Belpré Honor Book for Text
The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora by Pablo Cartaya
The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez
Belpré Award Book for Text
Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth Behar
Theodore Seuss Geisel Award
The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award is a literary award by the American Library Association (ALA) that annually recognizes the “author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished book for beginning readers published in English in the United States during the preceding year.”
Geisel Honor Books
I See a Cat by Paul Meisel
King & Kayla and the Case of the Missing Dog 
Treats by Dori Hillestad Butler, illustrated by Nancy Meyer
My Kite is Stuck! And Other Stories by Salina Yoon
Noodleheads See the Future by Tedd Arnold, Martha Hamilton, and Mitch Weiss
Snail and Worm Again, written and illustrated by Tina Kugler
Geisel Award
Charlie & Mouse by Laurel Snyder, illustrated by Emily Hughes
Alex Awards
The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18.
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
The Clockwork Dynasty by Daniel H. Wilson
Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea by Melissa Fleming
Malagash by Joey Comeau
Roughneck by Jeff Lemire
She Ride Shotgun by Jordan Harper
Things We Have in Common by Tasha Kavanagh
An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard
The Margaret A. Edwards Award
The Margaret A. Edwards Award, established in 1988, honors an author, as well as a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature. The annual award is administered by YALSA and sponsored by School Library Journal magazine. It recognizes an author’s work in helping adolescents become aware of themselves and addressing questions about their role and importance in relationships, society, and in the world.
Margaret A. Edwards Award Winner: Angela Johnson (author of Looking for Red, The First Part Last, Sweet, Hereafter, Bird)
William C. Morris Award
The William C. Morris YA Debut Award, first awarded in 2009, honors a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature.
William C. Morris Honor Awards
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Devils Within by S.F. Henson
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali
Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman
Morris Award
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Excellence in Nonfiction
#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women by Charleyboy and Leatherdale
Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime that Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater
Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers, by Deborah Heiligman
The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found by Martin W. Sandler
Winner for Excellence in Nonfiction
Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers by Deborah Heiligman
Michael L. Printz Award
The Michael L. Printz Award annually honors the best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit, each year.
Printz Honor Books
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers, by Deborah Heileigman
Printz Award
We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
Odyssey Award
This annual award is given to the producer of the best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States.
Odyssey Honors
The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman, narrated by Michael Sheen
A Boy Called Christmas by Matt Heig, narrated by Stephen Fry
Long Way Down, written and narrated by Jason Reynolds
Trombone Shorty by Troy “Trombone Shorty”, narrated by Dion Graham
The Wizards of Once by Cressida Cowell, narrated by David Tennant
Odyssey Award
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, narrated by Bahni Turpin
May Hill Arbuthnot Honore Lecture Award
The May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture is an annual event featuring an author, critic, librarian, historian or teacher of children’s literature, of any country, who shall prepare a paper considered to be a significant contribution to the field of children’s literature.
Winner: Debbie Reese
Mildred L. Batchelder Award
Batchelder Honors
Malala: Activist for Girls’ Education by by Raphaële Frier and Aurélia Fronty
When a Wolf is Hungry by Christine Naumann-Villemin
You Can’t Be Too Careful! by Roger Mello, translated by Daniel Hahn
Batchelder Award
The Murderer’s Ape by Jakob Wegelius
Robert F. Sibert Medal
The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal is awarded annually to the author( s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in the United States in English during the preceding year.
Sibert Honor Books
Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix by by Jacqueline Briggs Martin and June Jo Lee
Grand Canyon written and illustrated by Jason Chin
Not So Different: What You Really Want to Ask About Having a Disability by Shane Burcaw and Matt Carr
Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem by Patricia Newman
Sibert Medal
Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 by Larry Dane Brimmer
Laura Ingalls Wilder Award
The Wilder Award honors an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made, over a period of years, a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.
Winner: Jacqueline Woodson (author of After Tupac and D Foster, brown girl dreaming, Locomotion, and many more)
