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| This Year's Caldecott Winner
(PLEASE NOTE: ALL BOOKS CAN BE FOUND ON THE AMAZON WEBSITE WHERE YOU CAN INDEED, LOOK INSIDE SOME OF THEM!)
Jon Klassen has won this year's Caldecott Medal for "This is Not my Hat" published by Candlewick Press. This book, a sequel to his uproarious, "I Want My Hat Back" follows a little fish who decides he likes a hat.
Caldecott
Honors
"Creepy
Carrots” illustrated by Peter Brown, written by Aaron Reynolds and published by
Simon & Schuster
"Extra Yarn”
illustrated by Jon Klassen, written by Mac Barnett and published by Balzer +
Bray
"Green”
illustrated and written by by Laura
Vaccaro Seeger, published by Neal Porter Books
"One Cool
Friend” illustrated by David Small, written by Toni Buzzeo and published by
Dial Books for Young Readers
"Sleep Like
a Tiger” illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski, written by Mary Logue and published
by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
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| THE NEWBERY WINNER
Katherine
Applegate is the author of "The One and Only Ivan" this year's selection as winner of the Newbery Medal. The book is illustrated by Patricia Castelaoand and published by HarperCollins.
The story is told from the viewpoint of a gorilla, Ivan. It explores not only how he changes, but also looks at the way in which humans regard animals and how they in turn, regard us.
These books received Newbery
Honors
"Splendors
and Glooms," by Laura Amy Schlitz, published by Candlewick Press
"Bomb: The
Race to Build—and Steal—the Worlds Most Dangerous Weapon” by Steve Sheinkin,
published by Flash Point
"Three Times
Lucky” by Sheila Turnage, published by Dial Books for Young Readers
Other
Awards:
Katja
Torneman, producer of “Anna, Emma and the Condor” wins the 2013 Andrew Carnegie
Medal for excellence in children’s video.
 Tamora
Pierce wins the Edwards Award for Song of the Lioness serioes and The Protector
of the Small quartet
Katherine
Paterson is the winner of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, honoring an author
whose books have made a substantial and lasting contribution to children’s
literature
“Seraphina”
written by Rachel Hartman wins the William C. Morris aAward which honors a book
written for young adults by a previously unpublished author.
“The Fault
in Our Stars” won the Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production.
“Hand in
Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America” by Andrea Davis Pinkney and “I, Too,
Am America,” illustrated by Brayn Collier are the winners of the Coretta Scott
King Award.
“Bomb: The
Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon” won the Robert F.
Sibert Medal for the most distinguished informational book for children.
“In
Darkness” written by Nick Lake and published by Bloomsbury Books won the
Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature.
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