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2018 Children's Book Award Winners
John Newbery Medal
“Hello, Universe,” written by Erin Entrada Kelly, and published by Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Randolph Caldecott Medal
“Wolf in the Snow,” illustrated and written by Matthew Cordell, and published by Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan.
Laura Ingalls Wilder Award
Jacqueline Woodson - The author of more than two dozen books for children and young adults, Woodson was named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation in 2015 and is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Her award-winning works include “Brown Girl Dreaming,” which won the 2015 Coretta Scott King Author Award, 2015 Newbery and Sibert Honors, and the 2014 National Book Award; and “Show Way,” recipient of the 2006 Newbery Honor Award.
Mildred L. Batchelder Award
Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, for “The Murderer’s Ape,” written and illustrated by Jakob Wegelius, translated from the Swedish by Peter Graves.
Pura Belpre (Author) Award
"Lucky Broken Girl,” written by Ruth Behar and published by Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Odyssey Award
“The Hate U Give,” produced by HarperAudio, written by Angie Thomas, and narrated by Bahni Turpin
Robert F. Sibert Medal
"Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961," written by Larry Dane Brimner, and published by Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
“Hello, Universe,” written by Erin Entrada Kelly, and published by Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Randolph Caldecott Medal
“Wolf in the Snow,” illustrated and written by Matthew Cordell, and published by Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan.
Laura Ingalls Wilder Award
Jacqueline Woodson - The author of more than two dozen books for children and young adults, Woodson was named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation in 2015 and is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Her award-winning works include “Brown Girl Dreaming,” which won the 2015 Coretta Scott King Author Award, 2015 Newbery and Sibert Honors, and the 2014 National Book Award; and “Show Way,” recipient of the 2006 Newbery Honor Award.
Mildred L. Batchelder Award
Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, for “The Murderer’s Ape,” written and illustrated by Jakob Wegelius, translated from the Swedish by Peter Graves.
Pura Belpre (Author) Award
"Lucky Broken Girl,” written by Ruth Behar and published by Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Odyssey Award
“The Hate U Give,” produced by HarperAudio, written by Angie Thomas, and narrated by Bahni Turpin
Robert F. Sibert Medal
"Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961," written by Larry Dane Brimner, and published by Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
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Caldecott Medal Winners
Coretta Scott King Award Winners
2016 - author - Rita Williams-Garcia, author of “Gone Crazy in Alabama.”
2016 - illustrator - Bryan Collier, illustrator of “Trombone Shorty." 2015 - author - Jacqueline Woodson, author of brown girl dreaming. 2015 - illustrator - Christopher Myers, illustrator of Firebird. 2014 - author - Rita Williams-Garcia - P.S. Be Eleven 2014 - illustrator - Bryan Collier- Knock Knock: my dad's dream for me 2013 - author - Andrea Davis Pinkney - Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America 2013 - illustrator - Bryan Collier- I, Too, Am America |