ALA Youth Media Awards

Congratulations to Abrams Books and Candlewick Press, both with multiple honors!

Theodor Seuss Geisel Award
Bink and Gollie by Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee, illustrated by Tony Fucile, Candlewick Press, 978-0-7636-3266-3 

Caldecott Honor Medal
Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein, Candlewick Press, 978-0-7636-4168-9

Coretta Scott King John Steptoe Award for New Talent 
Zora and Me by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon, Candlewick Press, 978-0-7636-4300-3

 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults  
Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing Ann Angel, Abrams/Amulet, 9780810983496

John Newbery Medal Honor Award
Heart of a Samurai  by Margi Preus, Abrams/Amulet, 9780810989818

Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor Award
Me, Frida by Amy Novesky and illustrated by David Diaz, Abrams/Amulet, 9780810989696

Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor Award
Dear Primo written and illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh, Abrams/Amulet, 9780810938724