- Ashley S.
- Friday, February 10, 2023
Check out these 2023 ALA Youth Media Award winners!
At the beginning of the year, the American Library Association recognizes and honors books, audiobooks, and other materials for their contribution to both children and teens. Committees of librarians and other subject matter experts work together to choose materials that best reflect the innovation and creativity of the previous publishing year. These materials are then given some of the most prestigious awards in literature including the Newberry, Caldecott, Printz, and more. Below you'll find a description of each award:
- The Alex Award: The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18.
- Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature: This award promotes Asian/Pacific American culture and heritage and is award based on literary and artistic merit.
- Coretta Scott King 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 Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement: This award is named in memory of beloved children’s author Virginia Hamilton. The annual award is presented in even years to an African American author, illustrator or author/illustrator for a body of his or her published books for children and/or young adults, and who has made a significant and lasting literary contribution
- Children's Literature Legacy Award: This award is administered by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, the Children’s Literature Legacy 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 through books that demonstrate integrity and respect for all children’s lives and experiences.
- Excellence in Early Learning Digital Media Award: This award is given to a digital media producer that has created distinguished digital media for an early learning audience.
- John Newbery Medal: This award is given annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
- Margaret A. Edwards Award: This award honors an author, as well as a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.
- Michael L. Printz Award: This award is given to a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature.
- Mildred L. Batchelder Award: This award is given to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States.
- Odyssey Award: This award is given to the producer of the best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States.
- Pura Belprè Awards: The award is named after Pura Belpré, the first Latina librarian at the New York Public Library. 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.
- Randolph Caldecott Medal: This award was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
- Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal: This award is give 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.
- Schneider Family Book Award: This award honors an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.
- Stonewall Book Awards: These awards are given annually to English language works of exceptional merit for children or teens relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender experience.
- Sydney Taylor Book Award: This award is presented annually to outstanding books for children and teens that authentically portray the Jewish experience.
- Theodor Seuss Geisel Award: This award is given annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers published in English in the United States during the preceding year.
- William C. Morris Award: This award, first given in 2009, honors a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature.
- YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults: This award honors the best nonfiction book published for young adults (ages 12-18) during a Nov. 1 – Oct. 31 publishing year.
Be sure to check out the following slideshow of all of the 2023 award winning titles that Richland Library has available for you and your families! If you're interested in learning more about the awards as well as the winners be sure to check out the American Library Association website which can be found here.