Theodor Seuss Geisel Award

winner:
Bink and Gollie by Kate DiCamillo and Allison McGhee, illustrated by Tony Fucile

honors:
Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same! by Grace Lin
We Are in a Book by Mo Willems

Andrew Carnegie Medal

winner:
producers Paul R. Gagne and Melissa Reilly Ellard of Weston Woods for The Curious Garden based on the book of the same name, written and illustrated by Peter Brown, and is narrated by Katherine Kellgren, with music by David Mansfield

Laura Ingalls Wilder Award

Tomie DePaola

Robert F. Sibert Medal

winner:
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Bird written by Sy Montgomery with photographs by Nic Bishop

honors:
Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, illustrated by Brian Floca
Lafayette and the American Revolution by Russell Freedman

Mildred L. Batchelder Award

winner:
Delacorte Books for Young Readers for A Time of Miracles by Anne-Laure Bondoux, translated by Y. Maudet

honors:
namelos for Departure Time by Truus Matti, translated by Nancy Forest-Flier
Atheneum for Nothing by Janne Teller, translated by Martin Aitken

May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture

The lecture will be delivered by...
Peter Sis

Pure Belpre Award for Text

winner:
The Dreamer by Pam Munoz Ryan

honors:
Ole! Flamenco! by George Ancona
The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba by Margarita Engle
90 Miles to Havana by Enrique Flores-Galbis

Pura Belpre Award for Illustration

winner:
Grandma's Gift illustrated and written by Eric Velasquez

honors:
Fiesta Babies illustrated by Amy Cordoza and written by Carmen Tafolla
Me, Frida illustrated by David Diaz and written by Amy Novesky
Dear Primo: A Letter to My Cousin illustrated and written by Duncan Tonatiuh

Michael L. Printz Award

winner:
Ship Breaker Paolo Bacigalupi

honors:
Stolen by Lucy Christopher
Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King
Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick
Nothing by Janne Teller, translated by Martin Aitken

YALSA Excellence in Non-Fiction for Young Adults

winner:
Janis Joplin; Rise Up Singing by Ann Angel

William C. Morris Award

The winner is...
The Freak Observer by Blythe Woolston

Margaret A. Edwards Award

The winner of the Edwards Award is...

Sir Terry Pratchett (hooray!)

Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production

winner:
Listening Library, an imprint of Random House Audio Publishing for The True Meaning of Smekday written by Adam Rex and narrated by Bahni Turpin

 

honors:

• Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group for Alchemy and Meggy Swann written by Karen Cushman, narrated by Katherine Kellgren
• Candlewick on Brilliance Audio, an imprint of Brilliance Audio for The Knife of Never Letting Go written by Patrick Ness, narrated by Nick Podehl
• Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group for Revolution written by Jennifer Donnelly, narrated by Emily Janice Card and Emma Bering
• Brilliance Audio for Will Grayson, Will Grayson written by John Green and David Levithan, narrated by MacLeod Andrews and Nick Podehl

Coretta Scott King Author Award

winner:
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams Garcia

honors:
Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers
Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty by G. Neri

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Awards

winner:
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave illustrated by Bryan Collier (yay!) and written by Laban Carrick Hill

honor:
Jimi Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix illustrated by Javaka Steptoe and written by Gary Golio

Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award

The Committee chose two (actually, three) winners this year:

authors Victoria Bond and TR Simon for Zora and Me

illustrator Sonya Lynn Sadler for Seeds of Change: Wangari's Gift to the World by Jen Cullerton Johnson

Coretta Scott King Virginia Hamilton Practicioner Award for Lifetime Achievement

The winner is...

Dr. Henrietta Mays Smith

Stonewall Children's and Young Adult Literature Award

winner:

Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher


honor:
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Greene and David Levithan
Love Drugged by James Klise
Freaks and Revelations by Davida Willis Hurwin
The Boy in the Dress by David Walliams

Schnieder Family Book Awards

Best Children's Book:
The Pirate of Kindergarten by George Ella Lyon and illustrated by Lynne Avril

Best Middle School Book:
After Ever After by by Jordan Sonnenblick

Best Teen Book:
Five Flavors of Dumb by Antony John

Alex Awards

The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To by DC Pierson
Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard by Liz Murray
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni
Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
The Particular Sadess of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
The Radleys by Matt Haig
The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell
Room: A Novel by Emma Donoghue
The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant