Bayport-Blue Point Public Library Children's Room: ALA Youth Media Award Winners

Today, Monday, January 11th, the American Library Association announced 2016's Youth Media Award Winners. Check them all out below!

The Youth Media Awards consist of the top books, video and audio books for children and young adults.

John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature:

Last Stop on Market Street
by Matt de la Pena

Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children:

Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear
illustrated by Sophie Blackall and written by Lindsay Mattick

Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award, recognizing an African American author of outstanding books for children and young adults:

Gone Crazy in Alabama
by Rita Williams-Garcia

Coretta Scott Kind (Illustrator) Book Award, recognizing an African American illustrator of outstanding books for children and young adults:

Trombone Shorty
illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Troy Andrews and Bill Taylor

Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults:

Bone Gap
by Laura Ruby

Schneider Family Book Award for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience:

(Ages 0-10)
Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
by Laurie Ann Thompson

(Ages 11-13)
Fish in a Tree
by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

The War That Saved My Life
by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

(Ages 13-18)
The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
by Teresa Toten

Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in children's video:

Weston Woods Studios, Inc., producer of "That Is NOT a Good Idea!"

Laura Ingalls Wilder 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.

Jerry Pinkney

Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults:

David Levithan

Mildred L. Batchelder Award for an outstanding children's book translated from a foreign language and subsequently published in the United States:

The Wonderful Fluffy Little Squishy
by Beatrice Alemagna, translated by Claudia Zoe Bedrick

Odyssey Award for best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults:

The War that Saved My Life
by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, narrated by Jayne Entwistle

Pura Belpre (Illustrator) Award honoring a Latino illustrator whose children's books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience:

Drum Dream Girl
illustrated by Rafael Lopez, written by Margarita Engle

Pura Belpre (Author) Award honoring a Latino writer whose children's books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience:

Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir
by Margarita Engle

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award for the most distinguished information book for children:

Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras
written and illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh

Stonewall Book Award - Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature Award given annually to English-language children's and young adult books of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience:

George

by Alex Gino