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2008 Youth Media Awards
Each year the American Library Association (ALA) honors books, videos, audiobooks and other outstanding materials for children and teens. Recognized worldwide for the high quality they represent, ALA awards guide parents, educators, librarians and others in selecting the best materials for youth. Selected by judging committees composed of librarians and other children's experts, the awards encourage original and creative work.
On January 14, a standing-room-only crowd of enthusiastic librarians and publishers with gather at the Pennsylvania Convention Center to cheer their favorites and to be the first in the nation to know which books are destined to be lasting classics.
Youth Media Awards News Coverage:
Today Show 1/15/08
Loriene Roy and winners appear on the Today Show to discuss this year's selections
NPR 1/15/08
"All Things Considered"
Stories of Magic, Medieval Times Win Book Awards
GoogleNews - Ongoing
2008 Youth Media Award announcements:
American Library Association announces literary award winners
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- Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in children's video
Producer Kevin Lafferty wins 2008 Carnegie Medal for “Jump In!”
- CorettaScott King Book Award recognizing an African American author and illustrator of books for children and young adults that reflect the best in artistic and literary expression of the Black experience in a pluralistic society
Curtis, Bryan win 2008 Coretta Scott King Awards
- John Newbery Medal for the most distinguished contribution to children's literature
Schlitz, Selznick win Newbery, Caldecott Medals
- Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults
Orson Scott Card honored for lifetime contribution to young adult readers with Edwards Award
- May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award recognizing an author, critic, librarian, historian, or teacher of children's literature, who then presents a lecture at a winning host site
Walter Dean Myers to deliver 2009 Arbuthnot Honor Lecture
- Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults
Geraldine McCaughrean Wins 2008 Printz Award
- Mildred L. Batchelder Award for an outstanding children's book translated from a foreign language in a foreign country and subsequently published in English in the United States
2008 Batchelder Award honors VIZ Media for “Brave Story”
- Odyssey Award for excellence in audiobook production for youth
Jazz wins first-ever Odyssey Award
- PuraBelpré Award recognizing 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
Yuyi Morales, Margarita Engle win Pura Belpré Awards
- Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children
Schlitz, Selznick win Newbery, Caldecott Medals
- Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award for most distinguished informational book for children
Peter Sís wins 2008 Sibert Medal
- Schneider Family Book Award for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience
Schneider Family Book Award recipients named
- TheodorSeuss Geisel Award for the most distinguished book for beginning readers
Mo Willems wins Geisel Award for “There Is a Bird on Your Head!”
Additional information on the ALA Youth Media Awards can be found at www.ilovelibraries.org/youthmediaawards.
Adult book awards also announced during the conference include: Notable Books for Adults, the Black Caucus of the ALA Literary Awards and the Stonewall Awards. For more information on ALA literary awards, please visit: http://www.ala.org/bookmediaawards.
Other Award Announcements
BCALA announces the 2008 Literary Awards Winners
Avery, Doty win 2008 Stonewall Book awards
Fact Sheets
Midwinter Meeting Fact Sheet
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