Monday, January 28, 2019

2019 American Library Association Youth Media Awards


Pictured above are just a few of the winners of various American Library Association Youth Media Awards for 2019, announced this morning.  Check out the link above for a list of all the winners.  Watch for many of these titles to be added to the Tarleton Libraries' collections!

Clockwise from upper left: 

  • Merci Suarez Changes Gears, winner of the John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature;
  • Hello Lighthouse, winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children;
  • Rescue & Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship, winner of the Schneider Family Book Award for young children (ages 0-10), for "embodying an artistic expression of the disability experience," and
  • The Fox on the Swing, winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for an outstanding children’s book originally published in a language other than English in a country other than the United States (it was originally published in Lithuanian as Laime Yra Lape).


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