2012 ALA Youth Media Award Winners (continued)

Following is the continuation of the American Library Association (ALA) Youth Media Awards bestowed on January 23, 2012, which recognized the top books, videos, and audiobooks for children and young adults published in 2011.

Go to the first page of the 2012 ALA Youth Media Awards (which includes the 2012 Newbery Medal winner and 2012 Newbery Honors Books), or read about what each ALA Youth Media Award recognizes.

The 2012 award winners and honor books (continued) are:

2012 Randolph Caldecott Medal winner
A Ball for Daisy, illustrated and written by Chris Raschka (Schwartz & Wade Books/ Random House Children’s Books)

2012 Caldecott Honor Books:
Blackout, illustrated and written by John Rocco (Disney/Hyperion Books)
Grandpa Green, illustrated and written by Lane Smith (Roaring Brook Press/Holtzbrinck)
Me … Jane, illustrated and written by Patrick McDonnell (Little, Brown /Hachette)

2012 Andrew Carnegie Medal winner
Paul R. Gagne and Melissa Reilly Ellard of Weston Woods Studios, Inc., producers of Children Make Terrible Pets, based on the book by Peter Brown.

2012 Mildred L. Batchelder Award winner
Soldier Bear, written by Bibi Dumon Tak, illustrated by Philip Hopman, translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers)

2012 Batchelder Honor Book
The Lily Pond, written by Annika Thor, and translated by Linda Schenck (Delacorte Press/Random House Children’s Books)

2012 Odyssey Award winner
Rotters, by Daniel Kraus, narrated by Kirby Heyborne (Listening Library/Random House Audio)

2012 Odyssey Honor audiobooks:
Ghetto Cowboy, by G. Neri, narrated by JD Jackson (Brilliance Audio)
Okay for Now, by Gary D. Schmidt, narrated by Lincoln Hoppe (Listening Library/Random House Audio)
The Scorpio Races, by Maggie Stiefvater, narrated by Steve West and Fiona Hardingham (Scholastic Audiobooks)
Young Fredle, by Cynthia Voigt, narrated by Wendy Carter (Listening Library/Random House Audio)

Pura Belpré (Illustrator) Award winner
Diego Rivera: His World and Ours, illustrated (and written) by Duncan Tonatiuh (Abrams Books for Young Readers)

Belpré Illustrator Honor Books:
The Cazuela that the Farm Maiden Stirred, illustrated by Rafael López, written by Samantha R. Vamos (Charlesbridge)
Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match /Marisol McDonald no combina, illustrated by Sara Palacios, written by Monica Brown (Children’s Book Press/Lee and Low Books)

Pura Belpré (Author) Award winner
Under the Mesquite, by Guadalupe Garcia McCall (Lee and Low Books)

Belpré Author Honor Books:
Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck, by Margarita Engle (Henry Holt)
Maximilian and the Mystery of the Guardian Angel: A Bilingual Lucha Libre Thriller, by Xavier Garza (Cinco Puntos Press)

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award winner
Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade, by Melissa Sweet (Houghton Mifflin Books for Children)

Sibert Honor Books:
Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene ‘Bull’ Connor, by Larry Dane Brimnerand (Calkins Creek/Boyds Mills Press)
Drawing from Memory, written and illustrated by Allen Sayand (Scholastic Press)
The Elephant Scientist, by Caitlin O’Connell and Donna M. Jackson, photographs by Caitlin O’Connell and Timothy Rodwell (Houghton Mifflin Books for Children)
Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem, written and illustrated by Rosalyn Schanzer (National Geographic Society)

2012 Stonewall Book Award - Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award winner
Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy, by Bil Wright (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
2012 Stonewall Honor Books:
a + e 4ever, by Ilike Merey (Lethe Press)
Money Boy, by Paul Yee (Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press)
Pink, by Lili Wilkinson (HarperTeen/HarperCollins)
with or without you, by Brian Farrey (Simon Pulse/Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)

2012 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award winner
Tales for Very Picky Eaters, by Josh Schneider (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

2012 Geisel Honor Books:
I Broke My Trunk, by Mo Willems (Hyperion Books for Children/Disney)
I Want My Hat Back, by Jon Klassen (Candlewick Press)
See Me Run, by Paul Meisel (Holiday House)

2012 William C. Morris Award winner
Where Things Come Back, by John Corey Whaley (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)

Finalists for 2012 William C. Morris award were:
Girl of Fire and Thorns, written by Rae Carson (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins)
Paper Covers Rock, by Jenny Hubbard (Delacorte Press/Random House Children’s Books)
Under the Mesquite, by Guadalupe Garcia McCall (Lee and Low Books)
Between Shades of Gray, by Ruta Sepetys (Philomel Books/Penguin Young Readers)

2012 YALSA Award for Excellence
The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery, by Steve Sheinkin (Flash Point/Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group)

Finalists for the 2012 YALSA Award were:
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science, by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition, by Karen Blumenthal (Flash Point/Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group)
Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way), by Sue Macy (National Geographic Children’s Books)
Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein, by Susan Goldman Rubin (Charlesbridge)

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