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ALA Awards 2025: Horn Book Reviews of the Winners
The most prestigious honors in children’s literature, the Newbery and Caldecott medals, were awarded to Erin Entrada Kelly for The First State of Being and Rebecca Lee Kunz for Chooch Helped on January 27, 2025, at the American Library Association’s LibLearnX conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Also announced at the gathering...
Additional ALA Awards 2025
Alex Award [for the ten best adult books that appeal to teen audiences] Beautiful People: My Thirteen Truths About Disability by Melissa Blake (Hachette Go) Daughters of Shandong by Eve J. Chung (Berkley) Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom) The Witch of Colchis by Rosie Hewlett (Sourcebooks...
Reviews of the 2025 Printz Award Winners
Winner Brownstone by Samuel Teer; illus. by Mar Julia; color by Ashanti Fortson Middle School, High School Versify/HarperCollins 320 pp. 6/24 9780358394754 $26.99 Paper ed. 9780358394747 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780358393764 $12.99 In this empathetic coming-of-age graphic novel, nearly-fifteen-year-old Almudena reluctantly spends the summer of 1995 with Xavier, her Guatemalan father...
Reviews of the 2025 Pura Belpré YA Award Winners
Winner Shut Up, This Is Serious by Carolina Ixta High School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 368 pp. 1/24 9780063287860 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780063287884 $10.99 It’s senior year, and while Belén’s classmates are focused on college applications, she’s flunking school and struggling to cope with a shattered home life. Since her pa walked...
Reviews of the 2025 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Winners
Winner The Dream Catcher by Marcelo Verdad; illus. by the author Primary Little, Brown 40 pp. 5/24 9780316330664 $18.99 Spanish ed. 9780316566513 $8.99 Miguel and his abuelito wake early to work; the grandfather sells cold coconuts from a small, wheeled cart, and the boy sells dream catchers he makes, a...
Reviews of the 2025 Pura Belpré Author Award Winners
Winner Lola by Karla Arenas Valenti; illus. by Islenia Mil Intermediate Knopf 256 pp. 9/24 9780593177006 $17.99 Library ed. 9780593177013 $20.99 e-book ed. 9780593177020 $10.99 Lola, ten, lives in Mexico City in a house built around the Tree. The Tree is full of life, and spirit-like beings called chaneques protect...
Reviews of the 2025 Sibert Award Winners
Winner Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall by Lynn Brunelle; illus. by Jason Chin Primary, Intermediate Porter/Holiday 48 pp. 6/24 9780823452286 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780823459254 $11.99 As a ninety-year-old blue whale dies, one story ends and another begins. Her body provides food for other creatures before...
Reviews of the 2025 Geisel Award Winners
Winner Vacation: Three-and-a-Half Stories [Bat, Cat & Rat] by Ame Dyckman; illus. by Mark Teague Primary Beach Lane/Simon 48 pp. 5/24 9781665930444 $17.99 e-book ed. 9781665930451 $10.99 REVIEW TO COME Honor Books Towed by Toad by Jashar Awan; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary ...
Reviews of the 2025 CSK Illustrator Award Winners
Winner My Daddy Is a Cowboy by Stephanie Seales; illus. by C. G. Esperanza Primary Abrams 48 pp. 6/24 9781419760815 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781647006280 $17.09 A Panamanian American girl and her daddy get up before dawn to ride horses through their town in this atmospheric picture book that celebrates a...
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