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Winner Fox Has a Problem [My First I Can Read!] by Corey R. Tabor; illus. by the author Primary Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 32 pp. 8/23 9780063277915 $17.99 Paper ed. 9780063277922 $5.99 e-book ed. 9780063277946 $5.99 Fox and his friends are back in this newest installment in Tabor’s Geisel-winning (for Fox...
Winner An American Story by Kwame Alexander; illus. by Dare Coulter Primary, Intermediate Little, Brown 56 pp. 1/23 9780316473125 $18.99 Alexander and Coulter have created a powerful counternarrative in their efforts to answer the question, “How do you tell a story about slavery?” Starting before Africans were forcibly brought to...
Winner Nigeria Jones by Ibi Zoboi High School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 384 pp. 5/23 9780062888846 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780062888860 $12.99 Sixteen-year-old Nigeria is expected to lead the youth of the Movement (which is “like a small African West Philly village in the big, white state of Pennsylvania”) and model what...
Winner Big by Vashti Harrison; illus. by the author Primary Little, Brown 64 pp. 5/23 9780316353229 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780316566223 $12.99 As Harrison writes in her author’s note, “In childhood, big is good. Big is impressive, aspirational. But somewhere along the way, the world begins to tell us something different:...
Winner The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers; illus. by Shawn Harris Intermediate Knopf 272 pp. 5/23 9781524764203 $19.99 e-book ed. 9781524764227 $10.99 Canine narrator Johannes lives wild in a park and serves as the Eyes, appointed by the penned-up Bison to report what he sees. The...
Not all deserving books bring home ALA awards. The books that didn’t win. Not-dog Every Dog in the Neighborhood by Philip C. Stead; illus. by Matthew Cordell Don’t Worry, Murray by David Ezra Stein Locked out Farmhouse by Sophie Blackall Swept away A Day for...
Not all deserving books bring home ALA awards. Our annual Mind the Gap Awards pay tribute to our favorite books that didn’t win. Here’s how we reviewed our 2023 winners. Every Dog in the Neighborhood by Philip C. Stead; illus. by Matthew Cordell Primary Porter/Holiday 40 pp. g 6/22 ...
This year’s ALA Youth Media Award winners represent a range of experiences, expertise, interests, and topics. There are previous, beloved winners and there are newcomers to the stage — notably Doug Salati for the Caldecott Medal and Amina Luqman-Dawson for both the Newbery and Coretta Scott King Author awards. Three...
Future editor of Freewater. Photo courtesy of Alexandra Hightower. On a recent visit to her family home in Atlanta, Alex(andra) Hightower came across some papers from her tenth-grade English class. Looking at her essays and the notes in the margins, Alex was struck by how the work she did in...
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