Book Awards
Winner:Lowriders to the Center of the Earth [Lowriders]by Cathy Camper; illus. by Raúl the ThirdIntermediate Chronicle 128 pp.7/16 978-1-4521-2343-1 $22.99To win a competition, animal friends Lupe Impala, Elirio Malaria, and Flapjack Octopus build a rocket-powered lowrider out of space materials collected as they drive through the galaxy. The unique ballpoint-pen...
Winner:Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage
Changed Musicby Margarita Engle;
illus. by Rafael LópezPrimary Houghton 40 pp.3/15 978-0-544-10229-3 $16.99A young girl dreams of becoming a drummer. Though she lives “on an island of music / in a city of drumbeats,” hers is an impossible dream: only boys play drums....
Winner:Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoirby Margarita EngleMiddle School Atheneum 195 pp.8/15 978-1-4814-3522-2 $17.99 ge-book ed. 978-1-4814-3524-6 $10.99Well known for her portrayals of historic Cubans in verse novels such as The Surrender Tree (rev. 7/08) and The Poet Slave of Cuba (rev. 7/06), Engle explores her own past...
Winner:I Lived on Butterfly Hillby Marjorie Agosín; illus. by Lee White; trans. by E. M. O'ConnorIntermediate Atheneum 455 pp.3/14 978-1-4169-5344-9 $16.99Eleven-year-old Chilean girl Celeste faces upheaval when a brutal dictator rises to power, her parents go into hiding, and she is shipped off to Maine. Threads of mysticism lend an...
Winner:Viva Fridaby Yuyi Morales; illus. by the author with photos by Tim O’MearaPrimary, Intermediate Porter/Roaring Brook 40 pp.9/14 978-1-59643-603-9 $17.99 gThere have been several books for young readers about Frida Kahlo, but none has come close to the emotional aesthetic Morales brings to her subject, as a Mexican artist herself...
Winner: Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina(Candlewick)A move to a new neighborhood in Queens means a new high school for almost-
sixteen-year-old Piddy (short for Piedad) Sanchez. Instead of a welcoming committee, she gets word that someone she doesn’t even know has it in for her. Yaqui...
Winner: Niño Wrestles the World by Yuyi Morales; illus. by the author(Porter/Roaring Brook)Pint-sized Niño, fearless luchador, Popsicle enthusiast, and reluctantly attentive big brother, dons his red mask (he’s already wearing his orange and yellow sneakers and blue-waistbanded tighty-whities), ready to take on all comers. He battles a series of formidable...
The most prestigious honors in children’s literature, the Newbery and Caldecott medals, were awarded to Kate DiCamillo and Brian Floca on January 27, 2014, at the American Library Association’s midwinter meeting in Philadelphia. Also announced at the gathering were the winners of the Coretta Scott King, Pura Belpré,...
Winner: Duncan Tonatiuh for Diego Rivera: His World and Ours (Abrams)Review in The Horn Book Guide, fall 2011The first half of the book provides background on Rivera's life and the inspiration behind his work. Readers are then asked to imagine how he might paint subjects from life today: "Maybe Diego...
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