Book Awards
In case you missed it: Jerry Pinkney's 2016 Coretta Scott King/Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award speech and his 2016 Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal Acceptance speech: "Drawing My Dream." Sophie Blackall's Caldecott acceptance speech and Matt de la Peña's Newbery speech. Rita Williams-Garcia's Coretta Scott King Author Award acceptance speech and...
Whenever I think of Rita Williams-Garcia, it is not long before the memory rises of a teen mother asking Rita a question at a school visit coordinated by my library, Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore. The young women at the school had read Rita’s seminal novel Like Sisters on...
In 2012, I met two men whose talent and generosity would change my life: Trombone Shorty and Bryan Collier.Born and raised in New Orleans, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews found a broken trombone when he was four years old and taught himself how to play. By the seasoned age of six,...
I would like to give thanks to all the members of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards committee for their hard work in shining a light on Trombone Shorty, as well as on many other important books. A special thanks goes out to my agent, Marcia Wernick, and to the...
Good morning, family. I am overjoyed to once again stand before you. Honestly, I hoped for a Coretta Scott King Honor. I just wanted to be here at the table, as one of the many being honored.You would think that by now, I’d have it together. I would know: put...
Good morning, and congratulations to my fellow honorees. Let me begin by saying how special this morning is to me and my family. Over the years, I have attended many of the Coretta Scott King breakfasts, and these events always leave me feeling filled to the brim with admiration for...
The most prestigious honors in children’s literature, the Newbery and Caldecott medals, were awarded to Matt de la Peña for Last Stop on Market Street and Sophie Blackall for Finding Winnie on January 11, 2016, at the American Library Association’s midwinter meeting in Boston. Also announced at the gathering were...
Winner:Trombone Shortyby Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews; illus. by Bryan CollierPrimary Abrams 40 pp.4/15 978-1-4197-1465-8 $17.95In New Orleans parlance, “Where y’at?” means “hello.” As an opening greeting (repeated three times, creating a jazzy beat), it also signals the beginning of this conversational and personable
autobiography. Andrews, a.k.a. Trombone Shorty, concentrates on...
Winner:Gone Crazy in Alabamaby Rita Williams-GarciaIntermediate, Middle School Amistad/HarperCollins 291 pp.4/15 978-0-06-221587-1 $16.99Library ed. 978-0-06-221588-8 $17.89 ge-book ed. 978-0-06-221590-1 $9.99Williams-Garcia says goodbye to the Gaither family (One Crazy Summer, rev. 3/10; P. S. Be Eleven, rev. 5/13) in this involving and emotional concluding installment. It’s been a year since Delphine,...
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