Top books, video, and audiobooks for children and young adults revealed at ALA Midwinter Virtual January 25, 2021
On January 25, the American Library Association (ALA) announced the top books, digital media, video, and audiobooks for children and young adults including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery, and Printz awards at its Midwinter Meeting & Exhibits taking place virtually from Chicago.
A list of all the 2021 award winners follows:
John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature:
When You Trap a Tiger, written by Tae Keller, is the 2021 Newbery Medal winner. The book is published by Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House.
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The American Library Association is currently holding its annual midwinter meeting and exhibits conference, and part of the event is its Youth Media Awards which houses the Alex Awards, a slate of prizes that are handed out “to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18,” from the prior year.
The ALA just announced this year’s Alex Award winners, and it includes a number of science fiction and fantasy titles.
Here’s the list of this year’s winners:
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse, published by Saga Press/Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
An Artist Whose Comics Tell Us What Itâs Like to Be Depressed
From “Solutions and Other Problems.”
By Hillary Chute
Jan. 22, 2021
I came late to Allie Broshâs âHyperbole and a Halfâ â later than the outspoken fan Bill Gates and numerous enthusiastic writers for Psychology Today â but when I fell, I fell hard. (I even bought the calendar.) A selection of Broshâs autobiographical word-and-image stories from her blog of the same name (which she began in college while procrastinating for a final), âHyperbole and a Halfâ made me laugh harder than anything I could remember.
First there was her drawing style: a charming, stripped-down visual vocabulary accomplished entirely in the free software program Paintbrush, in which faces â of effervescently manic children, bewildered staring parents and various dogs â took center stage as vehicles of expression.
Portland s legendary bookstore is highlighting five books in 2021 for you to get lost in. Author: Jon Goodwin Updated: 6:54 PM PST January 5, 2021
PORTLAND, Ore. What it lacks in height, it makes up for in word count. Powell’s Books is a staple of Portland, the flagship store still stands tall on West Burnside Street.
“We re here because of Portland and because of the people here,” said Powell’s marketing coordinator Emily Brodowicz.
An up-and-down year put the independent bookstore’s future in limbo. Thanks to online sales and a holiday season that was as good as expected, their three stores across the metro area have methodically reopened.
December 31, 2020
It’s New Year’s Eve Day, that time of year when most folks spend a few hours pretending to work, watch the lackluster market and read a lot of year in review articles. We’ll have a few here, for sure, and every financial pundit in the industry is talking about the year that was and making predictions for 2021.
I suppose it’s expected that I do the same, but maybe we can dispense with the formalities and make a few interesting observations and less-than-obvious predictions for the year to come. Honestly, despite everything being awful, it was a pretty great year for the ETF Market, which puts me in mind of the picture above, which I realize will be lost on everyone under 40 years old. (He’s the mascot from an old humor magazine kids, you can google him.)