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.
Chronicle Staff December 23, 2020
When describing 2020, most of the adjectives that come to mind are unprintable. But a bright side to this otherwise very bad year is a sense of shared experience. We’ve lived through it together.
We’ve asked our writers to name a book they think best captures 2020. Perhaps it was through a scene that was a perfect reflection of our isolation, or a line that epitomized the political divide. It could be a moment that tapped into an emotion or mood that we all felt or a revelation about what it all might have meant.
‘What Happens at Night’
, illustrated by Pascal Campion.
I knew things were going to get hard when the library closed.
I am, by profession, a writer and a professor of storytelling. I’ve read to my twin children now four since their infancy. But as avid readers as we already were, 2020 upped our reading quotient, and markedly. Without the library to turn to, mid-March found me binge-buying picture books both online and from our local bookstore. And when, mid-summer, our library re-opened for curbside pickup, I instantly queued up more books than I was permitted. In September, when we were, at last, allowed back in the building to browse, my kids squealed with glee. I wept.