Comics-Makers, Comics Amongst Battery Of Winners And Honorees Announced At ALA Mid-Winter Meeting



This is as big of an overall list of medal winners and honors-award winners in the youth media category I can remember seeing announced by the American Library Association at their mid-winter meetings. The big recipients of the traditional, you've-likely-heard-of-them-before awards were Kwame Alexander, whose The Crossover from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is the John Newbery Medal winner and Dan Santat, whose The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend was the Randolph Caldecott Medal winner.

Several comics-makers were given "honors awards" for their work, with one cartoonist-related book receiving one of the named prizes.

* Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki won two honors awards for This One Summer. It was one of six books named a Caldecott Honor Award winner, and was one of four books named a Printz Honor Award winner. A press release from First Second says this is the first time a comic/graphic novel has won a Caldecott Honor Award.

* Cece Bell's El Deafo, from Amulet Books, was one of two books named a Newbery Honor Award.

* the First Second-published Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust, from Loic Dauvillier, Marc Lizano and Greg Salsedo with a translation by Alexis Siegel was one of two books named a Batchelder Honor Book.

* a video adaptation of Patrick McDonnell's Caldecott Honor winning Me... Jane won this years Andrew Carnegie Medal.

* Mo Willems Waiting Is Not Easy! with Hyperion was one of two books named a Geisel Honor Book.

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Huge congratulations to those creators and to all those involved with the making of those books, both comics-makers and those employing more traditional methods.
 
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