A text-only PowerPoint of the 2018 ALA Youth Media Awards.

1. American Library Association
2018 Youth Media Awards
Announced live on February 12, 2018

2. Schneider Family Book Award
For books that embody an artistic
expression of the disability experience
for child and adolescent audiences

3. Schneider Family Book Award –
Young Children
Silent Days, Silent Dreams by Allen Say

4. Schneider Family Book Award –
Middle Grade
Macy McMillan and the Rainbow
Goddess by Shari Green

5. Schneider Family Book Award –
Teen
You’re Welcome, Universe by Whitney
Gardner

6. Stonewall Book Award
Given annually to English-language
children’s and young adult books of
exceptional merit relating to the gay,
lesbian, bisexual, and transgender
experience

7. Stonewall Book Award –
Honors
As the Crow Flies by Melanie Gillman
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and
Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

8. Stonewall Book Award – Winners
Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater

9. Coretta Scott King Book
Award
Recognizing an African American author
and illustrator of outstanding books for
children and young adults

10. Coretta Scott King – Virginia
Hamilton Award for Lifetime
Achievement
Eloise Greenfield

11. Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe
New Talent Author Award
David Barclay Moore for The Stars
Beneath Our Feet

12. Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe
New Talent Illustrator Award
Charly Palmer for Mama Africa! How
Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her
Song; Written by Kathryn Erskine

13. Coretta Scott King (Illustrator)
Book Award – Honors
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
Illustrated by Gordon C. James;
Written by Derrick Barnes
Before She Was Harriet: The Story of
Harriet Tubman Illustrated by James
E. Ransome; Written by Lesa Cline-
Ransome

14. Coretta Scott King (Illustrator)
Book Award – Winner
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating
Poets Illustrated by Ekua Holmes;
Written by Kwame Alexander with
Chris Colderley and Marjory
Wentworth

15. Coretta Scott King (Author) Book
Award - Honors
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut Written
by Derrick Barnes; Illustrated by
Gordon C. James
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

16. Coretta Scott King (Author) Book
Award - Winner
Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson

17. Alex Awards
For the 10 best adult books that have
special appeal to young adults ages
12-18

18. Alex Awards
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
The Clockwork Dynasty by Daniel H.
Wilson
Down Among the Sticks and Bones by
Seanan McGuire
Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea by
Melissa Fleming

19. Alex Awards
Malagash by Joey Comeau
Roughneck by Jeff Lemire
She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper
Things We Have in Common by Tasha
Kavanagh
An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat
Howard

20. Margaret A. Edwards Award
For significant and lasting contribution
to young adult literature

21. Margaret A. Edwards Award
Angela Johnson

22. William C. Morris Award
For a debut book published by a
previously unpublished author writing
for teens

23. William C. Morris Award –
Honors
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Devils Within by S.F. Henson
Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali
Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman

24. William C. Morris Award –
Winner
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

25. YALSA Award for Excellence in
Nonfiction for Young Adults –
Honors#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native
American Women edited by Lisa
Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale
Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda
Taro, and the Invention of Modern
Photojournalism by Marc Aronson and
Marina Budhos
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two
Teenagers and the Crime that Changed
Their Lives by Dashka Slater
The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared,
Wrecked, and Found by Martin W.
Sandler

26. YALSA Award for Excellence in
Nonfiction for Young Adults –
Winner
Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh
Brothers by Deborah Heiligman

27. Michael L. Printz Award
For excellence in literature written for
young adults

28. Michael L. Printz Award –
Honors
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh
Brothers by Deborah Heiligman

29. Michael L. Printz Award – Winner
We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

30. Odyssey Award
For best audiobook produced for
children and/or young adults, available
in English in the United States

31. Odyssey Award – Honors
The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage Written by
Philip Pullman; Narrated by Michael Sheen;
Produced by Listening Library
A Boy Called Christmas Written by Matt Haig;
Narrated by Stephen Fry; Produced by Listening
Library
Long Way Down Written and narrated by Jason
Reynolds; produced by Simon & Schuster Audio
Trombone Shorty Written by Troy Andrews;
Illustrated by Bryan Collier; Narrated by Dion
Graham; Produced by Live Oak Media
The Wizards of Once Written by Cressida Cowell;
Narrated by David Tennant; Produced by Hodder
Children’s Books

32. Odyssey Award – Winner
The Hate U Give Written by Angie
Thomas; Narrated by Bahni Turpin;
Produced by HarperAudio

33. Pura Belpré Award
Honoring a Latino writer and illustrator
whose children’s books portray, affirm,
and celebrate the Latino cultural
experience in an outstanding work of
literature for youth

34. Pura Belpré (Illustrator) Award –
Honors
All Around Us Illustrated by Adriana M.
Garcia; Written by Xelena González
Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos
Illustrated by John Parra; Written by
Monica Brown

35. Pura Belpré (Illustrator) Award –
Winner
La Princesa and the Pea Illustrated by
Juana Martinez-Neal; Written by
Susan Middleton Elya

36. Pura Belpré Award for Text -
Honors
The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora by Pablo
Cartaya
The First Rule of Punk by Celia C.
Pérez

37. Pura Belpré Award for Text -
Winner
Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth Behar

38. May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture
Award
Recognizing an author, critic, librarian,
historian or teacher of children’s
literature, who then presents a lecture
at a winning host site

39. May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture
Award
Debbie Reese

40. Mildred L. Batchelder Award
For an outstanding children’s book
translated from a foreign language
and subsequently published in the
United States

41. Mildred L. Batchelder Award –
Honors
Malala: Activist for Girls’ Education Written
by Raphaële Frier; Illustrated by Aurélia
Fronty; Translated from French by Julie
Cormier
When a Wolf is Hungry Written by
Christine Naumann-Villemin; Illustrated
by Kris Di Giacomo; Translated from
French by Eerdmans Books for Young
Readers
You Can’t Be Too Careful! Written and
illustrated by Roger Mello; Translated
from Portuguese by Daniel Hahn

42. Mildred L. Batchelder Award –
Winner
The Murderer’s Ape written and
illustrated by Jakob Wegelius;
translated from Swedish by Peter
Graves

43. Robert F. Sibert Informational
Book Award
For most distinguished informational
book for children

44. Robert F. Sibert Informational
Book Award – Honors
Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food
Remix Written by Jacqueline Briggs
Martin and June Jo Lee; Illustrated by
Man One
Grand Canyon by Jason Chin
Not So Different: What You Really Want
to Ask about Having a Disability
Written by Shane Burcaw; Illustrated
by Matt Carr
Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That

45. Robert F. Sibert Informational
Book Award – Winner
Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride
1961 by Larry Dane Brimner

46. Laura Ingalls Wilder Award
Honors an author or illustrator whose
books, published in the United States,
have made, over a period of years, a
substantial and lasting contribution to
literature for children

47. Laura Ingalls Wilder Award
Jacqueline Woodson

48. Theodore Seuss Geisel
Award
For the most distinguished beginning
reader book which, through literary
and artistic achievements,
demonstrates creativity and
imagination to engage children in
reading

49. Theodore Seuss Geisel Award –
Honors
I See a Cat by Paul Meisel
King & Kayla and the Case of the
Missing Dog Treats Written by Dori
Hillestad Butler; Illustrated by Nancy
Meyers
My Kite Is Stuck! And Other Stories by
Salina Yoon
Noodleheads See the Future Written by
Tedd Arnold, Martha Hamilton, and
Mitch Weiss; Illustrated by Tedd
Arnold

50. Theodore Seuss Geisel Award –
Winner
Charlie & Mouse Written by Laurel
Snyder; Illustrated by Emily Hughes

51. Randolph Caldecott Medal
For the most distinguished American
picture book for children

52. Randolph Caldecott Medal –
Honors
Big Cat, little cat by Elisha Cooper
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
Illustrated by Gordon C. James;
Written by Derrick Barnes
A Different Pond Illustrated by Thi Bui;
Written by Bao Phi
Grand Canyon by Jason Chin

53. Randolph Caldecott Medal –
Winner
Wolf in the Snow by Matthew Cordell

54. John Newbery Medal
For the most distinguished contribution
to children’s literature

55. John Newbery Medal –
Honors
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut Written
by Derrick Barnes; Illustrated by
Gordon C. James

56. John Newbery Medal –
Winner
Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly