Awards

The author of Honey, I Love died last week, leaving a lasting impact on generations of readers and Black authors. 

The BCALA Children and Youth Literary Awards, sponsored by SLJ, honor phenomenal works of fiction and nonfiction by Black authors in four categories.

Gene Luen Yang won two Eisner Awards for Superman Smashes the Klan (Best Publication for Kids, and Best Adaptation from Another Medium) and one for Dragon Hoops (Best Publication for Teens).

I Talk Like a River, A Sitting in St. James, and From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry won this year's Boston Globe-Horn Book awards for excellence in children's and YA literature.

To celebrate effective partnership, School Library Journal will honor two K–12 educators—a library professional and a teacher—with a new award, sponsored by TLC.

The Librarian/Teacher Collaboration Award honors a pair of K–12 educators—a library professional and a teacher—for stellar achievement in engaging students toward fostering curious lifetime learners. 

The publishing world was shocked by the unexpected death of Scholastic's Dick Robinson; We Need Diverse Books will no longer use #OwnVoices; News Literacy Project announces Educator of the Year and more in this edition of News Bites. 

The Bank Street's Center for Children's Literature award is voted on by first and second graders around the world.

Magoon spoke with best-selling author Ibi Zoboi about the book that’s closest to her heart, forming her identity while reckoning with history, and being a writer ahead of her time.