Authors Kwame Alexander and Jacqueline Woodson were among those who helped celebrate the golden anniversary of the awards.
Elizabeth Acevedo earns another honor for The Poet X, as the winners of the 2019 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals were announced.
A new tool to help teach students which news outlets to trust; the UN releases its second book club list; and libraries are having their moment on Jeopardy!
A tribute to M.T. Anderson, who received the 2019 Margaret A. Edwards Award, which honors a “significant and lasting” contribution to young adult literature.
The Patchwork Bike, This Promise of Change, and The Season of Styx Malone earned this year's awards, Horn Book editor-in-chief Roger Sutton announced at SLJ's Day of Dialog.
Author Erin Entrada Kelly answered SLJ's questions about her Newbery-winning middle grade novel Hello Universe being adapted into a Netflix movie.
A new player emerges in the YA market vowing to publish “unapologetic, authentic, and politically relevant” heavily illustrated and graphic nonfiction; Erin Entrada Kelly joins the list of authors tapped for Netflix adaptations; and more in this edition of News Bites.
The National Book Foundation today announced the West Philadelphia Alliance for Children (WePAC) as the winner of the 2019 Innovations in Reading Prize.
The Palestinian-American writer becomes the first Arab-American to earn the honor.
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