The Newbery and Caldecott winners were announced yesterday. For those who aren't familiar with these two highly prestigious awards, here's the quick and dirty... Newbery (one R!) is for contributions to children's literature in books designed for about grade 3-6th. They're nearly always sad (These are the books that teachers love to assign). The Caldecott Medal is for picture books, and usually the illustrations are the big deal there.
I haven't read either one of this year's winners, but I do have the Newbery Medal winner on its way from Amazon.Newbery Medal
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
Caldecott Medal
This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen
The ALA's website (linked above) also have lists of the previous winners for both awards as well as the Honor books (runners up).
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