​2019 Youth Media Award Winners

The American Library Association (ALA) recently announced the top books for children and young adults—including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery, and Pura Belpré awards. Take a look at the winner and honor titles!

Newbery Award

Merci Suarez Changes Gears

by Meg Medina

Winner

​The Night Diary

by Veera Hiranandani

Honor

​The Book of Boy

by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Honor

​Caldecott Award

​Hello Lighthouse

by Sophie Blackall

Winner

​Alma and How She Got Her Name

by Juana Martinez-Neal

Honor

​A Big Mooncake for Little Star

by Grace Lin

Honor

​The Rough Patch

by Brian Lies

Honor

​Thank You, Omu!

by Oge Mora

Honor

​Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award

​A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919

by Claire Hartfield

Winner

​Finding Langston

by Lesa Kline-Ransome

Honor

​The Parker Inheritance

by Varian Johnson

Honor

​The Season of Styx Malone

by Kekla Magoon

Honor

​Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book Award

​The Stuff of Stars

by Marion Dane Bauer, illustrated by Akua Holmes

Winner

​Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

by Margot Lee Shetterfly, illustrated by Laura Freeman

Honor

​Let the Children March

by Monica Clark-Robinson, illustrated by Frank Morrison

Honor

​Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop

by Alice Faye Duncan, illustratrated by R. Gregory Christie

Honor

​Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award

​Monday's Not Coming

by Tiffany D. Jackson

Winner

​Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award

​Thank You, Omu!

by Oge Mora

Winner

​Pura Belpré Author Award

​The Poet X

by Elizabeth Acevedo

Winner

​They Call Me Güero

by David Bowles

Honor

​Pura Belpré Illustrator Award

​Dreamers

by Yuyi Morales

Winner

​Islandborn

by Junot Díaz, illustrated by Leo Espinosa

Honor

​When Angels Sing: The Story of Rock Legend Carlos Santana

by Michael James Mahin, illustrated by Jose Ramirez

Honor