The 2025 ALA Youth Media
Awards will take place on Monday, January 27, 2025 from 8:00a.m.-9:30 a.m. MT
during LibLearnX, The Library Learning Experience conference. The following
awards will be given during this time: 2025 Coretta Scott King Award, 2025
Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults, 2025 John Newberry Medal, 2025
Randolph Caldecott Medal, 2025 Michael L. Printz Award, 2025 Pura Belpre
Award, 2025 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book medal, and the
2025 Schneider Family Book Award.
The 2025 Coretta Scott King
Award is a set of annual awards to honor African American authors and
illustrators of outstanding books for children and young adults. Follet Content
has put together a shortlist of contenders for these awards. Of those, the
CMRLS has the following titles available for your perusal to decide which ones
you think should win the coveted award: The Secret Library by Keekla
Magoon, Black Star by Kwame Alexander, Black Girl You are
Atlas by Renee Watson, and Freedom on the Sea by Michael Boulware
Moore.
The 2025 Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults awards the best nonfiction books written for young adults published the previous year. Of those that Follet Content shortlisted, your CMRLS has the following title available: The Mine Wars by Steve Watkins.
The 2025 John Newberry Medal is given to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. Of those that Follet Content shortlisted, the CMRLS has the following titles available for checkout: The Secret Library by Kekla Magoon, Black Star by Kwame Alexander, Louder Than Hunger by John Schu, Winnie Nash is Not Your Sunshine by Nicole Melleby, Tree. Table. Book. By Lois Lowry, The Other Side of Tomorrow by Tina Cho, The Girl Who Sang by Estelle Nadel, The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys, Olivetti by Allie Millington, Max in the House of Spies by Adam Gidwitz, Ferris by Kate Dicamillo, and Deep Water by Jamie Sumner.
The 2025 Randolph Caldecott
Medal is given to the artist of the most distinguished American picture
book for children published in the United States. Of those shortlisted this
year, the CMRLS has the following titles available: The Fastest Drummer
by Dean Robbins, illustrator, Susanna Chapman, Two Together by author/illustrator,
Brendan Wenzel, Finding Things by Kevin Henkes, illustrated by Laura
Dronzek, Home in a Lunchbox by author/illustrator Cherry Mo, Dalmartian
by author/illustrator, Lucy Cummins, are you BIG? by author/illustrator,
Mo Willems, and Ahoy! by author/illustrator, Sophie Blackall.
The 2025 Michael L. Printz Award is for Excellence in Young Adult Literature. Of those shortlisted, the CMRLS has the following titles available: Black Girl You are Atlas by Renee Watson, Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Yang, Kindling by Traci Chee, Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay, and Ash’s Cabin by Jen Wang.
The 2025 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal is given to the author and illustrator of the most distinguished book published in the United States in the previous year. Of those shortlisted, CMRLS has the following titles: Freedom on the Sea by Michael Boulware Moore illustrated by Bryan Collier, and The Fastest Drummer by Dean Robbins and illustrated by Susanna Chapman.
The 2025 Schneider
Family Book Award is given to honor
books that best portray the experience of children and adolescents with
disabilities. Unfortunately, the CMRLS has no titles available in the
collection, but those that are shortlisted may be obtained through ILL.
Who will win these prestigious
awards on Monday, January 27th? Tune in to find out and contact your
local CMRLS library and check out some of the titles highlighted here.
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