{"id":3800,"date":"2023-02-14T00:44:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T00:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/?p=3800"},"modified":"2023-02-14T00:44:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T00:44:46","slug":"youth-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/2023\/02\/14\/youth-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>John Newbery Medal<\/strong>&nbsp;for the most outstanding contribution to children\u2019s literature:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/americanlibrariesmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/newbery-freewater.jpg\" alt=\"Book cover for Freewater\" class=\"wp-image-133370\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>Freewater,<\/em>&nbsp;written by Amina Luqman-Dawson, is the 2023 Newbery Medal winner. The book is published by JIMMY Patterson\/Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three Newbery Honor Books also were named:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Iveliz Explains It All,\u00a0<\/em>written by Andrea Beatriz Arango, published by Random House Children\u2019s Books, a division of Penguin Random House;\u00a0<em>The Last Mapmaker<\/em>, written by Christina Soontornvat, published by Candlewick Press; and\u00a0<em>Maizy Chen\u2019s Last Chance<\/em>, written by Lisa Yee, published by Random House Children\u2019s Books, a division of Penguin Random House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Randolph Caldecott Medal<\/strong>&nbsp;for the most distinguished American picture book for children:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/americanlibrariesmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/caldecott-hot-dog.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of Hot Dog\" class=\"wp-image-133368\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>Hot Dog,<\/em>&nbsp;illustrated and written by Doug Salati, is the 2023 Caldecott Medal winner. The book was published by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children\u2019s Books, a division of Penguin Random House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four Caldecott Honor Books also were named:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ain\u2019t Burned All the Bright<\/em>, illustrated by Jason Griffin, written by Jason Reynolds, and published by Caitlyn Dlouhy Books\/Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon &amp; Schuster Children\u2019s Publishing;&nbsp;<em>Berry Song<\/em><em>,&nbsp;<\/em>illustrated and written by Michaela Goade, published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group Inc.;&nbsp;<em>Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement,<\/em>&nbsp;illustrated by Janelle Washington, written by Angela Joy, and published by Roaring Brook Press, an imprint of Macmillan Children\u2019s Publishing Group; and&nbsp;<em>Knight Owl<\/em><em>,&nbsp;<\/em>illustrated and written by Christopher Denise, published by Christy Ottaviano Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Newbery Medal&nbsp;for the most outstanding contribution to children\u2019s literature: Freewater,&nbsp;written by Amina Luqman-Dawson, is the 2023 Newbery Medal winner. The book is published by JIMMY Patterson\/Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Three Newbery Honor Books also were named: Iveliz <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/2023\/02\/14\/youth-award-winners\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Youth Award Winners<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3801,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800\/revisions\/3801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}