Jennie, cold nose, cold toes

Happy Black History Month 🖤✨

Libraries and books are from perfect. The Dewey Decimal System is imperfect. But we will never forget the work of Dorothy B. Porter. She decolonized the Dewey Decimal System. She helped us belong in libraries, in books.

We celebrate and thank you, Dorothy B. Porter 💜📚

What We Saw in Minneapolis Our visual journalists documented the days surrounding Alex Pretti’s killing in Minneapolis.

MUST READ this powerful, intimate dispatch from Minneapolis by @propublica.org visual journalists @peterdicampo.bsky.social (who lives there) & @cengizyar.com

This is America.

Friends, I'm halfway through new Frankenstein and very upset I didn't get to see Frankenmonster ride out to safety through the drainage pipe like a log flume. Missed opportunity for sure

Look at these amazing books! Winners & honorees of the first year of ALA's Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table's outstanding Comics Awards - Childrens! @libcomix.bsky.social

Graphic Novels and Comics Round table announces the 2025 Outstanding comics awards for Adults, Young Adults, Children for Fiction, Non-fiction, and series. Book covers of the winners in the background.

Exciting news! 🎉

The inaugural Outstanding Comics Awards was announced today

Each award has three categories: fiction, non-fiction, and series!

🧵 for press releases
Browse the Awards winners and honorees on our site
www.ala.org/gncrt/awards...

#LibComix

An illustration of Paul Bunyan, the giant American mythic lumberjack, giving one ICE agent a wedgie, and punting another with a shoe. Another ICE agent has just slipped and eaten shit on the ground, without anyone’s help. The text reads PAUL BUNYAN SEZ FUCK ICE.

Paul Bunyan sez FUCK ICE.

The Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table announce ‘Froggy: A Pond Full of Pals!’, ‘How to Draw a Secret’ and ‘Witches of Brooklyn’ win the inaugural Outstanding Comics for Children Awards The Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table announce ‘Froggy: A Pond Full of Pals!’, ‘How to Draw a Secret’ and ‘Witches of Brooklyn’ win the inaugural Outstanding Comics for Children Awards.

Being the first chair of this committee, ALA GNCRT's Outstanding Comics Award - Childrens, was the challenge, dream, and honor of a lifetime. And we can finally share our winners! Huge shout out to @schweizercomics.bsky.social for creating the book seals!

Congratulations to all the authors, illustrators, publishers, and committee members! #ALAyma

Can't wait to read the ones I haven't read yet!

Newbery Awards
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Honors
The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli by Karina Yan Glaser
A Sea of Lemon Trees by Maria Dolores Aguila
The Teacher of Nomad Land by Daniel Nayeri
The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest by Aubrey Hartman

Winner
All the Blues in the Sky by Renee Watson

Caldecott Awards
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Honors
Every Monday Mabel by Jashar Awan
Our Lake by Angie Kang
Stalactite & Stalagmite by Drew Beckmeyer
Sundust by Zeke Pena

Winner
Fireworks illus by Catia Chien, written by Matthew Burgess

Geisel Awards
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Honors
Earl & Worm: The Big Mess and Other Stories by Greg Pizzoli
I Like Hoops by Juwanda G. Ford, Illus by Jada Jeni Bennett
The Tunneler Tunnels in the Tunnel by Michael Rex

Winner
Stop that Mop! by Jonathan Fenske

Children’s Literature Legacy Award
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This year's winner is Candace Fleming!

She's finally getting all the flowers!

Odyssey Awards
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Children's Winner
Clack, Clack! Smack! A Cherokee Stickball Story! by Traci Sorell, illus Joseph Erb

YA Winner
Trans History by Alex L. Combs and Andrew Eakett

Odyssey Awards
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Honors
The Dead of Summer by Ryan La Sala
Legendary Frybread Drive-In ed by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Soundtrack by Jason Reynolds
Whale Eyes by James Robinson, illus by Brian Rea

Sibert Medal
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Winner
Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka con la Papa by Sara Andrea Fajardo, illus by Juana Martinez-Neal

Sibert Medal
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Honors
At Last She Stood by Erin Entrada Kelly
Go Tell It by Quartez Harris, illus Gordon C. James
The History of We by Nikkolas Smith
Silenced Voices by Pablo Leon
A World Without Summer by Nicholas Day, illus Yas Imamura

Batchelder Award
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Pilgrim Codex by Vivian Mansour, illus by Emmanuel Valtierra, trans Carlos Rodriguez Cortez

Winner
Croco by Azul Lopez

Batchelder Award
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Honors
The Adventures of Cipollino by Gianni Rodari, illus Dasha Tolstikova
From the Memen to Mori by Shinsuke Yoshitake, trans Ajani Oloye
Picking Tean with Baba by Xu Bin, illus by Yu Yin, trans by Shan Chen

ALSC Children's Literature Lecture Award #ALAyma

Kwame Alexander!

Pura Belpré Award #ALAyma

YA Honors
Rosa by Any Other Name by Hailey Alcaraz
Silenced Voices by Pablo Leon
The Story of My Anger by Jasminne Mendez

Winner
On the Wings of la Noche by Vanessa L. Torres

Pura Belpré Award #ALAyma

Author Honors
The Hero's Guide to Summer Vacation by Pablo Cartaya
The Island of Forgotten Gods by Victor Pineiro
A Sea of Lemon Trees by Maria Dolores Aguila

Author Winner
The Pecan Sheller by Lupe Ruiz-Flores

Pura Belpré Award #ALAyma

Illustrator Honors
A-Ztec by Emmanuel Valtierra
The Invisible Parade by John Picado, written by Leigh Bardugo and John Picado

Illustrator Winner
Popo the Xolo illus by Abraham Matias, written by Paloma Angelina Lopez

Printz Award
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Honors
Cope Field by T.L. Simpson
The House That No One Sees by Adina King
Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley
Song of a Blackbird by Maria van Lieshout

Winner
Legendary Frybread Drive-In ed by Cynthia Leitich Smith

YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award
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Nominees
American Spirits by Barb Rosenstock
Death in the Jungle by Candace Fleming
White House Secrets by Gail Jarrow
White Lies by Ann Bausum
A World Without Summer by Nicholas Day, illus by Yas Imamura

Winner
Death in the Jungle by Candace Fleming

Morris Award #ALAyma

Finalists
All the Noise at Once by DeAndra Davis
First Love Language by Stefany Valentine
Love, Misha by Askel Aden
Red Flags and Butterflies by Sheryl Azzam
You and Me on Repeat by Mary Shyne

Winner
All the Noise at Once by DeAndra Davis

Margaret A. Edwards Award #ALAyma

This year's winner is Candace Fleming!

Alex Awards #ALAyma

Plum by Andy Anderegg
Sonita by Sonita Alizada
These Heathens by Mia McKenzie
What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown
The Whyte Python World Tour by Travis Kennedy

Alex Awards #ALAyma

The Favorites by Layne Fargo
The Girls Who Grew Big by Leila Mottley
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen
Hole in the Sky by Daniel H. Wilson
Insectopolis by Peter Kuper

Coretta Scott King Awards #ALAyma

Illustrator Winner
The Library

Author Honors
The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze
The Library in the Woods
Split the Sky

Author Winner
Will's Race for Home by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Coretta Scott King Awards #ALAyma

John Steptoe Award
Arriel Vinson for Under the Neon Lights

Illustrator Honors
Andre: Andre Leon Talley... illus by Lamont O'Neal, written by Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders
City Summer, Country Summer illus by Alexis Franklin, written by Kiese Laymon