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2013 Award Books for Children
Awarded annually by the American Library Association.
John Newbery Medal for most outstanding contribution to children's literature:
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Winner:
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
Ivan, a shopping mall gorilla, and Ruby, a baby elephant taken from her family, meet and help each other. Katherine Applegate blends humor and poignancy to create Ivan's unforgettable first-person narration in a story of friendship, art, and hope.
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Honor Book: Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz
When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival. |
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Honor Book: Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
This is the story of the plotting, the risk-taking, the deceit, and genius that created the world's most formidable weapon. This is the story of the atomic bomb.
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Honor Book: Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage
Moses LeBeau--sixth grader, natural born detective, borderline straight-A student, and goddess of free enterprise--washed ashore in Tupelo Landing, North Carolina eleven years ago during a hurricane, and she's been making waves ever since.
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Randolph Caldecott Medal for most distinguished American picture book for children:
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Winner: This Is Not My Hat illustrated and written by Jon Klassen
A tiny minnow wearing a pale blue bowler hat has a thing or two up his fins in this underwater light-on-dark chase scene. |
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Honor Book: Creepy Carrots illustrated by Peter Brown, written by Aaron Reynolds
The Twilight Zone comes to the carrot patch in this clever picture book parable about a rabbit who fears his favorite treats are out to get him. Peter Brown's stylish illustrations pair perfectly with Aaron Reynold's text. |
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Honor Book: Extra Yarn illustrated by Jon Klassen, written by Mac Barnett
With a supply of yarn that never runs out, Annabelle knits for everyone and everything in town until an evil archduke decides he wants the yarn for himself.
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Honor Book: Green illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
How many kinds of green are there? Laura Vaccaro Seeger fashions an homage to a single color and, in doing so, creates a book that inspires delight in all the colors of creation.
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Honor Book: One Cool Friend illustrated by David Small, written by Toni Buzzeo
On a momentous visit to the aquarium, Elliot discovers his dream pet: a penguin. Clever illustrations and a wild surprise ending make this sly, silly tale of friendship and wish fulfillment a kid-pleaser from start to finish.
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Honor Book: Sleep Like a Tiger illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski, written by Mary Logue
Pamela Zagarenski's rich, luminous mixed-media paintings effervesce with odd, charming details that nonsleepy children could examine for hours.
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Coretta Scott King Book Awards, honoring African American authors and illustrators:
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Author Award Winner: Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America written by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney
Presents the stories of ten men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day.
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Illustrator Award Winner: I, Too, Am America illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Langston Hughes
Presents the popular poem by one of the central figures in the Harlem Renaissance, highlighting the courage and dignity of the African American Pullman porters in the early twentieth century.
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Author Honor Award: Each Kindness text written by Jackqueline Woodson, illustrated by E.B. Lewis
When Chloe's teacher gives a lesson about how even small acts of kindness can change the world, Chloe is stung by the lost opportunity for friendship. With its powerful message and striking art, it will resonate with readers long after they've put it down.
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Author Honor Award: No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller written by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
In this work of historical fiction, Nelson tells the story of a man with a passion for knowledge and of a bookstore whose influence has become legendary.
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Illustrator Honor Award: I Have A Dream: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King gave one of the most powerful and memorable speeches in our nation's history. His words, paired with Kadir Nelson's magificent paintings, make for a picture book certain to be treasured by children and adults alike.
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Illustrator Honor Award: Ellen's Broom illustrated by Daniel Minter, written by Kelly Starling Lyons
This story of an African American wedding explains the history of the custom of jumping the broom, and the time when slaves had not been allowed to legally marry before the post-slavery Reconstruction era.
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Illustrator Honor Award: H.O.R.S.E illustrated and written by Christopher Myers
H.O.R.S.E. is a celebration of the sport of basketball, the art of trash-talking, and the idea that what's possible is bounded only by what you can dream.
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Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement
The award pays tribute to the beloved children’s author Virginia Hamilton.
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Demetria Tucker is the winner of the 2013 Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime achievement. Tucker has served as youth services coordinator within the Roanoke (Va.) Public Library System and library media specialist at the Forest Park Elementary School, where she was selected 2007 Teacher of the Year. As family and youth services librarian for the Pearl Bailey Library, a branch of the Newport News (Va.) Public Library System, Tucker now coordinates a youth leadership program, a teen urban literature club and many other programs that support the youth of her community. |
Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in children’s
video:
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Winner for Best Children's Video: Katja Torneman for her film Anna, Emma, and the Condors.
Two sisters, Anna and Emma Parish, together with their father, Chris, the director of the Peregrine Fund at Vermillion Cliffs, and their mother, Ellen, teacher and leader for Roots and Shoots, work for the survival of the California condors. |
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book
Award for the most distinguished informational book for children:
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Winner: Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
This is the story of the plotting, the risk-taking, the deceit, and genius that created the world's most formidable weapon. This is the story of the atomic bomb.
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Honor Book: Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin written and illustrated by Robert Byrd
A dazzling picture-book biography of a fascinating Founding Father. |
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Honor Book: Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 by Larry Dane Brimner
In the course of his astoundingly long lifetime, Moonbird has flown the distance to the moon and halfway back! With inspiring prose, thorough research, and stirring images, Hoose explores the tragedy of extinction through the triumph of a single bird.
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Honor Book: Titanic: Voices from the Disaster written by Deborah Hopkinson
Deborah Hopkinson weaves together the voices of Titanic survivors and witnesses to the disaster to bring the horrors of that terrible night to life. Their recollections are filled with heart-stopping action, devastating drama, and fascinating historical details.
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Mildred
L. Batchelder Award for the most outstanding children’s
book translated into English from a foreign language and
subsequently published in the United States:
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Winner: My Family for the War written by Anne C. Voorhoeve, translated from the German by Tammi Reichel
At the start of World War II, ten-year-old Franziska Mangold is torn from her family when she boards the train that secretly took nearly 10,000 children out of Nazi territory to safety in England. Taken in by strangers, Frances (as she is now known) courageously pieces together a new life for herself.
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Honor Book: A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return written by Zeína Abirached, translated from French by Edward Gauvin
Living in the midst of civil war in Beirut, Lebanon, Zeina and her brother face an evening of apprehension when their parents do not return from a visit to the other side of the city.
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Winner: Son of A Gun written by Anne de Graaf, translated from Dutch by Anne de Graaf
Eight-year-old Liberian Lucky, his ten-year-old sister Nopi, and their schoolmates are kidnapped and forced to become child soldiers, but even after they escape and are reunited with their parents, their lives will never be the same.
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Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for the most distinguished beginning reader book:
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Winner: Up! Tall! and High! written and illustrated by Ethan Long
In three laugh-out-loud situations, an irresistible cast of colorful birds illustrate the concepts of "up," "tall" and "high." These stories beg preschoolers and emerging readers to act them out again and again.
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Honor Book: Let's Go for a Drive! written and illustrated by Mo Willems
In Let's Go for a Drive! Gerald and Piggie want to hit the road. But the best-laid plans of pigs and elephants often go awry. |
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Honor Book: Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons written by Eric Littwin, illustrated by James Dean
Pete the cat loves the buttons on his shirt so much that he makes up a song about them, and even as the buttons pop off, one by one, he still finds a reason to sing.
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Honor Book: Rabbit & Robot: The Sleepover written and illustrated by Cece Bell
Rabbit's carefully planned visit with Robot doesn't work out exactly as he imagined in this offbeat tale about two comically mismatched friends.
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Schneider Family Book Award for a Book that
Embodies an Artistic Expression of the Disability Experience
for Child and Adolescent Audiences:
Recipients are selected in three categories: birth through grade school (age birth–10), middle school (age 11–13), and teens (age 13–18).
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Winner of the Young Child Category:
Back to Front and Upside Down! by Claire Alexander
While the rest of the class makes birthday cards for the principal, Stanley struggles with his words and letters.
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Winner of the Middle School Category:
A Dog Called Homeless by Sarah Lean
Fifth-grader Cally Louise Fisher stops talking, partly because her father and brother never speak of her mother who died a year earlier, but visions of her mother, friendships with a homeless man and a disabled boy, and a huge dog ensure that she still communicates.
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Winner of the Teen Category:
Somebody Please Tell Me Who I Am
by Harry Mazer and Peter Lerangis
Wounded in Iraq while his Army unit is on convoy and treated for many months for traumatic brain injury, the first person Ben remembers from his earlier life is his autistic brother.
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The Pura Belpré Award honors Latino/Latina writers and illustrators whose works best portray, affirm, and celebrate the Latino cultural experience:
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Author Award Winner: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.
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Author Honor Award: The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano by Sonia Manzano
There are two secrets Evelyn Serrano is keeping from her Mami and stepfather. Her true feelings about growing up in her Spanish Harlem neighborhood, and her attitude about Abuela, her sassy grandmother who's come from Puerto Rico to live with them. |
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Illustration Award Winner: Martín de Porres: The Rose in the Desert illustrated by David Díaz and written by Gary D. Schmidt
As the illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman and a former slave, Martín de Porres was born into extreme poverty. Even so, his mother begged the church fathers to allow him into the priesthood. Instead, Martin was accepted as a servant boy. But soon, he was performing miracles. |
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Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for a Substantial and Lasting Contribution to Literature for Children.
Awarded every two years.
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2013 Winner: Katherine Paterson
Katherine Paterson is the winner of the 2013 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award honoring an author or illustrator, published in the United States, whose books have made a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children. Her numerous works include Bridge to Terabithia, Jacob Have I Loved, and The Great Gilly Hopkins.
“Katherine Paterson has been writing books that have made a profound difference in children’s lives for 40 years. Her work acknowledges life’s challenges and difficulties, yet she always leaves her readers with hope. With her commitment to helping children become better citizens of the world, she is the perfect choice for this moment in time,” said Wilder Award Committee Chair Martha V. Parravano. |
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Odyssey Award for best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults:
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Odyssey Award Winner: The Fault in Our Stars written by John Green, narrated by Kate Rudd
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal. But when gorgeous Augustus Waters appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be rewritten. |
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Honor Audio: Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian written by Eoin Colfer, narrated by Nathaniel Parker
Artemis's arch rival Opal Koboi has reanimated dead fairy warriors that take possession of Artemis's little brothers. Artemis has until sunrise to get the spirits to vacate his brothers and go back into the earth where they belong. |
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Honor Audio: Monstrous Beauty (Book format; audio format not in collection at this time) written by Elizabeth Fama, narrated by Katherine Kellgren
Fierce, seductive mermaid Syrenka falls in love with Ezra, a young naturalist. When she abandons her life underwater for a chance at happiness on land, she is unaware that this decision comes with horrific and deadly consequences. |
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Honor Audio: Ghost Knight written by Cornelia Funke, narrated by Elliot Hill
Eleven-year-old Jon Whitcroft and new friend Ella summon the ghost of Sir William Longspee, who may be able to protect Jon from a group of ghosts that threatens him harm from the day he arrives at Salisbury Cathedral's boarding school. |
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