More Award Winners

The Youth Media Awards were announced on Monday. Here is a look at more award winners.

Schneider Family Book Award for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience:

“Back to Front and Upside Down!” written and illustrated by Claire Alexander wins the award for children ages 0 to 10.

While the rest of the class makes birthday cards for the principal, Stanley struggles with his words and letters.

“A Dog Called Homeless” written by Sarah Lean is the winner of the middle-school (ages 11-13) award.

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.

Laura Ingalls Wilder Award honors an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made, over a period of years, a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children. The 2013 winner is Katherine Paterson. You may recognize her from her Newbery winner “Bridge to Terabithia.”






Pura Belpré (Illustrator) Award honoring a Latino writer and illustrator whose children's books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience.

“Martin de Porres: the Rose in the Desert” illustrated by David Diaz, written by Gary D. Schmidt.  The story of Saint Martin de Porres, an endearing tale of perseverance, faith, and triumph over racial and economic prejudice.







Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for the most distinguished beginning reader book. We have the HONOR books at the library:

“Let’s Go for a Drive!” written and illustrated by Mo Willems.  Elephant Gerald and Piggie want to go for a drive, but as Gerald thinks of one thing after another that they will have to take along, they come to realize that they lack the most important thing of all.

“Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons” by Eric Litwin, created and 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.

“Rabbit & Robot: The Sleepover,” written and illustrated by Cece Bell. Rabbit is excited about the sleepover he has carefully planned for his friend Robot, but Robot has some different ideas about how things should go.