2021 Youth Media Award Winners!

John Newbery Medal

Winner:

When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller

Honors:

All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat

BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford

Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

We Dream of Space by Erin Entrada Kelly  

A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat

Randolph Caldecott Medal

Winner:

We Are Water Protectors illustrated by Michaela Goade

Honors:

A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart illustrated by Noa Denmon

The Cat Man of Aleppo illustrated by Yuko Shimizu

Me & Mama  illustrated by Cozbi A. Cabrera  

Outside In illustrated by Cindy Derby

Theodor Seuss Geisel Award

Winner:

See the Cat: Three Stories about a Dog by David LaRochelle

Honors:

The Bear in My Family  by Maya Tatsukawa

Ty’s Travels: Zip, Zoom! by Kelly Starling Lyons

What About Worms!? by Ryan T. Higgins  

Where’s Baby? by Anne Hunter

Coretta Scott King Book Award

Winner (Illustrator Award):

R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul illustrated by Frank Morrison

Honors (Illustrator Awards):

Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration illustrated by Kaylani Juanita

 Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks illustrated by Cozbi A. Cabrera

Me & Mama illustrated by Cozbi A. Cabrera

Winner (Author Award):

Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson

Honors (Author Awards):

King and the Dragonflies  by Kacen Callender

Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box by Evette Dionne

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal

Winner:

Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera by Candace Fleming

Honors:

How We Got to the Moon by John Rocco

Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks by Suzanne Slade

All Thirteen by Christina Soontornvat

Schneider Family Book Award

Winner (Young Children):

I Talk Like a River by Jordan Scott

Honors (Young Children):

All the Way to the Top by Annette Bay Pimentel

Itzhak: A Boy Who Loved the Violin by Tracy Newman

Winner (Middle Grades):

Show Me a Sign by Ann Clare LeZotte

Honors (Middle Grades):

Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen! by Sarah Kapit

When Stars are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed 

Pura Belpré Award

Winner (Illustrator):

¡Vamos! Let’s Go Eat by Raúl Gonzalez

Honor (Illustrator):

Sharuko: El Arqueólogo Peruano/Peruvian Archaeologist illustrated by Elisa Chavarri

Winner (Author):

Efrén Divided by Ernesto Cisneros

Honors (Author):

The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez by Adrianna Cuevas

Lupe Wong Won’t Dance  by Donna Barba Higuera

Stonewall Book Award

Winner:

We are Little Feminists: Families by Archaa Shrivastav

Honor:

Beetle & the Hollowbones by Aliza Layne