I get so excited every year when the Newberry Award is announced. This medal is given every year by the American Library Association "to the author of the year's most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." My mom taught 5th grade for more than 25 years and she always told me that you can't go wrong with a Newberry book. I was delighted when I learned that this year's winner is both written by a Kansas author and set in Kansas. It is Moon Over Manifest
by Clare Vanderpool. I haven't read it yet, but am looking forward to it. It is set during the depression with another story/mystery from World War I interwoven. Here are links to this year's winner and the Honor Books (runners up):Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman
One Crazy Summer
by Rita Willimas-Garcia
Heart of a Samurai
by Margi Preus
Turtle in Paradise
by Jennifer L. Holm
Caldecott Medal:
The Caldecott Medal is given each year by the ALA to the most deserving picture book. This year's winner is A Sick Day for Amos McGee
by Philip Christian Stead. Below are links to it the Honor Books.A Sick Day for Amos McGee
by Philip Christian Stead
Interrupting Chicken
by David Ezra Stein
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
by Laban Carrick Hill
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