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Winners of 2026 Newbery, Caldecott, Printz Awards Announced

Renée Watson has won the 2026 John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature, for her novel All the Blues in the Sky (Bloomsbury), edited by Sarah Shumway. Cátia Chien has won this year’s Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished picture book for children, for Fireworks (Clarion), written by Matthew Burgess, acquired by Mabel Hsu and edited by Hsu and Kate O’Sullivan. And Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories, compiled by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Heartdrum), edited by Rosemary Brosnan, has won the Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults. Read more

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The 2022 Newbery and Caldecott Medal winners honor tales about the apocalypse, heritage and history

The literacy nonprofit’s awards, which include the Newbery Medal, Caldecott Medal and Coretta Scott King Awards, honor the best in children’s and young adult literature, from picture books to novels. And this year’s winners, announced Monday during a livestreamed ceremony, represent a wide spectrum of experiences and backgrounds. Read more

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Generating Hope: Jack Zipes Republishes Anti-Fascist Children’s Book from the Early 20th Century

IN THE DARK DAYS leading up to the 2020 election, Jack Zipes, professor emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota and one of the world’s foremost experts on fairy tales and books for children, started in his retirement a new publishing house, Little Mole & Honey Bear, that aims to bring back from obscurity out-of-print children’s books that address political issues, such as the rise of fascism. Such books, often published in the 1930s and 1940s, are strikingly resonant with our contemporary political turmoil. But these are not dourly pedagogic books. As Zipes says in the mission statement for his press, these are books that “celebrate the poetic power of fantasy and illustrate how writers and illustrators have used their art to generate hope in their readers.” Read more

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