This Week in the Library: Award Winners

This week in the library, we'll be talking about some recent award winners, including the winners of the Caldecott and Newbery awards, as well as the winner of the Texas Bluebonnet award.

Check out the winners in the slideshow below:

Video of the Week: 2013 Texas Bluebonnet Winner

Last week, the results of the Texas Bluebonnet Award Vote were announced.  To find out which book won, watch the video below:

Video of the Week

I've got TWO great videos for you this week!  They are book trailers for two of the big award winners that were announced Monday!

The first is the trailer for Caldecott Medal winner This Is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen:






And the second is the trailer for the Newbery Medal winner The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate:



Check out all of this year's award winners by clicking here!

It's Awards Season...

...and, no, I'm not talking about the Golden Globes, the Oscars, or the Grammys!  It's book award season!

At the end of this month, three BIG book awards will be decided: the Newbery Medal, the Caldecott Medal, and the Bluebonnet Award Winner.  As we get ready for the big announcements, we'll be booktalking and reading some previous award winners throughout the month.

To find out more about the Newbery or Caldecott awards, watch this video

and be sure to visit the ALA Youth Media Awards website.

To find out more about this year's Bluebonnet nominees, click the link below.

If you're interested in reading this year's Bluebonnet nominees, or if you'd like to read some past Newbery or Caldecott winners, check out the special resource lists available in our online catalog.

And the Winners Are...

Yesterday, the ALA Youth Media Awards were announced! Included in these awards were the Newbery, which is the award for the best chapter book of the year, and the Caldecott, which is the award for the best picture book of the year.

Here are the winners! (Click on the book cover to read more about each one!)

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Newbery Honor Books:

Newbery Winner:

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Caldecott Honor Books:

Caldecott Winner:

This Week in the Library...

Award Winners!

Since this year's Newbery and Caldecott Winners will be announced soon, we're celebrating award winning books in the library this week!

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3rd Grade will be listening to Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein, which was one of last year's Caldecott Honor books.

Click here to see a complete list of Caldecott Winners and Honor books dating back to 1938!

Or, watch this video to see every Caldecott Winner from 1938-2010!


And here's a great book trailer for Interrupting Chicken!

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4th Grade will be hearing a book talk over Christopher Paul Curtis's Bud, Not Buddy, the 2000 Newbery winner.

Here's a list of all the Newbery winners and Honor books from 1922 to present.

And here's a great video presentation about the book and its author:

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5th Grade will be hearing a book talk over Holes, by Louis Sachar, which was the Newbery winner in 1999.

Here's a trailer from the Disney movie based on the book: