And the winners are....

For a list of all the winners and honorees of this year's ALA Midwinter conference, please click here!


You're welcome. Looks like we all have quite a wonderful must-read list for the rest of the winter.


Congratulations to all!

Live streaming of Newbery/Caldecott ceremony

On Monday, February 2, there will be quite a lot of news coming out of the annual ALA mid-winter convention in Chicago. The announcement of the 2015 Youth Media Awards will take place at 8am Central time/6am Pacific.

This is the day the world finds out what books and authors and illustrators have won the highest awards for children's literature: the Newbery, Caldecott, Printz, and Coretta Scott King Awards.


To follow along with the live streaming of the ALA Youth Media Awards, please click here.

2009 Printz Award speech

This one's by Melina Marchetta, who won for JELLICOE ROAD. Confession (which will make sense when you watch the video): I did not make it past page 31 in this book, so maybe it's time to give it another try.

Terry Pratchett, a Printz among us

Here's Pratchett's Printz speech (be sure to watch the part where he tells what he's making in the cauldron):