Resources for Award-winning Books and Authors of 2019

Get to know the latest award-winning books with exclusive primary source recordings that introduce students to authentic writing and research processes. Ready-to-use instructional materials are also available.

Beyond the 15 awards featured below, explore resources for all of the recent award winners from the United States and Canada.

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Listen to Meg Medina, 2019 Newbery Medal Winner and honoree of two other notable recognitions

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Listen to Meg Medina, 2019 Newbery Medal Winner and honoree of two other notable recognitions

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Listen to Meg Medina, 2019 Newbery Medal Winner and honoree of two other notable recognitions

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Listen to Meg Medina, 2019 Newbery Medal Winner and honoree of two other notable recognitions

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Listen to Meg Medina, 2019 Newbery Medal Winner and honoree of two other notable recognitions

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Listen to Meg Medina, 2019 Newbery Medal Winner and honoree of two other notable recognitions

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Listen to Sophie Blackall, 2019 Caldecott Medal Winner

Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall

Listen to Sophie Blackall discuss Hello Lighthouse (Little, Brown)

All Caldecott Medal resources

Listen to Claire Hartfield, 2019 Coretta Scott King Book Award Winner

A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 by Claire Hartfield

Listen to Claire Hartfield discuss A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 (Clarion)

All Coretta Scott King Book Award resources

Enjoy The Poet X, winner of the Printz Award, Pura Belpré Award, Walter Dean Myers Award, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and others

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Enjoy a vocabulary list for The Poet X (HarperCollins)

All Printz Award resources
All Walter Dean Myers Award resources
All National Book Award resources
All Boston Globe-Horn Book Award resources
All Pura Belpré Award resources

Listen to Oge Mora, 2019 Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Book Award New Talent Winner

Thank You, Omu! by Oge Mora

Listen to Oge Mora discuss Thank You, Omu! (Little, Brown)

All Caldecott Medal resources
All Coretta Scott King Book Award resources

Listen to Joyce Sidman, 2019 Sibert Book Award Winner

The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science by Joyce Sidman

Listen to Joyce Sidman discuss The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

All Sibert Informational Book Award resources

Listen to Yuyi Morales, 2019 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award and Tomás Rivera Book Award Winner

Dreamers by Yuyi Morales

Listen to Yuyi Morales discuss discuss the backstory for Dreamers (Holiday House)

All Pura Belpré Award resources
All Tomás Rivera Book Award resources

Listen to Jessica Love, 2019 Stonewall Award Winner

Julián is a Mermaid by Jessica Love

Listen to Jessica Love discuss Julián is a Mermaid (Candlewick)

All Stonewall Book Award resources

Listen to Minh Lê and Dan Santat, 2019 Asian/Pacific American Award Winners and Charlotte Huck Honorees

Drawn Together by Minh Lê and Dan Santat

Listen to Minh Lê and Dan Santat discuss Drawn Together (Disney-Hyperion)

All Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature resources
All Charlotte Huck Award resources
All Junior Library Guild resources

Listen to Adib Khorram, winner of the 2018 Morris Award and the Asian/Pacific American Award

Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram

Listen to Adib Khorram introduce and read from Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Penguin/Random House)

All Morris Award resources
All Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature resources
All Kirkus Prize for Young Readers' Literature Award resources

Enjoy connecting to Rescue & Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship, 2019 Schneider Family Book Award Winner

Rescue & Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship by Jessica Kensky, Patrick Downes, and Scott Magoon

Watch this video book trailer starring the authors and star of Rescue & Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship (Candlewick Press)

All Schneider Family Book Award resources

Listen to Zeke Peña, 2018 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner

Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide by Zeke Peña

Listen to Zeke Peña discuss Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide (Getty Publications)

All Boston Globe-Horn Book Award resources

Listen to Sandra Neil Wallace, 2019 Orbis Pictus Award Winner

Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football Field to the Art Gallery by Sandra Neil Wallace

Listen to Sandra Neil Wallace discuss Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football Field to the Art Gallery (Simon & Schuster)

All Orbis Pictus Award resources

Listen to Jonathan Auxier, 2018 winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, the Sydney Taylor Book Award, and the Charlotte Huck Award

Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster by Jonathan Auxier

Listen to Jonathan Auxier discuss Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster (Penguin Random House Canada)

All Governor General's Literary Award resources
All Sydney Taylor Award resources
All Charlotte Huck Award resources

Listen to Joanne Schwartz and Sydney Smith, 2018 TD Canadian Children's Literature Award Winnners

Town Is by the Sea by Joanne Schwartz and Sydney Smith

Listen to Joanne Schwartz and Sydney Smith discuss Town Is by the Sea (Groundwood Books)

All TD Canadian Children's Literature resources
All Boston Globe-Horn Book Award resources
All Governor General's Literary Award resources

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