ALA Awards: Celebrating the 2011 Winners!

It's a big day in the children's books world--this morning at their meeting in San Diego, the American Library Association announced the winners and honor recipients for their 2011 Youth Media Awards. In case you missed the online buzz (or even if you didn't), here's a handy rundown of all the winners of the big three--the majority of whom are members of SCBWI! (as noted below)

CALDECOTT
2011 Winner
A SICK DAY FOR AMOS McGEE
illustrated by Erin E. Stead, written by Philip C. Stead, a Neal Porter Book, published by Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing

2011 Honors
DAVE THE POTTER: ARTIST, POET SLAVE
illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Laban Carrick Hill, published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.

INTERRUPTING CHICKEN
written and illustrated by David Ezra Stein (SCBWI member), published by Candlewick Press


NEWBERY
2011 Winner
MOON OVER MANIFEST
by Clare Vanderpool (SCBWI member), published by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House Inc.

2011 Honors
DARK EMPEROR AND OTHER POEMS OF THE NIGHT
by Joyce Sidman (SCBWI member), illustrated by Rick Allen, published by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

HEARTH OF A SAMURAI
by Margi Preus (SCBWI member), published by Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS

ONE CRAZY SUMMER
by Rita Williams-Garcia published by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

TURTLE IN PARADISE
by Jennifer L. Holm (SCBWI member), published by Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House, Inc.


PRINTZ
2011 Winner
SHIP BREAKER
by Paolo Bacigalupi, published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.

2011 Honors
NOTHING
by Janne Teller (SCBWI member), published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division

PLEASE IGNORE VERA DIETZ
by A.S. King (SCBWI member), published by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

REVOLVER
by Marcus Sedgwick (SCBWI member), published by Roaring Brook Press, an imprint of the Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group

STOLEN
by Lucy Christopher, published by Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.


ALA announced a number of other awards as well--check out their website for a complete list, and make room on your reading list.

And congratulations to all the terrific authors and illustrators recognized for their excellence by ALA!