The American Library Association (ALA) 2010 awards, which include the Newbery and the Caldecott, are out. If you are looking for something new and exciting in children's literature, this is a great place to begin your search.
The glowing reviews I've read for Rebecca Stead's When You Reach Me, which takes off from A Wrinkle in Time, have really piqued my curiosity. Add to that the fact that it has already had a good run on bestseller lists. It's turning into a must-read for me. All of the Honor books appear particularly strong this year as well, with Grace Lin and Rodman Philbrick, both of whose previous work is great, represented.
Jerry Pinkney's fabulous interpretation of Aesop's fable, The Lion and the Mouse, took the Caldecott Award this year. Saying this imaginative and nearly wordless creation is for four to eight-year-olds is unnecessarily limiting. It's one for everyone to enjoy.
I'm also familiar with the Sibert Honor winner by Brian Floca, Moonshot, and Art Spiegelman's publishing foray for children's comics, Toon Books, which won the Geisel. I recommend both. I was utterly amazed by the Alex Award winner, the incredible Stitches by David Small.
And it's wonderful to see some great authors getting recognition for their great catalogs: the May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award to Lois Lowry, the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults to Jim Murphy, and the first-ever Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement to Walter Dean Myers.
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