Newbery winners 2022

It's everyone's favorite time of January, an otherwise boring month: the Newbery medal reveals! And this year is very special, as it's the 100th year of the Newbery medal, which started in 1922.

This year's Newbery medal winner is The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera. It also won the Pura Belpré award, which honors the best book by a Latinx author. The book follows Petra Peña, a girl who must flee with her family to a new world when Earth is destroyed by a comet.

The Newbery Honor books are Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocca, A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger, Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff, and Watercress by Andrea Wang, which also won the Caldecott medal this year for Jason Chin's illustrations. 

As for other awards, Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford and Floyd Cooper won the Coretta Scott King award for books by African Americans; Amina's Song by Hena Khan won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature; ¡Vamos! Let's Cross the Bridge by Raul the Third won the Pura Belpré award; Healer of the Water Monster by Bryant Young won the American Indian Library Association's Youth Literature Award; and Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff won the Stonewall Book Award for LGBTQIA+ in children's literature. Grace Lin, author of Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, won the Children's Literature Legacy Award for a lifetime of outstanding contributions to children's literature. 

Info from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/kidspost/2022/01/24/newbery-award-caldecott-award-2022/

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