Weekly Wrap-Up: January 19-25, 2020

Here's a recap of my posts from this week, along with my weekly collection of news, announcements, and booklists I've found while browsing around the internet. Hope you enjoy! :)


Here @ PPBN

• nothing this week :(  It's been an unexpectedly busy start to the year for me!

Awards

• 2020 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books winners announced - the awards recognize "outstanding science writing and illustration for children and young adults" (source) and is intended to "encourage the writing and publishing of high-quality science books for all age groups" (source). The award includes Children's Science Picture Book, Middle Grades Science Book, Young Adult Science Book, and Hands-On Science Book categories.
• 2020 Bank Street Center for Children’s Literature Best Spanish Language Picture Book Award winners announced - the award is intended to "help parents, teachers and librarians choose books that children will find captivating and transforming" (source) and to "encourage more publishers to create high quality materials in Spanish for children" (source).
• 2020 Charlotte Zolotow Award winner announced - the award recognizes the "best picture book text published in the United States in the preceding year" (source).
• 2020 Dolly Gray Children’s Literature Award winner announced - the award recognizes "high quality fictional and biographical children, intermediate, and young adult books that authentically portray individuals with developmental disabilities, such as autism spectrum disorders, intellectual disabilities, and Down syndrome" (source).
• 2020 Edgar Awards nominees announced - the awards recognize books in the "mystery, crime, suspense, and intrigue fields" (source). The award includes Best Juvenile Mystery and Best Young Adult Mystery categories.
• 2020 Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Golden Kite Award and Sid Fleischman Award winners announced - the Golden Kite Award recognizes "excellence in children’s literatures" (source) and the Sid Fleischman Award recognizes "excellence of writing in the genre of humor" (source).
• I missed this one last week but the 2019 Lee & Low New Voices Award winner was announced - the award recognizes "a children’s picture book manuscript by a writer of color or Native/Indigenous writer" (source).
• 2020 Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature winners announced - the awards are intended to "honor and celebrate diverse books written by diverse authors" (source) and recognize books which "feature diverse main characters and address diversity in a meaningful way" (source). The award includes a Teen Category and a Younger Readers Category.

Booklists

• 100 Scope Notes's That’s So Meta! Recent Metafictional Books.
• Book Riot's Lunar New Year Children’s Books for Every Family and 5 YA Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novels That Tackle Climate Change.
  
• Brightly's 9 Picture Books to Celebrate Lunar New Year.
  
• The Children's Book Review's The Best Picture Books of 2019 and The Best Board Books of 2019.
  
• Epic Read's 29 Completed Book Series to Binge Guaranteed to Keep You Reading.
  
• A Mighty Girl's Making an Impact: 35 Mighty Girl Books About Charity and Community Service and She Can Build It! Books, Building Toys, and Tool Sets to Encourage DIY-Loving Mighty Girls.
  
• We Need Diverse Books's 5 YA Titles Featuring Characters With Physical Disabilities.
  
• YALSA's 2020 Best Fiction for Young Adults.
  

New & Upcoming Books

• BookPage's 2020 Previews: Most anticipated YA, Most anticipated YA debuts, Most anticipated YA sequels and series titles, and Most anticipated children’s books.
  
• Entertainment Weekly's excerpts of Nancy Drew The Curse by Micol Ostow and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins.
  
• Epic Read's The 21 Most Anticipated YA Books to Read in February and excerpt from Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland.
  
• A Fuse #8 Production's cover reveal and excerpt for Everything Sad Is Untrue (a true story) by Daniel Nayeri.
  
• Good Comics for Kids's This Week’s Comics: Girls on the Run.
  
• Goodreads's excerpt from This Is My America by Kim Johnson.
  
• Paste Magazine's cover reveals and excerpts for The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and The Silvered Serpents by Roshani Chokshi.
  
• Publishers Weekly's New Kids' and YA Books: Week of January 27, 2020.
  
• Teen Librarian Toolbox's New Books Alert: A Mars mission, art school, a portal fantasy, and more!.