Weekly Wrap-Up: January 5-11, 2020

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


Here @ PPBN

• { 52WRR }: Review of Ojiichan's Gift by Chieri Uegaki - My first review for my new weekly feature, { 52 Weeks of Recommended Reading }, where I'm reading one book every week that has won an award (or is an honor book) or has been included on a list of great books.

Awards

• 2019 Costa Book Awards winners announced - the award includes a Children's category and is "one of the UK's most prestigious and popular book prizes and celebrates the most enjoyable books of the year by writers resident in the UK and Ireland" (source).
• 2019 Epic Reads Book Shimmy Awards winners announced - the awards recognize the "best and most feels-inducing YA books the year" (source) and include 20 categories such as Cover Lust, We Need Diverse Books, and Squad Goals.

Booklists

• Book Riot's 10 Powerful Graphic Memoirs for Young Readers.
• The Children's Book Review's 5 Yoga and Mindfulness Books for Starting the Year With a Clear Mind.
  
• Epic Read's 25 Breathtaking Books That Prove Poetry is For Everyone, and 14 YA Books Guaranteed to Make You Ugly Cry.
  
• National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)'s 2020 Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels list announced.
  
• School Library Journal's Read the Signs: Middle Grade Fiction Centering the Deaf Experience.
  
• YALSA's 2020 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults and Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers lists announced.
  

New & Upcoming Books

• Baby Librarians's 2020 Children’s Board Books From The First Half Of The Year.
  
• Book Riot's Winter 2020 YA previews: 175+ January–March New Releases To TBR and YA Graphic Novels, Memoirs, and Comics. Plus, 50+ YA Books Starring Queer Girls Hitting Shelves in 2020
  
• Entertainment Weekly's preview of The Ravens by Kass Morgan and Danielle Paige.
  
• Epic Read's book trailer for Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen.
  
• Good Comics for Kids's This Week’s Comics: Using Your Noodle.
  
• Paste Magazine's The Best Young Adult Novels of January 2020.
  
• Publishers Weekly's New Kids' and YA Books: Week of January 13, 2020, plus Noteworthy Picture Book Sequels: January 2020 .
  
• She Reads's 18 Must-read YA books of 2020.