Weekly Wrap-Up: January 26-February 15, 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! :)
** (I missed a few recap posts, so here's 3 weeks worth of goodies! I'm sure I've missed a bunch - if you know of anything, please leave me a comment and I'll add it in!) **



Here @ PPBN

• #ReadYourWorld: Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2020! - My post for MCBD 2020!
  
• MCBD 2020 Book Review: Spirit of the Indian Warrior - My book review for MCBD 2020!
• Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge 2020 - My join-up post for this year's Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge, hosted by Alyson Beecher at Kid Lit Frenzy!
• Review: The Bat Book by Charlotte Milner - My first review for the Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge 2020!

Awards

• 2020 American Library Association (ALA) Youth Media Awards winners announced - the awards announced include (in the order provided in the press release) the Newbery Medal, Caldecott Medal, Coretta Scott King Book Awards, Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, Schneider Family Book Award, Alex Awards, Mildred L. Batchelder Award, Odyssey Award, Pura Belpré Award, Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, Stonewall Book Awards (including the Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children's and Young Adult Literature Award), Theodor Seuss Geisel Award, William C. Morris YA Debut Award, YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults, Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, Sydney Taylor Book Award, and American Indian Youth Literature Award.
  
• 2020 Audie Awards finalists announced - the awards "honors the best titles in audio publishing" (source) and include categories for Middle Grade, Young Adult, and Young Listeners (Up to Age 8).
• 2020 Bookbug Picture Book Prize winner announced - the award recognizes the "best new Scottish childrens' books, and children across Scotland can vote for their favourite" (source).
• 2020 Cook Prize finalists announced - the award recognizes the "best Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) picture book for 8–10 year olds" and is the "only national children’s choice award honoring a STEM title" (source).
• 2019 Cybils Awards winners announced - the awards recognize "children’s and young adult authors and illustrators whose books combine the highest literary merit and popular appeal" (source) and are judged by bloggers who focus on children's or young adult lit.
• 2020 Gryphon Award winners announced - the award recognizes an "English language work of fiction or non-fiction for which the primary audience is children in Kindergarten through Grade 4" which "best exemplifies those qualities that successfully bridge the gap in difficulty between books for reading aloud to children and books for practiced readers" (source).
• 2020 In the Margins Book Award winners and Top Ten list announced - the awards are intended to "seek out and highlight fiction and non-fiction titles of high-interest appeal for male or female readers, ages 9-21" featuring "BIPOC youth, youth from a street culture, youth in restrictive custody, youth who are reluctant readers" (source).
• 2020 INSPY Awards longlist announced - the awards are intended to "discover and highlight the very best in literature that grapples with expressions of the Christian faith" (source). The award is "judged by book bloggers" (source) and includes a Literature for Young Adults category.
• 2020 Irma S. and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature finalists announced - the award recognizes an "outstanding book for young children — a book in which text and illustrations are inseparable, each enhancing and enlarging on the other to produce a singular whole" (source). For this award, "children are the final judges of the winning book" (source).
• 2020-2021 Triple Crown Awards nominees announced - the awards are intended for "encouraging elementary and junior high students to read wholesome and uplifting books" (source).

Booklists

• American Library Association (ALA)'s 2020 Rainbow Book List.
  
• Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)'s 2020 Notable Children's Books.
  
• Children's Book Council (CBC)/National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)'s 2020 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People.
  
• The Children's Book Review's The Best Kids Chapter Books and Novels of 2019 and The Best Young Adult Books of 2019.
  
• Children's Literature & Reading Special Interest Group (CL/R SIG)'s 2020 Notable Books for a Global Society.
  
• Rise: A Feminist Book Project's 2020 Book List and 2020 Top Ten List (formerly known as the Amelia Bloomer Project).
  

Articles

• School Library Journal's Schools, Libraries Celebrate World Read Aloud Day 2020.
  

New & Upcoming Books

• Booklist's Spring Youth Preview 2020 and Spring Audiobook Preview 2020, featuring Youth Fiction and Nonfiction selections.
  
• Brightly's The Best Children’s and YA Books of February 2020.
  
• Goodreads's The Best Young Adult Books of February.
  
• Good Comics for Kids's This Week’s Comics: Snapping Suns, This Week’s Comics: I Survived Fatcat, and This Week’s Comics: Noisemaking Leaders.
  
• Publishers Weekly's New Kids' and YA Books: Week of February 3, 2020, Week of February 10, 2020, and Week of February 17, 2020. Also, Noteworthy Picture Book Sequels: February 2020 and Noteworthy Novel Sequels: February 2020, plus The Most Anticipated Children's and YA Books of Spring 2020.

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