Rebecca Kunz recently became the first ever Cherokee artist to be awarded the Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for her illustrations in Chooch Helped, a ...

The American Library Association rolled out awards for last year's most distinguished children's literature on Monday. Among ...

The Randolph Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the Association ... "The Caldecott Medal is the highest honor an American picture book illustrator can receive, and I am incredibly honored to be ...

The Randolph Caldecott ... s book, and Jonny Garza Villa’s “Canto Contigo” won the Stonewall award for young adult stories. Three Pura Belpré Awards for Latino writers and illustrators ...

Erin Entrada Kelly, author of “The First State of Being,” and Rebecca Lee Kunz, illustrator of “Chooch Helped,” are the 2025 recipients of the John Newbery and Randolph Caldecott Medals, the most ...

This year's Caldecott medal went to a book about an older sister frustrated when her baby brother "helps." The Newbery went to a middle-grade tale about a time traveler at the turn of the century.

Erin Entrada Kelly’s “The First State of Being,” a coming-of-age story that blends time travel and the approaching millennium of the year 2000, has won the John Newbery Medal for the year’s ...