Listening Library is proud to celebrate this year’s ALA award winners on audiobook. Winners were announced Monday, January 11 in Boston, MA at the ALA Midwinter Meeting. Share these outstanding listens with your young patrons.
Odyssey Award Winner
The Odyssey Award recognizes the best audiobooks produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States.
by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Read by Jayne Entwistle
John Newbery Honor
The John Newbery Medal recognizes the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature.
by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Read by Jayne Entwistle
Printz Honor
The Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature annually honors the best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit, each year.
by Ashley Hope Pérez
Read by Benita Robledo and Lincoln Hoppe
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The Schneider Family Book Awards honor authors or illustrators for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.
by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Read by Kathleen McInerney
by Teresa Toten
Read by Johnathan McClain
by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Read by Jayne Entwistle
William C. Morris Finalist
The William C. Morris Award recognizes a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens.
Read by Michael Crouch
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Winner
Read by Ray Porter
Alex Awards
The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18. The award is sponsored by the Margaret A. Edwards Trust.
Read by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Read by Julia Whelan
2016 Margaret A. Edwards Award Winner
David Levithan is the recipient of the 2016 Margaret A. Edwards Award honoring his significant and lasting contribution to writing for teens for The Realm of Possibility, Boy Meets Boy, Love is the Higher Law, How They Met, and Other Stories, Wide Awake, and Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist.
Read by Emily Janice Card & Kirby Heyborne
Coretta Scott King/Virginia Hamilton Award Winner: Jerry Pinkney
The Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement is named in memory of beloved children’s author Virginia Hamilton. The annual award is presented in even years to an African American author, illustrator or author/illustrator for a body of his or her published books for children and/or young adults, and who has made a significant and lasting literary contribution.
Read by Jeff Daniels
Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
Laura Ingalls Wilder Award: Jerry Pinkney
The Wilder Award honors an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made, over a period of years, a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.
Read by Jeff Daniels
Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award Winner: Jacqueline Woodson
The May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture is an annual event featuring an author, critic, librarian, historian or teacher of children’s literature, of any country, who shall prepare a paper considered to be a significant contribution to the field of children’s literature.
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