Jan 27, 2025 · PHOENIX — 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 prestigious awards in children’s literature. Kelly and Kunz were among the award winners announced today by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of ...

Jan 27, 2025 · Erin Entrada Kelly won her second John Newbery Medal, receiving the 2025 award for her middle grade novel The First State of Being. It is the second Newbery win for Kelly, whose Hello, Universe won the medal in 2018. She also earned …

Jan 27, 2025 · Top honors went to The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly, a middle grade speculative fiction novel set in the months leading up to Y2K, which received the Newbery Medal and Chooch Helped, illustrated by Rebecca Lee Kunz and written by Andrea L. Rogers, about two Cherokee siblings learning new things, including patience, which garnered ...

Jan 27, 2025 · Erin Entrada Kelly wanted to write a love letter to one of her all-time favorite books—2010 Newbery Medal winner When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead. The result, Kelly's middle grade novel The First State of Being, just won the 2025 Newbery Medal. She becomes the seventh two-time Newbery winner.

Jan 27, 2025 · 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 outstanding children’s book.

Jan 27, 2025 · The First State of Being, by Erin Entrada Kelly, takes place in 1999. It's about a young kid named Michael Rosario, fretting about the turn of the century, when he meets a time traveler from...

Jan 27, 2025 · The ALA Youth Media Awards were announced at LibLearnX in Phoenix, AZ, on Monday. Here are the winners on children's literature's biggest day. John Newbery Medal Honors author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly . Randolph Caldecott Medal

Erin Entrada Kelly is a two-time Newbery Medalist and National Book Award Finalist whose work has been translated into more than dozen languages. She is a New York Times- bestselling author and teaches in the Master's Program in Writing for Children and Young Adults at …

Jan 27, 2025 · The book is written by Erin Frankel, illustrated by Paola Escobar, and narrated by Luis Carlos de La Lombana. How the Boogeyman Became a Poet, produced by Abigail Marks for HarperAudio, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, is the 2025 Odyssey Award winner for young adults. The book is written and narrated by Tony Keith Jr.

Jan 27, 2025 · NEW YORK (AP) — 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 outstanding children's book. ... The awards were announced Monday by the American Library Association, which has gathered in Phoenix ...