Named after an 18th-century English bookseller named John Newbery, it became the first children’s book award in the world. Throughout the past century, the ALA has bestowed the honor on timeless ...

has won the John Newbery Medal for the year's outstanding children's book. The Randolph Caldecott Medal for best picture story went to “Chooch Helped,” a tale of Cherokee siblings illustrated ...

This feat represents Erin Entrada Kelly's second Newbery Medal win. She previously won the honor for the first time in 2018 with her book, Hello, Universe. While the Newbery Medal is perhaps the ...

Matt de la Peña is the author of Last Stop on Market Street, for which he won the Newbery Medal, and several other picture books and YA novels. Loren Long is the author and illustrator of the ...

Once again, Birmingham middle school students will participate in the “Birbery,” Birmingham’s take on the Newbery award. This annual reading challenge has been a Birmingham tradition since 2011 and ...