ALA 2025 YOUTH MEDIA AWARDS ANNOUNCED

Erin Entrada Kelly’s The First State of Being (Greenwillow/HarperCollins) was named the 2025 Newbery Medal winner, announced on January 27th by the Association of Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association.
Several other awards and honors were also named, including the Caldecott Award for best illustrated children’s book. This year’s recipient is illustrator Rebecca Lee Kunz for Chooch Helped (Levine Querido), written by Andrea L. Rogers.
Please see all of the award and honor recipients here: American Library Association announces 2025 Youth Media Award winners | ALA.
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