On January 26 at 7:45 a.m. MT, the American Library Association, in Denver, Colorado for the ALA Midwinter Meeting, will provide a free live Webcast of its annual awards ceremony honoring outstanding books and media for children and young adults The awards can also be twittered, with live updates given as award winners are announced. The RSS feed from the Youth Media Awards Twitter site can be followed on Facebook.

Awards include:

• Alex Awards honoring the best adult books that appeal to teens
• Coretta Scott King Book Awards honoring African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books for children and young adults that demonstrate sensitivity to “the African American experience via literature and illustration.”
• John Newbery Medal honoring the author of the year’s most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
• Laura Ingalls Wilder Award honoring an author or illustrator whose books have made a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.
• Margaret A. Edwards Award honoring an author’s lifetime contribution in writing for young adults as well as a specific body of his or her work.
• Michael L. Printz Award honoring excellence in literature written for young adults.
• Pura Belpré Award honoring Latino/Latina writers and illustrators whose work best portrays, affirms and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.
• Randolph Caldecott Medal honoring the illustrator of the year’s most distinguished American picture book for children.
• Robert F. Sibert Medal honoring an author, illustrator and/or photographer of the most distinguished informational book published for children.
• Schneider Family Book Award honoring books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience.
• Theodor Seuss Geisel Award honoring the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished book for beginning readers published in English in the United States.
• William C. Morris Award inaugurated in 2009, honoring a book published by a first-time author writing for teens.

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