Vashti Harrison’s Big and Dave Eggers’ The Eyes and the Impossible took prime honors from the American Library Assocation.

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Vashti Harrison’s Big and Dave Eggers’ The Eyes and the Impossible took prime honors from the American Library Assocation.

Alfred A. Knopf/McSweeney’s and Little, Brown and Co.

The prime awards for youngsters’s literature in 2024 had been announced Monday on the American Library Association’s annual Youth Media Awards. Author Dave Eggers gained the John Newbery Medal, which is given to probably the most distinguished American youngsters’s e book revealed the earlier yr, for his center grade e book The Eyes and the Impossible, which was illustrated by Shawn Harris. Author and illustrator Vashti Harrison gained the Randolph Caldecott Medal for probably the most distinguished American image e book for youngsters, for her e book Big.

In an interview with All Things Considered final May, Eggers stated that writing from the voice of a stray canine, as he does in The Eyes and the Impossible, was “the most sort of liberating and joyful kind of writing I’ve ever done.”

Harrison, in her personal All Things Considered interview final May, stated that the impetus for Big, which follows somewhat lady rising up, was “to make a story that followed a child on a journey towards self-love.” Both The Eyes and the Impossible and Big had been additionally named as two of NPR’s Books We Love in 2023.

Harrison is the primary Black girl to win the Caldecott Medal; her e book Big was additionally awarded each Coretta Scott King creator and illustrator honors on Monday as nicely.

Five different Newbery honor books had been additionally named Monday: Eagle Drums, written and illustrated by Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson; Elf Dog and Owl Head, written by M.T. Anderson and illustrated by Junyi Wu; Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir, written and illustrated by Pedro Martín; Simon Sort of Says, written by Erin Bow; and The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams, written by Daniel Nayeri and illustrated by Daniel Miyares.

Four different books took Caldecott honors: In Every Life, illustrated and written by Marla Frazee; Jovita Wore Pants: The Story of a Mexican Freedom Fighter, illustrated by Molly Mendoza and written by Aida Salazar; There Was a Party for Langston, illustrated by Jerome Pumphrey and Jarrett Pumphrey, and written by Jason Reynolds; and The Truth About Dragons, illustrated by Hanna Cha, and written by Julie Leung.