Junior Library Guild Book Selections Win 27 Awards
Drum roll please! JLG is proud to announce that books selected by our editorial team in
2012 won 27 awards at the ALA Midwinter Meeting. In fact, JLG books won the
following awards:
• The Caldecott Medal Winner and three Caldecott Honor Books
• Three Newbery Medal Honor Books
• A Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book
• The Robert F. Sibert Medal Award and two Honor Books
• One Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book
• The Pura Belpré Award for Text
• The Michael L. Printz Award and one Honor Book
• The YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Winner and all four finalists
• The William C. Morris Award Winner and one finalist
• All three Coretta Scott King Honor Books, Illustrator and one Honor Book, Author
• The Winner of the Stonewall Award
You can count on our outstanding editorial team to make sure you have the very best new
titles on your shelves—before they win awards. Having these exceptional books in your
library is just one of the advantages JLG membership offers you. And now is a great time
to order extra copies at low, JLG members-only prices.
To order additional copies of award winners log in to your account at
juniorlibraryguild.com or call customer service at 800.743.4070.
The complete list of our winning selections from 2012 appears below.
You can also click here to see our Spring 2013 forthcoming titles, which are sure to be
next year’s award winners.
Newbery Medal
• Splendors and Glooms, Honor (selected April 2012 / JLG date November 2012)
• Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon, Honor
(selected May 2012 / JLG date October 2012)
• Three Times Lucky, Honor (selected January 2012 / JLG date June 2012)
Caldecott Medal
• This Is Not My Hat, Winner (selected April 2012 / JLG date December 2012)
• Creepy Carrots!, Honor (selected November 2011 / JLG date September 2012)
• Extra Yarn, Honor (selected August 2011 / April 2012)
• One Cool Friend, Honor (selected August 2011 / April 2012)
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award
• Rabbit and Robot: The Sleepover, Honor (selected March 2012 / JLG date January
2013)
Robert F. Sibert Medal
• Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon, Winner
(selected May 2012 / JLG date October 2012)
• Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, Honor (selected January
2012 / JLG date October 2012)
• Titanic: Voices from the Disaster, Honor (selected November 2012 / JLG date April
2012)
Mildred L. Batchelder Award
• A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return, Honor (selected April 2012 / JLG
date November 2012)
Pura Belpré Award
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Winner, Text (selected
January 2012 / JLG date July 2012)
Michael L. Printz Award
• In Darkness, Winner (selected July 2011 / JLG date April 2012)
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Honor (selected January
2012 / JLG date July 2012)
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction
• Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon, Winner
(selected May 2012 / JLG date October 2012)
• Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different, Finalist (selected December 2011 / JLG
date April 2012)
• Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, Finalist (selected January
2012 / JLG date October 2012)
• Titanic: Voices from the Disaster, Finalist (selected November 2012 / JLG date April
2012
• We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March, Finalist (selected January
2012 / JLG date July 2012)
William C. Morris Award
• Seraphina, Winner (selected May 2012 / JLG date November 2012)
• After the Snow, Finalist (selected January 2012 / JLG date June 2012)
Coretta Scott King Award
• H.O.R.S.E.: A Game of Basketball and Imagination, Illustrator, Honor (selected May
2012 / JLG date February 2013)
• Ellen’s Broom, Illustrator, Honor (selected August 2011 / JLG date February 2012
• I Have a Dream, Illustrator, Honor (selected April 2012 / JLG date December 2012)
• Each Kindness, Author, Honor (selected April 2012 / JLG date / February 2013)
Stonewall Award
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Winner (selected January
2012 / JLG date July 2012)
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