MORE LITERARY AWARDS FROM ALA MIDWINTER, PART 2

Several more awards were announced at ALA's recent January Midwinter Meeting:

The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award (for a distinguished informational book for children)
Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley by Sally M. Walker (J 973.757 WAL)
Honor Book
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (J 943.086 BAR)

The Mildred L. Batchelder Award (given to an American publisher for a book translated into English from a book originally written in a foreign language)
An Innocent Soldier by Josef Holub; translated by Michael Hofmann (NEW YA HOL) [Arthur A. Levine Books]
Honor Books
Nicholas by Rene Goscinny & Jean-Jacques Sempe; translated by Anthea Bell (NEW J GOS) [Phaidon Press Limited]
When I Was a Soldier: A Memoir by Valérie Zenatti; translated by Adriana Hunter (NEW YA 956.9405 ZEN) [Bloomsbury Children's Books]

The May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award ("an author, critic, librarian, historian, or teacher of children's literature, of any country, who shall prepare a paper considered to be a significant contribution to the field of children's literature"; the lecture is given in April of the following year)
Kevin Henkes, author and illustrator

The Margaret A. Edwards Award (for a lifetime achievement in young adult literature)
Jacqueline Woodson

The Alex Awards (10 books written for adults that appeal to children from ages 12 through 18)
Midnight at the Dragon Cafe by Judy Fong Bates
Upstate by Kalisha Buckhanon
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (NEW GAI)
As Simple as Snow by Gregory Galloway (GAL)
Never Let Me Go by Kauzo Ishiguro (ISH)
Gil's All Fright Diner by A. Lee Martinez (MAR)
The Necessary Beggar by Susan Palwick (NEW PAL)
My Jim by Nancy Rawles (RAW)
Jesus Land: A Memoir by Julia Scheeres (NEW 373.7293 SCH)
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls (362.2923 WAL)

The (Andrew) Carnegie Award (for a distinguished children's video)
“The Man Who Walked Between the Towers”