The Newbery and Caldecott Awards: A Guide to the Medal and Honor Books, 2017 Edition

Updated with the 2017 award and honor books, this perennial favorite gathers together the books deemed most distinguished in American children's literature and illustration since the inception of the renowned prizes. Librarians and teachers everywhere rely on this guidebook for quick reference and collection development and also as a resource for curriculum links and readers' advisory. With an easy-to-use streamlined look and format, the 2017 guide features: a new interview with four-time Caldecott winner Bryan Collier explanations of criteria used to select the winners; and updated bibliographic citations and indexes for the award winners. This resource for locating information about the best in children's books is valuable for every collection.

For more than eight decades, librarians from the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) have intensely scrutinized the children's books published each year, selecting the winning and honor books for the Newbery and Caldecott Awards. In addition, the ALSC division of the ALA is committed to creating a nation of readers, starting with the youngest. ALSC supports all those providing library services to children, including youth librarians, teachers, families, literature experts, publishers, and child advocates.