Congratulations to our 2025 ALA Award Winners & Honorees

By Kaitlyn Spotts | January 29 2025 | ConferencesGeneralSpanish & Bilingual Books

The American Library Association (ALA) announced their 2025 literary award winners and honorees during LibLearnX: The Library Learning Experience. Below you can find a selection of Penguin Random House titles that were among the winners.

 

Explore the collection of award winners and honorees here.

 

Caldecott Honor

Home in a Lunchbox

Noodles on a Bicycle

 

Children’s Literature Legacy Award – Carole Boston Weatherford

A Negro League Scrapbook

All Rise: The Story of Ketanji Brown Jackson

Becoming Billie Holiday

Birmingham, 1963

Bridges Instead of Walls

Freedom on the Menu

Sidewalk Chalk

Standing in the Need of Prayer

The Faith of Elijah Cummings

Whirligigs

You Are My Pride

 

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor

Go Forth and Tell

Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem

 

Margaret A. Edwards Award

Santa in the City

Trick-or-Treating in the City

 

Newbery Honor

Across So Many Seas

A través de los mares 

Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All 

The Wrong Way Home

 

Odyssey Children’s Award

A Plate of Hope

Un plato de esperanza

 

Pura Belpré Author Medal

Lola

 

Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor

A Maleta Full of Treasures

Mi papá es un cowboy / My Daddy Is a Cowboy

 

Robert F. Sibert Medal Honor

Call Me Roberto!

 

Schneider Family Book Award Best Young Children’s Book Winner

A Little Like Magic

 

Schneider Family Book Award Best Young Children’s Book Honor

Monster Hands

 

Schneider Family Book Award Best Middle Grade Book Winner

Popcorn

 

Sydney Taylor Picture Book Honor

The Tree of Life

 

Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Honor

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