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2025 ALA Youth Media Award Winners for Kids

The top books and audio books for children of 2025 as selected by divisions of the American Library Association (ALA) – including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery and Pura Belpré awards.

Chicago Public Library

59 items

  • Pura Belpré Youth Illustration Honor
    BookNew York : Roaring Brook Press, 2024. — FIC WILLIAMS
  • Newbery Honor, Sydney Taylor Book Award Middle Grade Honor
    BookNew York : Nancy Paulsen Books, 2024. — FIC BEHAR
  • Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Picture Book Winner
    BookBrooklyn : Red Comet Press, [2024] — FIC GEORGE
  • Amazing Abe

    How Abraham Cahan's Newspaper Gave a Voice to Jewish Immigrants

    Finkelstein, Norman H.,
    Sydney Taylor Book Award Picture Book Honor
    BookNew York : Holiday House, 2024. — PN4874.C214F56 2024
  • Coretta Scott King Author Honor
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024. — FIC ALEXANDE
  • Call Me Roberto!

    Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos /

    Alonso, Nathalie,
    Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal Honor
    BookNew York : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers, [2024] — GV865.C45A46 2024
  • Caldecott Winner
    BookHoboken, NJ : Levine Querido, 2024. — FIC ROGERS
  • Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Children's Honor Book
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — FIC KAHAKAUW
  • Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Children's Winner
    PaperbackNew York : First Second, 2024. — CT275.M5463A3 2024
  • Coretta

    the Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King

    King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006,
    Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
    BookNew York : Godwin Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2024. — E185.97.K47A3 2024
  • Pura Belpré Youth Illustration Winner
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024. — FIC VERDAD
  • The Enigma Girls

    How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II

    Fleming, Candace,
    Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal Honor
    BookNew York : Scholastic Focus, 2024. — D810.C88F54 2024
  • Sydney Taylor Book Award Picture Book Winner
    BookMinneapolis, MN : Kar-Ben Publishing, [2024] — FIC OLITZKY
  • Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem

    the Vision of Photographer Roy DeCarava

    Golio, Gary,
    Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
    BookNew York : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers, [2024] — TR140.D43G65 2024
  • Newbery Winner
    BookNew York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — FIC KELLY
  • Stonewall Book Award Honor
    BookNew York : Feiwel & Friends, 2024. — FIC EDGMON
  • Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Honor
    PaperbackNew York, NY : Balzer & Bray, [2024] — FIC TABOR
  • The Girl Who Sang

    a Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival /

    Nadel, Estelle,
    Sydney Taylor Book Award Middle Grade Winner, Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal Honor
    BookNew York : Roaring Brook Press , 2024. — D804.48.N33 2024