Newbery & Caldecott Winners 2024

Celebrating excellence in literature for children and young adults, The American Library Association announced the winners of the Youth Media Awards at its LibLearnX conference in Baltimore in January. Top honors went to Dave Eggers's middle grade novel The Eyes and the Impossible, a story of friendship and adventure starring a free dog living in an urban park, which received the Newbery Medal and Big written and illustrated by Vashti Harrison about a little girl's journey to acceptance and self-love which took home the Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished picture book of the year.