ALA’s Youth Media Awards Announced | Book Pulse

ALA announced the winners of the Youth Media Awards on Monday; Erin Entrada Kelly wins the Newbery Medal for The First State of Being, and Rebecca Lee Kunz wins the Caldecott Medal for Chooch Helped, written by Andrea L. Rogers. Interviews arrive with Bill Gates, Michael Connelly, Lola Kirke, and Mike Miley. Elle asks 21 influencers for their predictions on the the future of book publishing. Plus, Mel Robbins, author of The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About, announces a new tour.

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Awards & News

ALA announced the winners of the Youth Media Awards on Monday. SLJ has full coverage and reviews. NPR also has coverage, along with Publishers Weekly. Watch the announcement here.

Erin Entrada Kelly wins the Newbery Medal for The First State of Being (Greenwillow), and Rebecca Lee Kunz wins the Caldecott Medal for Chooch Helped, written by Andrea L. Rogers (Levine Querido). Shelf Awareness has an interview with the Newbery winner.

Bookshop.org adds a new ebook platform that will allow bookstores to sell digital books to consumers, NYT reports. USA Today also has coverage, as does Shelf Awareness.

Reviews

NYT reviews The Killing Fields of East New York: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood by Stacy Horn (Gillian Flynn: Zando): The Killing Fields of East New York is a compelling reminder of the catastrophic consequences of white-collar crime. It should serve as an inspiration for up-and-coming prosecutors.” Plus, there are short reviews of four new historical fiction books: To Save the Man by John Sayles (Melville House), The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter: The Continuing Adventures of Judith Shakespeare by Grace Tiffany (Harper), Babylonia by Costanza Casati (Sourcebooks Landmark), and What We Tried To Bury Grows Here by Julian Zabalbeascoa (Two Dollar Radio).

Briefly Noted

LitHub highlights 27 new books for the week.

ElectricLit has “7 Books Where Real Estate Drives the Plot.”

CBC shares “10 Canadian books turning 25 in 2025.”

BookRiot previews books in translation publishing in 2025.

At People, Michael Connelly previews his forthcoming book, Nightshade (Little, Brown), due out May 25.

Elle asks 21 influencers for their predictions about the the future of book publishing.

WSJ has a wide-ranging interview with Bill Gates, whose new memoir, Source Code: My Beginnings (Knopf), publishes next week.

LA Times chats with Lola Kirke about her new memoir, Wild West Village: Not a Memoir (Unless I Win an Oscar, Die Tragically, or Score a Country #1) (S. & S.).

Vogue talks with Mike Miley about his new book, David Lynch’s American Dreamscape: Music, Literature, Cinema (Bloomsbury Academic), and the “long cultural shadow cast by Twin Peaks.”

Annelise Ryan, Beast of the North Woods (Berkley), explains why readers love murder mysteries at Crime Reads.

People previews Arundhati Roy’s forthcoming memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me (Scribner), due out September 2.

CBC explores the Japanese and Korean cozy fiction trend.

Authors on Air

Imani Perry discusses her new book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People (Ecco), on B&N’s Poured Over podcast.

Mel Robbins, author of The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About (Hay House), announces a new tour on GMA.

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