Monday morning, January 25th, saw the first virtual announcements of the Youth Media Awards, and some Booking Biz authors made their presence known!
Carole Boston Weatherford claimed a Newbery Honor Award for BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom, illustrated by Michele Wood. Plus the illustrator of her picture book biography, R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, Frank Morrison, is the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Book winner! Congratulations to Carole and her illustrators Michele and Frank!
Kelly Starling Lyon’s book Ty’s Travels: Zip, Zoom!, illustrated by Nina Mata, garnered a Geisel Honor Award. 
New readers will be reveling in this title! Fantasic job Kelly and illustrator Nina!
And last but certainly not least, Kwame Alexander’s imprint, Versify, through Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, was represented by 2 award winning titles: Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack earned a Sydney Taylor Book Award silver medal in the middle grade category, and
¡Vamos! Let’s Go Eat, illustrated and written by Raúl Gonzalez, took home the Pura Belpré Illustrator Award! Way to go Kwame, keep publishing those authentic titles!