The book also won the Pura Belpré Award for the best book by a Latinx author. Who is John Newbery? A major children's book award is named after him. The Randolph Caldecott Medal, given to the ...

In a ceremony that NPR tells us was “packed as much with jabs at Amazon as with jazzy entrance music,” the National Book Foundation announced this year’s National Book Awards Wednesday night.

Ned Blackhawk received the nonfiction award, with “The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History.” By Elizabeth A. Harris and Alexandra Alter The National Book ...

Jacksonville had two winners in the 10th annual Florida Book Awards for works published in 2015: Gracie L. Chandler won a silver medal in the General Fiction category for "Free to Be," a story of ...