Donna Barba Higuera has received the US’s prime kids’s ebook award, the Newbery medal, for her story of an Earth destroyed by a comet, and the woman who's the one one who remembers it.
Higuera’s The Final Cuentista, which blends Mexican folklore with science fiction, was named winner on Monday. The prize, which is called after John Newbery, the 18th-century English writer who was one of many first folks to publish books solely for kids, has been operating for 100 years. It has been received prior to now by a few of the most enduring classics of American kids’s literature, from Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time to Katherine Paterson’s Bridge to Terabithia and Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard E book.
Higuera’s novel, her second, tells the story of Petra Peña, whose household is chosen to journey to a brand new planet when Earth is destroyed by a comet. When she wakes up, lots of of years later, she finds she is the one individual to recollect Earth, after a “sinister Collective” has taken over the ship, purging the reminiscences of these on board. “Petra alone now carries the tales of our previous, and with them, any hope for our future. Can she make them reside once more?” says writer Levine Querido, an unbiased press.
“I've pinched myself, squeezed my eyes tremendous tight, and it’s all nonetheless actual life! What a day! Taking a minute to digest over right here,” stated Higuera on studying of her win.
The awards, that are run by the American Library Affiliation, additionally noticed the Caldecott medal for the illustrator of essentially the most distinguished American image ebook for kids go to Jason Chin’s Watercress. The image ebook, which was written by Andrea Wang, tells the story of a kid of Chinese language immigrants who cease off whereas driving by Ohio to reap watercress they see rising wild. At first, the woman is embarrassed, however adjustments her thoughts when her mom tells her a narrative concerning the household’s time in China.
“Speechless. Honored. Overjoyed,” tweeted Chin on studying of his win. Wang congratulated him. “I can’t specific how a lot I wished [Jason Chin] to win the Caldecott. His unbelievable, luminous, beautiful artwork not solely introduced the story to life but in addition introduced misplaced household again to me,” she stated. Watercress additionally received the Asian Pacific American award for finest image ebook at Monday’s ceremony.
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