One-Sentence Summaries

The Newbery Award is an annual award for the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year.  (It was the first Children's Book Award in the world - 1922.)

The Caldecott Award is an annual award for the artist of the best illustrated American children's book of the previous year.

The Coretta Scott King Book Awards are given annually to an outstanding African America AUTHOR and ILLUSTRATOR.

Hello Lighthouse by Blackall, Sophie
     2019 Caldecott Award Winner
          Follow a lighthouse keeper's life in a tiny, isolated lighthouse that sits on a rock in the middle of the sea -  first alone....then with his wife....then with a child, until the lighthouse becomes automated.

Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
     2019 Newbery Award Winner
          Merci Suarez is a scholarship student at an expensive academy in Florida - dealing with all the complications of being a preteen/middleschooler both at school and at home.  It's a really heartwarming story.

The Stuff of Stars by Ekua  (AY-kwa) Holmes
     2019 Coretta Scott King Illustration Winner
          Using hand-marbled paper and collage, Ekua Holmes created a stunning visual re-creation of how the universe was formed.