They didn't get the Newbery or Caldecott but these kids' authors won big this year

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They didn't get the Newbery or Caldecott but these kids' authors won big this year

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Angeline Boulley did not win a Newbery or a Caldecott medal this year from the American Library Association.

Those are the two oldest and arguably most prestigious² awards in children's literature. But they're among 22 awards the ALA handed out this week to books for kids, and a few names kept coming up during the ceremony, Boulley's among them.

An enrolled³ member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Boulley was honored with the American Indian Youth Literature Awards for her YA novel Firekeeper's Daughter. It also won the William C. Morris Award for a debut⁴ book by a first-time author writing for teens, and the Michael L. Printz Award for excellence⁵ in literature written for young adults. That's three significant awards.

Author Malinda Lo was only a runner up for the Printz award but please don't feel too sorry for her. Her YA novel Last Night At the Telegraph Club had already won a National Book Award; the ALA awarded it the youth literature prize for Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature as well as the Stonewall Book Award - Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature award given to young adult books related to the LGBT experience.

"I belong to both of those communities so I'm tremendously honored," Lo told NPR, beaming in a call over Zoom⁶.

But the book for young people that received the most recognition from the American Library Association this year is called Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre⁷. Author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper each won a Coretta Scott King award this year. Unspeakable was also a Caldecott honor book and a runner up for the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal.

"For me, the biggest reward comes in the form of a question," Weatherford told NPR. She says when children engage with her book, they always ask her the same things. "Did that really happen. or, why did that happen? Why did White people treat Black people so unfairly? Why were they being so hateful?"

A children's book about the Tulsa race massacre could be banned in a number of states these days, Weatherford warns, because some legislators might view it as "critical race theory." She says would have loved to celebrate with her collaborator⁸ Floyd Cooper, but the acclaimed⁹ illustrator did not live to see his most recent set of honors. Cooper died in July of cancer at the age of 65.

1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 prestigious   

adj.有威望的，有声望的，受尊敬的

参考例句：

• The young man graduated from a prestigious university.这个年轻人毕业于一所名牌大学。
• You may even join a prestigious magazine as a contributing editor.甚至可能会加入一个知名杂志做编辑。

3 enrolled   

adj.入学登记了的v.[亦作enrol]( enroll的过去式和过去分词 )；登记，招收，使入伍（或入会、入学等），参加，成为成员；记入名册；卷起，包起

参考例句：

• They have been studying hard from the moment they enrolled. 从入学时起，他们就一直努力学习。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He enrolled with an employment agency for a teaching position. 他在职业介绍所登了记以谋求一个教师的职位。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 debut   

n.首次演出，初次露面

参考例句：

• That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里，他初次在百老汇登台，扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
• The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。

5 excellence   

n.优秀，杰出，(pl.)优点，美德

参考例句：

• His art has reached a high degree of excellence.他的艺术已达到炉火纯青的地步。
• My performance is far below excellence.我的表演离优秀还差得远呢。

6 zoom   

n.急速上升；v.突然扩大，急速上升

参考例句：

• The airplane's zoom carried it above the clouds.飞机的陡直上升使它飞到云层之上。
• I live near an airport and the zoom of passing planes can be heard night and day.我住在一个飞机场附近，昼夜都能听到飞机飞过的嗡嗡声。

7 massacre   

n.残杀，大屠杀；v.残杀，集体屠杀

参考例句：

• There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中，这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
• If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀，大屠杀就有可能再次发生！

8 collaborator   

n.合作者，协作者

参考例句：

• I need a collaborator to help me. 我需要个人跟我合作，帮我的忙。
• His collaborator, Hooke, was of a different opinion. 他的合作者霍克持有不同的看法。

9 acclaimed   

adj.受人欢迎的

参考例句：

• They acclaimed him as the best writer of the year. 他们称赞他为当年的最佳作者。
• Confuscius is acclaimed as a great thinker. 孔子被赞誉为伟大的思想家。