With the Youth Media Awards on Monday January 28, buzz around the Caldecott-winning This Is Not My Hat (Candlewick), the Newbery-winning The One and Only Ivan (HarperCollins), and the Printz-winning In Darkness (Bloomsbury), is higher than ever. School Library Journal has compiled a list of relevant blog posts, reviews, interviews, and articles related to the winners and honor books. (John) Newbery Medal The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate HarperCollins Children’s Books Fuse #8: Review of the Day Honors: Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz Candlewick Curriculum Connections: An Apprentice to Dickens: An Interview with Laura Amy Schlitz Tall Tale: Laura Amy Schlitz (2008 profile) Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin Flash Point/Roaring Brook Curriculum Connections: Steve Sheinkin Writes a Thriller: An Interview with Steve Sheinkin Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage Dial/Penguin Young Readers Heavy Medal: Three Times Lucky (Randolph) Caldecott Medal This Is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen Candlewick Press This Is Not My Sequel: Just Wait Till You See This New Book from Jon Klassen: Under Cover Interview Honors: Creepy Carrots! illus. by Peter Brown, written by Aaron Reynolds Simon & Schuster Fuse #8: Review of the Day: Creepy Carrots! Extra Yarn illus. by Jon Klassen, written by Mac Barnett HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray SLJ Review of the Day Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger Neal Porter Books/Roaring Brook Fuse #8: Review of the Day: Green One Cool Friend illus. by David Small, written by Toni Buzzeo Dial/Penguin Young Readers Book Verdict Review Sleep Like a Tiger, illus. by Pamela Zagarenski, written by Mary Logue Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Review of the Day Theodore Seuss Geisel Award Up, Tall and High by Ethan Long G. P. Putnam’s Sons Honors: Let’s Go for a Drive! by Mo Willems Hyperion/Disney Highlighted in Curriculum Connections: Fun and Fresh: Books for Emergent Readers Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by Eric Litwin, created and illus. by James Dean HarperCollins Book Verdict Review Rabbit & Robot: The Sleepover written and illus. by Cece Bell Candlewick Fuse #8: Review of the Day (Laura Ingalls) Wilder Award Katherine Paterson Katherine Paterson Named National Ambassador for Young People's Literature in 2010 Katherine the Great: There couldn't be a better choice for our new kids' book ambassador than Katherine Paterson Andrew Carnegie Medal Anna, Emma and the Condors Produced by Katja Torneman Book Verdict Review Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin Flash Point/Roaring Brook Curriculum Connections: Steve Sheinkin Writes a Thriller: An Interview with Steve Sheinkin Honors: Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by Robert Byrd Dial/Penguin Young Readers Book Verdict Review Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 by Phillip M. Hoose Farrar A Chair, a Fireplace and a Tea Cozy: Review Jonathan Hunt's assessment on Heavy Medal Titanic: Voices from the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson Scholastic Someday My Printz Will Come: Titanic: Voices from the Disaster (Is Not a Disaster) Mildred L. Batchelder Award My Family for the War by Anne C. Voorhoeve Dial/Penguin Young Readers Book Verdict Review Honors: A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return by Zeina Abirached, tr. by Edward Gauvin Graphic Universe/Lerner SLJ Pick of the Day Son of a Gun, written and tr. by Anne de Graaf Eerdmans Book Verdict Review May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award Andrea Davis Pinkney Celebration Time: Black History Month by Andrea Davis Pinkney Teacher Appreciation Week: Andrea Davis Pinkney's Letter to Mr. Dwyer Pura Belpré Awards Author: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz Simon & Schuster SLJ Review Honor: The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano by Sonia Manzano Scholastic Book Verdict Review Illustrator: Martín de Porres: The Rose in the Desert Illus. by David Diaz, written by Gary D. Schmidt Clarion Michael L. Printz Award In Darkness by Nick Lake Bloomsbury Pick of the Day Honors: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz Simon & Schuster SLJ Review Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein Hyperion/Disney A Chair, a Fireplace and a Tea Cozy: Review Dodger by Terry Pratchett HarperCollins Children’s Books Someday My Printz Will Come: Review The White Bicycle by Beverley Brenna Red Deer Press Odyssey Award The Fault in Our Stars, written by John Green, narrated by Kate Rudd Produced by Brilliance Audio SLJ Review Honors: Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian, produced by Listening Library, written by Eoin Colfer and narrated by Nathaniel Parker Ghost Knight, produced by Listening Library, written by Cornelia Funke and narrated by Elliot Hill Monstrous Beauty, produced by Macmillian Audio, written by Elizabeth Fama and narrated by Katherine Kellgren YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin Flash Point/Roaring Brook Curriculum Connections: Steve Sheinkin Writes a Thriller: An Interview with Steve Sheinkin Finalists: Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different by Karen Blumenthal Feiwel & Friends Curriculum Connections: Karen Blumenthal Connects the Dots: Interview Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 by Phillip Hoose Farrar Heavy Medal: Black Hole and Moonbird Titanic: Voices from the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson Scholastic Someday My Printz Will Come We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March by Cynthia Levinson Peachtree Publishers Practically Paradise: Nonfiction Monday William C. Morris Award Seraphina by Rachel Hartman Random House Someday My Printz Will Come: Seraphina Finalists: Wonder Show by Hannah Barnaby Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books A Chair, a Fireplace and a Tea Cozy Love and Other Perishable Items by Laura Buzo Knopf/Random House After the Snow by S. D. Crockett Feiwel and Friends SLJ Review The Miseducation of Cameron Post by emily m. danforth Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins Someday My Printz Will Come Margaret A. Edwards Award: Tamora Pierce for her “Song of the Lioness” series Coretta Scott King Book Awards Author: Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illus. by Brian Pinkney Hyperion/Disney Books to Celebrate the Everyday Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement Honors: Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson, illus. by E. B. Lewis Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin Young Readers Interview with Jacqueline Woodson No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie Carolrhoda Lab/Lerner Heavy Medal Illustrator: I, Too, Am America illus. by Bryan Collier, written by Langston Hughes Simon & Schuster Honors: H. O. R. S. E., illus. & written by Christopher Myers (listed in this interview highlighting the hottest books of Fall 2012) Egmont USA Included in Interview: JLG's Susan Marson Talks About the Hottest Upcoming Books for Fall 2012 Ellen’s Broom, illus. by Daniel Minter, written by Kelly Starling Lyons Putnam/Penguin Young Readers Included in Black History Month 2012 I Have a Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., illus. by Kadir Nelson, written by Martin Luther King, Jr. Schwartz & Wade/Random House (listed in this compilation of books for celebrating MLK Day Included in Great Books for Celebrating Martin Luther King Day Virginia Hamilton: Demetria Tucker Practitioner Award for Lifetime achievement Stonewall Book Award Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz Simon & Schuster SLJ Review Honors: Drama by Raina Telgemeier Graphix/Scholastic Inc. Good Comics for Kids Gone, Gone, Gone by Hannah Moskowitz Simon Pulse/Simon & Schuster October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard by Lesléa Newman Candlewick Interview with Lesléa Newman Sparks: The Epic, Completely True Blue, (Almost) Holy Quest of Debbie, by S. J. Adams Flux