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Please contact the program chairs for more information and plan to join us! -Claudia Christensen Haag, Texas Woman's University, and Saba Vlach, University of Texas Children's Literature Assembly at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Annual Convention 2017 Please join us for the 2017 annual Children's Literature Assembly (CLA) Author's Breakfast. ALA Youth Media Awards http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/ NEWBERY MEDAL 2017 WINNER The Girl Who Drank the Moon, by Kelly Barnhill (Algonquin Young Readers) 2017 HONORS Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life, written and illustrated by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog, by Adam Gidwitz, illustrated by Hatem Aly (Dutton Children's Books) Wolf Hollow, by Lauren Wolk (Dutton Children's Books) RANDOLPH CALDECOTT MEDAL 2017 WINNER Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, written and illustrated by Javaka Steptoe (Little, Brown) 2017 HONORS Leave Me Alone!, written and illustrated by Vera Brosgol (Roaring Brook Press) Freedom in Congo Square, by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie (Little Bee Books) Du Iz Tak?, written and illustrated by Carson Ellis (Candlewick Press) They All Saw a Cat, written and illustrated by Brendan Wenzel (Chronicle Books) 2018 MAY HILL ARBUTHNOT HONOR LECTURE AWARD Naomi Shihab Nye MILDRED L. BATCHELDER AWARD 2017 WINNER Cry, Heart, but Never Break, by Glen Ringtved, illustrated by Charolotte Pardi, translated from Danish by Robert Moulthrop (Enchanted Lion Books) 2017 HONORS Over the Ocean, written and illustrated...