Cognotes 2018 Midwinter Meeting Denver Highlights - 10

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DENVER

MIDWINTER MEETING HIGHLIGHTS

American Indian Youth Literature Awards Announced
The American Indian Library Association
(AILA), an affiliate of the American Library Association, has selected three titles to receive the
2018 American Indian Youth Literature Award.
The 2018 AILA Best Picture Book is
Shanyaak'utlaax: Salmon Boy (2017) published
by Sealaska Heritage Institute, illustrated by
Tlingit artist Michaela Goade, and edited by
Tlingit speakers Johnny Marks, Hans Chester,
David Katzeek, Nora Dauenhauer, and Tlingit
linguist Richard Dauenhauer. The 2018 AILA
Best Middle School Book is Tales of the Mighty
Code Talkers, Volume 1 (2016) published by
Native Realities, edited by Arigon Starr (Kickapoo), and featuring the work of Theo Tso (Las
Vegas Paiute), Jonathan Nelson (Diné), Kristina
Bad Hand (Sičháŋǧu Lakota/Cherokee), Roy
Boney Jr. (Cherokee), Lee Francis IV (Laguna
Pueblo), Johnnie Diacon (Mvskoke/Creek),
Weshoyot Alvitre (Tongva), Renee Nejo (Mesa

Grand Band of Mission Indians), and Michael
Sheyahshe (Caddo). The 2018 AILA Best Young
Adult Book is #Not Your Princess: Voices of Native
American Women (2017) published by Annick
Press, by Lisa Charleyboy (Tsilhqot'in) and
Mary Beth Leatherdale, editors.
The American Indian Youth Literature
Awards are presented every two years. The
awards were established to identify and honor
the very best writing and illustrations by and
about American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Books selected to receive the award present
American Indians in the fullness of their
humanity in both present and past contexts.
Honor Books are also selected in each category.
2018 Picture Book Honors:
All Around Us (2017) by Xelena González
(Tap Pilam Coahuiltecan Nation) and illustrated by Adriana M. Garcia. Cinco Puntos Press.

BCALA Announces the 2018
Literary Awards Winners
The Black Caucus of the American Library
Association, Inc. (BCALA) announced the
winners of the 2018 BCALA Literary Awards
during the Midwinter Meeting. The awards
recognize excellence in adult fiction and
nonfiction by African American authors published in 2017, including an award
for Best Poetry and a citation for
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing. The recipients will receive
awards during the 2018 annual
meeting of the American Library
Association in New Orleans, La.
The winner of the 1st Novelist
Award is A Kind of Freedom: A Novel by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton (Counterpoint Press).
The fiction category winner is Difficult
Women by Roxane Gay (Grove/Atlantic, Inc.).
The Honor Books for Fiction are Sing,

Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (Scribner) and
The Tragedy of Brady Sims: A Novel by Ernest
J. Gaines (Knopf Doubleday).
The winner in the nonfiction category
is Chester B. Himes by Lawrence P. Jackson
(Norton W. W. & Company).
The Honor Book for the nonfiction
category is Defining Moments in Black
History: Reading Between the Lies by
Dick Gregory (HarperCollins).
The winner for BCALA's Best
Poetry Award is Incendiary Art: Poems
by Patricia Smith (Northwestern University Press).
The BCALA Literary Awards Committee
presents the Outstanding Contribution to
Publishing Citation to 100 Amazing Facts
About the Negro by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
(Knopf Doubleday).

AND THE WINNERS ARE...

Black Bear Red Fox (2017), written and
illustrated by Julie Flett (Cree/Métis). Native
Northwest.
Fall in Line, Holden! (2017), written and illustrated by Daniel W. Vandever (Diné). Salina
Bookshelf, Inc.
I'm Dreaming of... Animals of the Native
Northwest (2017) by Melaney Gleeson-Lyall
(Musqueam, Coast Salish) and illustrated by
First Nations artists. Native Northwest.
Mission to Space (2016), written and illustrated by John Herrington (Chickasaw). White
Dog Press.
2018 Middle Grade Honor
Book:
The Wool of Jonesy, Part 1 (2016), written
and illustrated by Jonathan Nelson (Diné).
Native Realities.

2018 Young Adult Honor
Books:
Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time: An
Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology (2016),
edited by Hope Nicholson, including stories
by Anishinaabe authors Grace L.  Dillon,
Niigaan Sinclair, and Nathan Adler; Richard
Van Camp (Dene/Tłı̨chǫ), Cherie Dimaline
(Métis), David A. Robertson (Swampy Cree),
Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee), Darcie
Little Badger (Lipan Apache), Gwen Benaway
(Annishinabe/Mètis), Mari Kurisato (Ojibwe
Nakawē), and Cleo Keahna (Ojibwe/Meskwaki). Bedside Press.
Marrow Thieves (2017) by Cherie Dimaline
(Métis). DCB (submitted by Orca Books).
Fire Starters (2016) by Jen Storm (Ojibway);
illustrated by Scott B. Henderson and colorist
Donovan Yaciuk. HighWater Press.

Readers' Advisory Experts Announce
2018 Reading List: Year's Best in
Genre Fiction for Adult Readers
The Reading List Council of the Reference
and User Services Association has announced
the 2018 selections of the Reading List, an
annual best-of list comprising eight different
fiction genres for adult readers.
The 2018 winners are:
Adrenaline
Fierce Kingdom: A Novel by Gin Phillips.
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random
House.
Fantasy
Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire. A Tor.com Book, published
by Tom Doherty Associates.
Historical Fiction
The Half-Drowned King: A Novel by Linnea
Hartsuyker. Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

Horror
Kill Creek by Scott Thomas. Inkshares.
Mystery
The Dime by Kathleen Kent. Mulholland
Books/Little, Brown and Company.
Romance
An Extraordinary Union: A Novel of the
Civil War by Alyssa Cole. Kensington Books.
Science Fiction
The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi.
Tor Science Fiction, a Tom Doherty Associates Book.
Women's Fiction
The Almost Sisters: A Novel by Joshilyn
Jackson. William Morrow, an imprint of
HarperCollins Publishers.
For the list, including annotations, shortlists and read alikes, visit www.rusaupdate.org.

RUSA Announces
Winner of 2018
Dartmouth Medal
The winner of the 2018 Dartmouth Medal
for most outstanding reference work, an annual award presented by the expert reference
and collection development librarians of
the Reference and User Services Association
(RUSA), a division of ALA, is The Music of
Central Asia published by Indiana University
Press and edited by Theodore Levin, Saida
Daukeyeva, and Elmira Köchümkulova.
The Dartmouth Medal, established in 1974,
honors the creation of a reference source of
outstanding quality and significance.
There are two Honorable Mentions this
year: The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and
Technology by Wiley and the American Association of Geographers, edited by Douglas
Richardson, and The Atlas of Ancient Rome by
Princeton University Press, edited by Andrea
Carandini.
With contributions from 27 authors from
14 countries, The Music of Central Asia is beautifully illustrated with sidebars and musician
profiles and an illustrated instrument glossary;
this is an extraordinary, affordable resource for
all libraries.
http://www.Tor.com http://www.rusaupdate.org
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