What a morning!
Congratulations to all the winners of the 2025 ALA Youth Media Awards!
Little did we suspect when we sat down to watch this morning’s presentation of the 2025 ALA Youth Media Awards (for a planned update on the winners of the 2025 Caldecott Award for our upcoming Book Club - see below) that the R(ev)ise and Shine! team would have so much to celebrate on behalf of one of our own:
Congratulations Lesa!!!!!!
As we’re cracking open the champagne and raising our glasses to One Big Open Sky and our fabulously talented, kind, and super well-deserving friend and colleague, we also congratulate our upcoming special guest (see below), Erin Entrada Kelly, on winning a second Newbery Medal for her wonderful novel, The First State of Being:
We’re so happy we could burst!
Congratulations to all of this year’s medalists and honorees!
And now, on to our updates:
Announcements:
The Writers' Book Club hosted by R(ev)ise and Shine! focuses on specific questions of craft in order to become better at reading like writers.
For our next meeting we'll be discussing:
The winners of the 2025 Caldecott Medal and Honors!
As announced in this morning’s 2025 ALA Youth Media Awards presentation, the 2025 Caldecott Medalist is:
Chooch Helped, by Andrea L. Rogers, illustrated by Rebecca Lee Kunz
In addition, there were four Calecott Honorees also named:
Up, Up, Ever Up! Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains, by Anita Yasuda, Illustrated by Yuko Shimizu
Noodles on a Bicycle, by Kyo Maclear, Illustrated by Gracey Zhang
My Daddy Is a Cowboy, by Stephanie Seales, illustrated by C.G. Esperanza
Home in a Lunchbox, by Cherry Mo, illustrated by Cherry Mo
We hope to see you on Wednesday, February 12 at 7:00 pm ET.
This will be an open conversation without pre-assigned discussion questions, so please come prepared to share your general thoughts on these wonderful and deserving books.
$1.00 minimum dues to attend ($5.00 suggested)
Click the image below to find out more and sign up:
And don’t forget to sign up for our upcoming Zoomie guest hosted by a TWO-TIME Newbery Medalist:
Scene Studies with Erin Entrada Kelly
In this two-day intensive, students will analyze scenes from a wide range of novels to discuss character, pacing, dialogue, subtext, and other elements of craft. Students will learn the characteristics of effective scenes and revision strategies to apply what they learn. Open to writers of all levels and genres.
When: Saturday, March 22 & Sunday, March 23, 2025 from 1:00 to 4:00 pm ET both days
Where: Online
Cost: $195*
*For those who can’t attend live, a recording of each session will be made available for 30 days after the event for all ticket holders.
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Erin Entrada Kelly is a two-time Newbery Medalist, National Book Award Finalist, and New York Times-bestselling author whose work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. She is on faculty with the Hamline MFAC program and has taught workshops with the Highlights Foundation, Gotham Writers Workshop, the Writers Barn, and elsewhere. Find out more at: www.erinentradakelly.com
Congrats Lesa and Erin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!