American graphic novelist Danica Novgorodoff has received the Yoto Kate Greenaway Medal for her illustrated version of Jason Reynold’s 2019 guide Lengthy Method Down – the primary graphic novel to win in 50 years.
The winners of the Yoto Carnegie Greenaway Awards – the UK’s longest-running guide awards for kids and younger individuals – have been introduced throughout a ceremony at The British Library.
Creator Katya Balen’s novel October, October scooped the Yoto Carnegie Medal. Her debut novel The Area We’re In was longlisted in 2019.
October, October follows a woman who should be taught to unfold her wings after a childhood spent residing within the woods adjustments dramatically when she reaches the age of 11.
The story was reportedly impressed by Balen’s father-in-law who lives off grid.
Novgorodoff’s graphic novel was awarded the Yoto Kate Greenaway Medal, making it the primary graphic novel to win since Raymond Briggs’ Father Christmas in 1973.
Lengthy Method Down is Novgorodoff’s debut kids’s guide revealed within the UK and is an adaptation of the unique verse novel of gun violence and grief written by 2021 Yoto Carnegie Medal winner Reynolds.
The guide options watercolours depicting the choices that 15-year-old Will should make after his brother is shot.
Novgorodoff mentioned: “I’m honoured and humbled to obtain the Yoto Kate Greenaway Medal.
“Engaged on Lengthy Method Down, decoding Jason Reynolds’ stunning textual content into photographs, was a dream venture for me and its personal reward, however I’m thrilled to search out that the graphic novel has resonated with readers as effectively.”
Balen’s October, October achieved additional success after it additionally scooped the Shadowers’ Selection Award for the Yoto Carnegie Medal, as voted for by younger individuals throughout the UK and internationally.
Balen mentioned: “I’m so thrilled to have received the Yoto Carnegie Medal, not solely as a result of it’s the award each kids’s author desires about, however as a result of it’s so dedicated to selling studying and sharing tales. Sharing tales is one thing I imagine to be one of the vital vital elements of our lives, just because tales are our lives.
“They’re threads that join us all. They make us perceive, they provide us a shared expertise, and so they give us one thing particular and personal too. They offer us wild freedom and so they give us security and luxury.”
The Midnight Honest, illustrated by Mariachiara Di Giorgio and written by Gideon Sterer, was introduced because the winner of the Shadowers’ Selection Award for the Yoto Kate Greenaway Medal.
The wordless image guide uncovers the key lifetime of animals who collect in a fairground at evening.
The winners have been revealed in a ceremony held in individual at The British Library for the primary time since 2019 and hosted by poet and novelist Dean Atta, and featured chair of judges, librarian Jennifer Horan, alongside a number of the younger individuals who formally shadowed the 2022 awards.
Katya Balen was awarded the Yoto Carnegie Medal for her novel October, October (Tom Pilston/PA)
The awards have a good time excellent achievement in kids’s writing and illustration respectively and intention to encourage a brand new technology of readers.
Horan mentioned: “I’m delighted to share this yr’s Yoto Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medal winners, each of which offer excellent studying experiences for younger individuals.
“October, October by Katya Balen is a charming story that includes beautiful descriptions of the pure world and relationships that develop and heal. It’s an expertly written, stunning and lyrical novel alive with marvel and curiosity.
“Lengthy Method Down, illustrated by Danica Novgorodoff, is a superb, progressive adaptation of the novel by Jason Reynolds.
“It makes use of beautiful watercolour to powerfully painting the tragedy of gun violence and the emotional influence it has on younger individuals’s lives.”
The winners every obtain £500 price of books to donate to an area library of their alternative, a specifically commissioned golden medal and a £5,000 Colin Mears Award money prize.
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