The ALA has announced the winners of the Newbery Medal and Caldecott Medal. The medals are given annually to children's books. Here is a list of the winners.
Newbery Medal
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow Books)
Newbery Honor Books
Whittington by Alan Armstrong, illustrated by SD Schindler (Random House)
The Newbery and Caldecott are the most well-known of the ALSC medals but there are others including the Sibert Medal and Theodor Seuss Geisel Medal. A list of these winners can be found here