Going Bovine by Libba Bray has won the 2010 Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature. L.K. Madigan won the William C. Morris Award for Flash Burnout.
The John Newbery Medal for most outstanding contribution to children’s literature went to
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead.  The Randolph Caldecott Medal for most distinguished American picture book for children was awarded to Jerry Pinkney for The Lion & the Mouse.
For a summary of all awards and winners, please visit the ALA Website.

Katherine Paterson replaces Jon Scieszka as national Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, a two-year position created to raise national awareness of the importance of lifelong literacy and education.

“Katherine Paterson represents the finest in literature for young people,” said Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. “Her renown is national as well as international, and she will most ably fulfill the role of a national ambassador who speaks to the importance of reading and literacy in the lives of America’s youth.” Paterson has chosen “Read for Your Life” as the theme for her term as Ambassador.

Paterson has won the National Book Award for The Great Gilly Hopkins (1979) and The Master Puppeteer (1977). Other awards include the Hans Christian Andersen Medal and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.

The Library of Congress’s Center for the Book and the Children’s Book Council  are the sponsors of the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature.

Author Hazel Edwards has been awarded the 2009 ASA Medal. 

Established in 2003, the ASA Medal is awarded biennially in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the Australian writing community. For more information, please visit Hazel Edward's website.

Where the Streets Had A Name by Randa Abdel-Fattah is the winner of the 2009 Golden Inky award, voted by readers of the State Library of Victoria's young adult reading site insideadog.com. The winner of the 2009 Silver Inky, which goes to a book by an international author, is The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. 

For more information, please visit insideadog

Former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen has launched Perform a Poem, a safe website for people in schools who like performing and watching performance poetry. Children can view videos and create and upload their own. Perform-a-Poem is part of Michael’s Poetry-Friendly Classroom website, which offers teachers video tips, activity sheets, links and other resources to help make their classrooms poetry-friendly. 

Perform-a-Poem was developed by Booktrust in association with Michael Rosen and the London Grid for Learning. 

The Graveyard Book tells the story of Nobody 'Bod' Owens, a child abandoned on a graveyard after the vicious murder of his parents and sister. Raised and educated by the graveyard's ghosts, Bod encounters real danger in the land of the living, as his family's murderer is determined to find him. 

For more information, please visit the Booktrust website.

The winners of this year's YABBA Victorian children's choice book awards are
    * Fiction Years 7-9: Then (Morris Gleitzman, Viking)
    * Fiction Older Readers: Specky Magee And The Spirit Of Game (Felice Arena & Garry Lyon, Puffin)
    * Fiction Younger Readers: ‘Zac Power' Series 1 (H I Larry, Hardie Grant Egmont)
    * Picture Storybooks: Are We There Yet? (Alison Lester, Viking).
 
The YABBA Awards are determined by students around Victoria voting on their favourite books. For more information about YABBA visit www.vicnet.net.au/~yabba. 
 

Competition Minister Craig Emerson has announced ‘the Government has not accepted the Productivity Commission's recommendation to remove the parallel importation restrictions' (PIRs) on books. Instead, the government has opted for no change whatsoever to the current arrangements, including retaining the 30- and 90-day rules as they stand.