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'Adventures Of Beekle' Wins Caldecott Newbery
Goes To 'The Crossover'
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• Your guide to the best new children's and young
  adult literature is here. The winners of the 2015
  Newbery and Caldecott youth literature awards
  were announced Monday morning by the American
  Library Association. The Caldecott Medal
  (Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most
  distinguished American picture book for children)
  went to "The Adventures of Beekle The
  Unimaginary Friend," illustrated and written by
  Dan Santat, which follows the journey of an
  imaginary friend in search of his perfect match.
  The Newbery Medal (John Newbery Medal for most
  outstanding contribution to children's
  literature) was awarded to "The Crossover" by
  Kwame Alexander, a story about family and
  brotherhood told through verse by 12-year-old
  twin basketball players Josh and Jordan Bell.
  Parents can use these titles as a guide when
  considering what books to recommend to their
  children and teens, while teachers and librarians
  look to the award-winning and runner-up titles as
  a helpful list of what to keep on the shelves in
  classrooms and libraries. The ALA Youth Media
  Awards were announced during the organization's
  winter meeting in Chicago and selected by a
  national judging committee of librarians and
  children's literature experts. (To see all past
  winners visit http//www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrant
  s/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecotthonors/caldeco
  ttmedal)

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In Other News

• Florida teacher saves 38 children from burning
  bushttp//www.cnn.com/2015/02/03/living/ep-kristi
  nabuhrman/index.html
• As second novels go, this one should prove a
  doozy. More than five decades after Harper Lee
  published her first and, so far, only novel,
  To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee's publisher has
  announced that she plans to release a new one.
  The book, currently titled Go Set a Watchman,
  will be published July 14. The Associated Press,
  which broke the news, reports that Lee actually
  finished the 304-page novel in the mid-1950s
  before Mockingbird was published in 1960 but
  Lee had decided to shelve the work at the time.
• To mark 80 years of Monopoly, game maker Hasbro
  has tucked real money into 80 game sets to be
  sold in France. The amount of cash in the boxes
  varies only one set will come with the
  equivalent of the Monopoly bank. Finding the
  20,580 euros will be a challenge. Hasbro is
  putting a sticker on 30,000 boxes of the game to
  announce that they might contain real cash. The
  company says it sells about 500,000 of the sets
  in France each year. While only one game box will
  include the equivalent of about 23,500, the 79
  others will include hundreds of euros mixed in
  with the colorful Monopoly money. (In honor of
  homeroom!)