3 days ago · PHOENIX — Erin Entrada Kelly, author of “The First State of Being,” and Rebecca Lee Kunz, illustrator of “Chooch Helped,” are the 2025 recipients of the John Newbery and Randolph Caldecott Medals, the most prestigious awards in children’s literature. Kelly and Kunz were among the award winners announced today by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of ...

4 days ago · Erin Entrada Kelly won her second John Newbery Medal, receiving the 2025 award for her middle grade novel The First State of Being. It is the second Newbery win for Kelly, whose Hello, Universe won the medal in 2018. She also earned …

3 days ago · Erin Entrada Kelly’s “The First State of Being,” a coming-of-age story that blends time travel and the approaching millennium of the year 2000, has won the John Newbery Medal for the year’s outstanding children’s book. ... The awards were announced Monday by the American Library Association, which has gathered in Phoenix for ...

4 days ago · Erin Entrada Kelly’s “The First State of Being,” a coming-of-age story that blends time travel and the approaching millennium of the year 2000, has won the John Newbery Medal for the year ...

4 days ago · Erin Entrada Kelly wanted to write a love letter to one of her all-time favorite books—2010 Newbery Medal winner When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead. The result, Kelly's middle grade novel The First State of Being, just won the 2025 Newbery Medal. She becomes the seventh two-time Newbery winner.

Rosemont College is thrilled to congratulate Erin Entrada Kelly, MFA ’16, on receiving the 2025 Newbery Medal for her latest book, The First State of Being. This prestigious honor, awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, recognizes outstanding contributions to children’s literature.

4 days ago · NEW YORK (AP) — Erin Entrada Kelly’s “The First State of Being,” a coming-of-age story that blends time travel and the approaching millennium of the year 2000, has won the John Newbery Medal for the year’s outstanding children’s book. The Randolph Caldecott Medal for best picture story went to “Chooch Helped,” a tale of Cherokee […]

Erin Entrada Kelly is a two-time Newbery Medalist and National Book Award Finalist whose work has been translated into more than dozen languages. She is a New York Times- bestselling author and teaches in the Master's Program in Writing for Children and Young Adults at …

Erin Entrada Kelly was awarded the Newbery Medal for Hello, Universe and a Newbery Honor for We Dream of Space. She is a professor of children’s literature in the graduate fiction and publishing programs at Rosemont College, where she earned her MFA, and is on the faculty at Hamline University.

4 days ago · The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly. Newbery Honors Across So Many Seas by Ruth Behar Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All by Chanel Miller One Big Open Sky by Lesa Cline-Ransome The Wrong Way Home by Kate O’Shaughnessy. Caldecott Medal Chooch Helped by Andrea L Rogers, illustrated by Rebecca Lee Kunz. Caldecott Honors Home in a …