This year’s top US kids book honors go to…

Coming-of-age tale The First State of Being wins the American Library Association's 2025 Newbery Medal, and picture book Chooch Helped is the latest Randolph Caldecott Medal recipient.

By Sadhana Bharanidharan

January 28, 2025

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