2022 ALA Youth Media Awards

Winners and Honor books for the 2022 awards
 

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1. Nicky & Vera: a quiet hero of the Holocaust and the children he rescued

Book cover for "Nicky & Vera"
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Author:
Sís, Peter, 1949-
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
Sidney Taylor Picture Book honor book
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"Caldecott Honoree and Sibert Medalist Peter Sís honors a man who saved hundreds of children from the Nazis. In 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Winton saved the lives of almost 700 children trapped in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia-a story he never told and that remained unknown until an unforgettable TV appearance in the 1980s reunited him with some of the children he saved. Czech-American artist, MacArthur Fellow, and Andersen Award winner Peter...