{"id":26237,"date":"2018-02-24T10:06:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T02:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=26237"},"modified":"2022-05-18T17:39:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T09:39:32","slug":"filipino-american-writer-wins-top-award-for-childrens-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2018\/02\/24\/filipino-american-writer-wins-top-award-for-childrens-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipino-American writer wins top award for children&#8217;s novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Filipino-American children&#8217;s book writer <strong>Erin Entrada Kelly<\/strong> bagged the<strong> John Newbery Medal<\/strong> for her middle-grade novel <em>Hello, Universe<\/em> at the American Library Association (ALA) Youth Media Awards held February 12 at the Colorado Convention Center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The John Newbery Medal is considered as one of the most prestigious recognitions in children&#8217;s literature. Kelly&#8217;s novel <em>Hello, Universe<\/em>, which was released in March 2017, was recognized for its &#8220;most outstanding contribution to children&#8217;s literature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The ALA Youth Media Awards is held every year to honor top books, videos, and audiobooks that are valuable for children and teens. It also serves as a guide for parents and educators in choosing the best materials for the youth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ever since its publication, Kelly&#8217;s novel has earned positive reviews from various book review magazines and journals, including Washington Post which hailed the novel as one of the Best Books of the Year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Hello, Universe <\/em>is a story of four middle-school pupils, a Filipino-American boy, a Japanese-American girl, a deaf girl, and a bully, who form an unlikely yet life-changing friendship on a fateful summer day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Kelly, who is currently based in Philadelphia, also authored other award-winning books like <em>Blackbird Fly<\/em> (2015) and <em>The Land For Forgotten Girls<\/em> (2016).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Sources: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/news\/press-releases\/2018\/02\/american-library-association-announces-2018-youth-media-award-winners\">American Library Association website<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/usa.inquirer.net\/10216\/fil-writer-wins-top-u-s-prize-childrens-novel\">Inquirer.net<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erinentradakelly.com\/bio\/\">Erin Entrada Kelly website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ErinEntradaKelly\/\">Erin Entrada Kelly Facebook page<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The award is considered as one of the most prestigious recognitions in children&#8217;s literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3585,5360,5359,5362,5358,5363,5361],"class_list":["post-26237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-3585","tag-ala-youth-media-awards","tag-american-library-association","tag-childrens-novel","tag-erin-entrada-kelly","tag-hello-universe","tag-john-newbery-medal"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/02\/17353533_1238530092899060_7704434821144046489_n-e1519477675357.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65108,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26237\/revisions\/65108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}