The Best Tweets from the 2022 Youth Media Awards

If you want to sell something by phone to a children's author or illustrator and you're not already in their contacts, these next 13 hours are your best shot.

— Chris Barton (@Bartography) January 24, 2022

The words on all of our minds… See you tomorrow at 8am CT at https://t.co/OGXk2cq77D! #YouthMediaAwards #ALAyma #Wordle #KidLit #Newbery100 #LibLearnX pic.twitter.com/Ez2FUunn5D

— 90-Second Newbery (@90secondnewbery) January 24, 2022

All dressed up and excited for @ALALibrary Youth Media #Awards #alayma #kidlit #picturebooks #novels #poetry #writerslife pic.twitter.com/c2cmyeBa9r

— Lesléa Newman (@lesleanewman) January 24, 2022

When your cat gets jealous during #alayma & you keep quietly screaming for books because it’s 6am where you are pic.twitter.com/VqKqgDSyJL

— Alec Chunn (@thestoriesguy) January 24, 2022

I’m amazed. And overwhelmed. And filled with gratitude. Endless gratitude.

And I’m thinking about all my relatives, near and far. I hope they’re proud of me. I hope they know that I strive to tell these stories in a good way. That I just want to lift kids up. #alaYMA #AIYLA

— Christine Day (Upper Skagit) (@ByChristineDay) January 24, 2022

Jane Yolen! Sydney Taylor Body of Work Award!

— Nikki Grimes (she/her) (@nikkigrimes9) January 24, 2022

So proud to announce that LINKED has been named a Sydney Taylor Honor Book and a NJBA winner! pic.twitter.com/PllURBMJHF

— Gordon korman (@gordonkorman) January 24, 2022

I am so honored, thrilled and overjoyed that The Passover Guest has WON the Sydney Taylor Book Award.

It means more than I can possibly put into words.

Thank you to the STBA committee and thank you to @JewishLibraries

Thank you to every reader of this book. https://t.co/7mPhq3Ht9t

— ?Susan Kusel? (@susankusel) January 24, 2022

This is the face of a very happy author. Thank you to the Stonewall award committee for this honor for The Darkness Outside Us – and thanks to the centuries of queer writers who worked in obscurity, cracking open a door that is wider now than it has ever been now. #alayma pic.twitter.com/h9N3Ig8Yp0

— Eliot Schrefer ? (@EliotSchrefer) January 24, 2022

Hooray for @nikkigrimes9!! pic.twitter.com/qCTKEK9iLk

— John Schu (@MrSchuReads) January 24, 2022

GUESS WHO'S A HAPPY CAMPER? ME! Thank you @ala_apala @ALALibrary https://t.co/ppaS6oGOGU

— James Yang (@yangmeister) January 24, 2022

An emotional moment for so many reasons!!!! SO grateful to the Sydney Taylor Award committee and @Tweetpathi @KokilaBooks @PenguinClass @saraagent @LovethePippins!!!!! #ALAyma Beyond honored!!! It means so much??? https://t.co/vRK8eajwV7

— Veera Hiranandani (she/her/hers) (@VeeraHira) January 24, 2022

2022 Coretta Scott King Book Awards (CSK) Winners! #alayma What an HONOR it has been to serve on this committee with my brilliant colleagues. <3 Thank you. pic.twitter.com/FDEVILVCbX

— Alia Jones (@readitrealgood) January 24, 2022

FREAKING OUT pic.twitter.com/8Z2TGLYPGd

— Jake Maia Arlow (@jakewhosagirl) January 24, 2022

I am enjoying the look of Bright Star with it #purabelpre honor seal! pic.twitter.com/iGiIobKpuD

— Yuyi Morales (@yuyimorales) January 24, 2022

Sobbing over here! pic.twitter.com/qW276KWNC3

— AngelineBoulley – hibernating, writing on deadline (@FineAngeline) January 24, 2022

I miss the librarians screaming and whooping in the big room! #ALAYMA22

— Erin Murphy (@agentemurph) January 24, 2022

The 2022 Children’s Literature Legacy Award goes to Grace Lin #ALAyma

— Children's Bookshelf (@PWKidsBookshelf) January 24, 2022

yes, this really happened… https://t.co/e2OuUjdn3s

— Grace Lin (@pacylin) January 24, 2022

Look, you win a big award at #alayma22, and the paparazzi will COME FOR YOU!

I spotted @pacylin this afternoon… pic.twitter.com/l4iaEWzwd1

— Jarrett J. Krosoczka (@StudioJJK) January 24, 2022

Thank you Sibert Award committee for recognizing The Great Stink. Poop jokes aside, the story of Bazalgette is about human ingenuity in the face of dangerous environmental threats. Working on a book about a pandemic during a pandemic turned out to be improbably cathartic. pic.twitter.com/LWIlZluRYP

— Nancy Carpenter (@NancyCarpntr) January 25, 2022

Watercress!!!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/olABBMFBgr

— Colby Sharp (@colbysharp) January 24, 2022

Ahhhhh!!! ??? https://t.co/YKMmBn0iuI

— Andrea Wang ??? (@AndreaYWang) June 23, 2021

Speechless. Honored. Overjoyed. So incredibly grateful to the committees(!), to our Holiday House family, especially the incredible @AndreaYWang ! pic.twitter.com/Ih9tIblPFq

— Jason Chin (@authorjasonchin) January 24, 2022

Still trying to soak it all in. So many people to thank. Forgive me if I forget anyone. (I'm still stunned.) @ALALibrary @yalsa @nancyrosep @PenguinClass @penguinkids @lizaroyceagency pic.twitter.com/Mf24kLCUS8

— Author Lisa Fipps (@AuthorLisaFipps) January 24, 2022

Over the moon that RED, WHITE, AND WHOLE has won a Newbery Honor!! I'm so grateful to the Newbery Committee and @ALALibrary for choosing this book of my heart. Thank you to @alexandra_coops @rosemaryhb and @QuillTreeBooks for believing in this story! ?????? pic.twitter.com/kjEPVBfuMw

— ??? Rajani LaRocca ???? (@rajanilarocca) January 24, 2022

I just won a Newbery honor and the Stonewall award(again) and all I can come up with is "Newstoneberywall." I'm so honored and grateful to everyone who let my book about trans youth and the beloved dead into their hearts.

— Kyle Lukoff (@KyleLukoff) January 24, 2022

I am so incredibly moved by this honor of receiving the Pura Belpre Award. Congrats to @CGEsperanza @yuyimorales Nomar Perez and Loris Lora. I look forward to sharing the stage with you in June! Thanks to Reforma and my team at @versifybooks
& to @dnahxeh my amazing collaborator https://t.co/rJdt9YWgLq

— Raul the Third creator of Vamos! (@raulthe3rd) January 24, 2022

How awesome to be included in this group of books
& true stories with @cylev @ColleenPaeff @poetweatherford @tracisorell @mstewartscience! @MacKidsSL @MacKidsBooks @EditorHsu pic.twitter.com/9cX2hr7otV

— Steve Sheinkin (@SteveSheinkin) January 24, 2022

meeeeeeeep SURPRISE! ???? a wonderful start to the week! @littlebeebooks https://t.co/tVTODg3KKo

— Harry Woodgate {they/them} ? (@harryewoodgate) January 24, 2022

Thank you so much! (footage below of me when they announced this morning.) pic.twitter.com/Ic8c3Ah89v

— Donna Barba Higuera ? (@dbhiguera) January 24, 2022

I have pinched myself, squeezed my eyes super tight, and it's all still real life! What a day! Taking a minute to digest over here. ? @ALALibrary @LevineQuerido @StimolaLiterary https://t.co/pG3bA04ImR

— Donna Barba Higuera ? (@dbhiguera) January 25, 2022

Yesterday was the excitement of #alayma22, which means today it’s time for… EXTREME CALDECOTT PLACEMENT, aka why stop at putting these shiny stickers on the cover when you could put them inside the book too! ? @wearealsc #ExtremeCaldecottPlacement https://t.co/ZSb4iqmoK0

— Minh Lê (@bottomshelfbks) January 25, 2022