The National Book Award/Printz Overlap
I was recording an episode of The Yarn podcast with Colby Sharp recently, when he suggested I look at how many National Book Award winners (in the category of Young People’s Literature, of course) go on to win Michael L. Printz honors and medals.
Challenge accepted.
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Here’s the data, beginning with the National Book Award winner in 2001 (True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff), which went on to win a Printz Honor, up to the 2022 National Book Award winner (All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir), which went on to win a Printz Medal.
Not as much of an overlap as I would have expected, although there have been three books that have won the National Book Award and Printz since 2016 (March: Book 3, The Poet X, and All My Rage).
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About Travis Jonker
Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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