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NEW YORK — Rebecca Stead’s “When You Reach Me” and Jerry Pinkney’s “The Lion and the Mouse,” two highly praised books for young people that draw upon famous stories, have received the top prizes in children’s literature.
Stead’s intricate, time-traveling narrative set in 1970s Manhattan, which was inspired in part by Madeleine L’Engle’s “A Wrinkle in Time,” won the John Newbery Medal for best children’s book. The Randolph Caldecott prize for picture books was given to Pinkney’s wordless telling of the classic Aesop fable.
The awards were announced Monday in Boston at the American Library Association’s annual midwinter meeting.
