When the American Library Association today announced its youth media awards, among the Caldecott and Newbery and Carnegie award winners was a retired University of South Florida professor. This year's recipient of the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Practitioner Award, given for lifetime achievement in advocacy for children and youth, is Henrietta Mays Smith. Dr. Smith was the first African-American faculty member of USF's School of Library and Information Science, retiring in 1993 as professor emerita. 

Among the other ALA awards announced today in San Diego:

John Newbery Medla for outstanding contribution to children's literature: Moon Over Manifest (Delacorte), Clare Vanderpool

Randolph Caldecott Medal for distinguished American picture book for children: A Sick Day for Amos McGee (Roaring Brook), illustrated by Erin E. Stead

Michael L. Printz Award for literature written for young adults: Ship Breaker (Little, Brown), Paolo Bacigalupi

Coretta Scott King Award for an African-American author of outstanding books for children and young adults: One Crazy Summer (Amistad) by Rita Williams-Garcia

Coretta Scott King Award for an African-American illustrator of outstanding books for children and young adults: Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave (Little, Brown), illustrated by Bryan Collier

Margaret A. Edwards Award for an author's body of work that makes a significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature: Sir Terry Pratchett

For a complete list of winners, click here.