The weight of community codes, family dynamic, tradition. Not just the weight of gun violence, but the weight of anger bearing down on fragile backs. Long Way Down is meant to help us all recognize the weight of it. knew his death had changed chemically, and that could do, perhaps, what never knew could do before. Speaking of the moment, he said he and his friends felt "an anger, a pain, like a cancer metastasizing by the second, spreading around and through. In 2003 when Reynolds was 19, he learned that a friend had been murdered. Reynolds held the idea for Long Way Down for years before finally writing it. The book was longlisted for the National Book Award and was named a Printz Honor Book, Coretta Scott King Honor Book, and Newbery Medal Honor Book, alongside other awards and positive reviews.Ī graphic novel edition of the book, illustrated by Danica Novgorodoff, was published October 13, 2020. Long Way Down is a young adult novel in verse by Jason Reynolds, published October 24, 2017, by Atheneum Books. There is no single way to tell a story, and graphic novels are one fascinating way to express emotions and ideas that can’t be put into words alone.”įull details about the awards and what it means to the winners is available on the CILIP Yoto Carnegie and Kate Greenaway web pages.Printz Honor Book, Coretta Scott King author award, Newbery Honor You wouldn’t discourage a kid from going to a museum to look at paintings or sculptures or photography, so why would you tell them not to look at artwork in a book? Images are visceral in a different way than text, and when an artwork moves you, it’s speaking to you in a different language than words. The book doesn’t preach, but it asks readers, what do you feel, and what would you do? ….graphic novels are also an extraordinary, complex, versatile medium in themselves, not dumbed down versions of “real” books. Working on Long Way Down, interpreting Jason Reynolds’ beautiful text into images, was a dream project for me and its own reward, but I am thrilled to find that the graphic novel has resonated with readers as well….Through the illustrations, I wanted to show…emotional torment, to make…internal feelings come alive on the page. Illustrator Danica Novgorodoff said “ I am honoured and humbled to receive the Yoto Kate Greenaway Medal.Here are an extract from the announcement of the winners: This award is judged by children’s librarians for an outstanding book in terms of illustration for children and young people. The winner of the 2022 Yoto Kate Greenaway medal is Danica Novgorodoff’s illustrated edition of Jason Reynold’s 2019 book ‘Long Way Down’.
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