ALA 2022 Conference Resource Center

We’re so excited to see our librarian friends on June 23-28 in Washington D.C.!

What’s inside our ALA Resource Center:
  • Make the most of your ALA experience + meet your favorite authors & illustrators!
    Check our ALA schedule for a full list of in-person author programs and book signings.
  • We’ve collected our digital resources for you in this handy resource center!
    Download our digital catalogs, request digital preview copies, and fill out our checklist survey for your chance to win a collection of free books for your library!
  • Not attending ALA?
    You can still download digital resources, request preview copies, and more!

Fill out our digital checklist survey!

We’d love to learn more about you and your library!

Fill out our quick digital checklist survey receive curated book recommendations, review our digital catalogs, request digital preview copies, and find more resources.

Plus, you’ll be entered for your chance to win a collection of books for your library!

Fill out the ALA Digital Checklist survey here
+ enter for a chance to win books!

MacKids ALA 2022 Schedule:
Author Programs & Book Signings

Download our flyer for a full list of MCPG author signings at ALA 2022!

View our full schedule of authors events below,
including programs with Angeline Boulley, Carole Lindstrom, Michaela Goade, Angela Joy, Janelle Washington, Jas Hammonds, Claribel Ortega, Rose Bousamra, Cory Anderson, Amber McBride, R.L. Stine, Steve Sheinkin, Ann Xu, Judy I. Lin, Lizz Huerta, Julian Randall, Ariel Henley, Susie Jaramillo, Angela Dominguez, and Adrianna Cuevas.

Click to expand: View our full schedule of MCPG author events here!
Friday, June 24th

8:00 – 10:00pm
Booklist and YALSA Present: The 2022 Michael L. Printz Awards
Featuring Angeline Boulley, author of the 2022 Printz Medal Winner, Firekeeper’s Daughter
Location: Renaissance, Potomac Ballroom Salon 1
This is a ticketed event

Saturday, June 25th

10:30 – 11:20am
Activism in Picture Books
Featuring Carole Lindstrom and Michaela Goade (We are Water Protectors) and Angela Joy and Janelle Washington (Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement)
Location: Exhibit Hall, The Look of Books Stage

10:30 – 11:20am
Fiction, Community, and Activism: How YA Depicts the “Real Lives” of Teens
Featuring Jas Hammonds (We Deserve Monuments)
Location: Exhibit Hall, Pop Top Stage

11:00am – 12:00pm
Being Yourself: Identity and Coming of Age in Comics
Featuring Claribel Ortega and Rose Bousamra (Frizzy)
Location: Washington Convention Center, 145B

11:30am – 12:20pm
Buzz About Books with Bloomsbury Children’s Books, Disney, HarperCollins Children’s Books, and Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group
Featuring Senior Marketing Manager Kristen Luby
Location: Exhibit Hall, Book Buzz Stage

2:00 – 4:00pm
GNCRT Presents: Magical Comics Tea 2022
Featuring Claribel Ortega and Rose Bousamra (Frizzy)
Location: Marriott Marquis, Archives
This is a ticketed event

3:30 – 4:20pm
Introducing the William C. Morris Award Winner and Finalists
Featuring Cory Anderson (What Beauty There Is), Angeline Boulley (Firekeeper’s Daughter), and Amber McBride (Me (Moth))
Location: Exhibit Hall, Chapter One Stage

4:00 – 5:00pm
R.L. Stine: Conference Speaker
Featuring R.L. Stine (Stinetinglers)
Location: Washington Convention Center, Ballroom ABC

4:30 – 6:30pm
Newbery 100 Celebration!
Featuring Steve Sheinkin (Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown)
Location: Marriott Marquis, Independence Salons E F G H

6:30 – 9:30pm
APALA Literature Awards Banquet
Featuring Ann Xu (Shadow Life), winner of the APALA for Adult Fiction
Location: Asia Nine, 915 E Street NW
This is a ticketed event

Sunday, June 26th

7:00 – 10:00am
53rd Annual Coretta Scott King Book Awards Breakfast
Featuring Amber McBride (Me (Moth))
Location: Renaissance, Potomac Ballroom

9:00 – 10:00am
YA Authors Coffee Klatch
Featuring Cory Anderson (What Beauty There Is), Angeline Boulley (Firekeeper’s Daughter), and Judy I. Lin (A Magic Steeped in Poison)
Location: Renaissance, Anacostia Ballroom
This is a ticketed event

1:30 – 2:20pm
New Voices in YA: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, and More
Featuring Jas Hammonds (We Deserve Monuments), Lizz Huerta (The Lost Dreamer), Judy I. Lin (A Magic Steeped in Poison), and Julian Randall (Pilar Ramirez and the Escape from Zafa)
Location: Exhibit Hall, Chapter One Stage

3:30 – 4:00pm
ALA Awards Presentation
Featuring Ariel Henley, author of 2022 Schneider Family Book Award Honor Book A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome
Location: Washington Convention Center, Ballroom ABC

3:30 – 4:20pm
Build your Spanish Language Library
Featuring Adrianna Cuevas (Con Cuba en el bolsillo / Cuba in my Pocket), Angela Dominguez (How Are You? / ¿Cómo estás?), and Susie Jaramillo (Skeletina y el Entremundo / Skeletina and the In-Between World)
Location: Exhibit Hall, Diversity in Publishing Stage

Monday, June 27th

8:00 – 10:30am
2022 ALSC Awards
Featuring Steve Sheinkin author of the 2022 Sibert Book Award Honor Book, Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown)
Location: Washington Convention Center, 207A

1:00 – 2:30pm
ALSC President’s Program: Boundaries Be Gone! Using Stories to Intersect and Connect
Featuring Michaela Goade, winner of the 2021 Caldecott Medal for We Are Water Protectors
Location: Washington Convention Center, 146B

Click the covers below to learn more about these books and authors you can meet at ALA!

ALA Youth Media Award Winners

We’re celebrating our 2022 ALA Youth Media Award Winners! Learn more about these must read, award-winning books.

MacKids Digital Catalogs

Celebrate BIPOC Voices and expand your inclusive collection!
Download our Latinx Voices catalog, Black Voices catalog, Asian and Asian American Voices catalog, LGBTQ Voices catalog here!

Visit our digital catalog page to find our Edelweiss digital catalogs.

RSVP for our Fall Preview

Want to learn even more about our new fall books?
RSVP for our Fall 2022 Preview, featuring special guests Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders (A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington), Dan Gemeinhart (The Midnight Children), Jas Hammonds (We Deserve Monuments), Tae Keller (Mihi Ever After), and Aiden Thomas (The Sunbearer Trials)

2022 Stars You Can’t Miss!

Does your collection include the top-reviewed books of 2022?
Browse our round-up of starred reviews!

Read & Share Frequently Challenged Books

Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group stands against censorship, and in support of the librarians and teachers who are doing their part to share a love of reading with their students. We believe that all readers deserve access to an inclusive selection of titles and we are committed to working with our authors to reach readers with their stories. Click here to find more resources for sharing challenged books + fighting censorship in your community from the ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom.

More Educator Resources

Click the covers below to download discussion guides and activity kits. Find more guides here!