The 2015 Youth Media Awards.

I'm sure you've already seen all of the lists of winners and so on, but! I'm going to post a few things/thoughts/tweets anyway.

This was the first Midwinter conference I've actually managed to attend—I know, right?—and so I was understandably pretty lathered up before the awards even started:

Excited for the YMAs to start! #alamw15 pic.twitter.com/dcnB37ZyWk

— Leila Roy (@bkshelvesofdoom) February 2, 2015

And yes, there was crying:

Due to Sharon Draper and Gabi, I am now full-on crying. #alayma

— Leila Roy (@bkshelvesofdoom) February 2, 2015

SO. MUCH. CRYING:

After Isabel's speech, @bkshelvesofdoom and I couldn't talk to each other because we both kept crying.

— Faythe (@farre) February 2, 2015

Not to mention a good amount of delirious laughter and joy:

Aaaaahhhhhh! @abramskids @CeceBellBooks pic.twitter.com/FOFUJKC5LL

— Susan Van Metre (@skeetermeeter) February 2, 2015

All I'm saying is that @CeceBellBooks had BETTER knock me out of the top spot on next week's NYT Bestseller List. I'm counting on you guys.

— Raina Telgemeier (@goraina) February 2, 2015

Yay Sharon Draper won the Edwards!!! She deserved it so much. Forged by Fire saved my teaching career. #ALAyma

— Gabriel Graña (@GGrana6) February 2, 2015

Not the first to point this out, but it still makes me smile: THIS ONE SUMMER is the first Caldecott winner with the word “blowjob” in it.

— Barry Goldblatt (@barrygoldblatt) February 3, 2015

Donald Crews wins the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award! So distinguished, so deserved! #alayma pic.twitter.com/lZ6Pd3ruzX

— Arika Dickens (@LibrarianArika) February 2, 2015

Any self-respecting 3 year old should be thrilled out of their mind that Donald Crews is getting props. #ALAyma

— Cristin Stickles (@ThtsWhatSheRead) February 2, 2015

This is a little of what is was like to get the call that your book has one The 2015 Newbery Medal, but you... http://t.co/OfR50RjgqY

— Kwame Alexander (@kwamealexander) February 2, 2015

So happy to finally experience it in person.

Links to winners and honors that I've covered:

The Crossover, by Kwame Alexander (Newbery medal, CSK honor)

El Deafo, by Cece Bell (Newbery honor)

This One Summer, by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki (Caldecott honor, Printz honor)

I'll Give You the Sun, by Jandy Nelson (Printz medal, Stonewall honor)

Gabi: A Girl in Pieces, by Isabel Quintero (Morris winner)

Huh. Apparently I read a LOT more than I wrote about last year, sigh.

But anyway, GABI, YAAAAAAAAAAAAY MUPPET FLAIL PEANUTS DANCE FREAK OUT!!!!