The song was the first track recorded during the sessions for the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), and was intended for inclusion on the album. Instead, with the group under record-company pressure to release a single, it was issued in February 1967 as a double A-side with  Penny Lane .
Nebula Award Winners and Hugo Award Winners for Best Novel. The Hugo Awards and the Nebula Awards are the traditional yardsticks for fantasy and science fiction writing and have been for decades. Winners are guaranteed a place in literary history and first editions of these acclaimed novels have become highly collectible.
Caldecott Medal. Given each year by the American Library Association for the âmost distinguished picture bookâ (though the medal itself is given to the illustrator), this is one of the two most important awards in all of American childrenâs literature, the other being the Newbery Medal.