And the Winners Are… the ALA announces the winners of the Caldecott and Newberry Awards
This just in from the ALA, via the American Booksellers Association: the announcement of this years winners of the Newberry and Caldecott awards are:
Newbery Medal
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, illustrated by Matt Phelan (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson)
Newbery Honor Books
Penny From Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm (Random House)
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson (Delacorte)
Rules by Cynthia Lord (Scholastic)
Caldecott Medal
Flotsam by David Wiesner (Clarion)
Caldecott Honor Books
Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet by David McLimans (Walker)
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Carole Boston Weatherford (Hyperion/Jump at the Sun)
The full and brief announcement is here:
Here are the winners of the 2007 John Newbery and Randolph Caldecott medals, as well as other award winners and honor books, announced today at the 2007 American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in Seattle. Watch for more about the ALA awards in this week’s edition of Bookselling This Week.
Newbery Medal
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, illustrated by Matt Phelan (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson)
Newbery Honor Books
Penny From Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm (Random House)
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson (Delacorte)
Rules by Cynthia Lord (Scholastic)
Caldecott Medal
Flotsam by David Wiesner (Clarion)
Caldecott Honor Books
Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet by David McLimans (Walker)
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Carole Boston Weatherford (Hyperion/Jump at the Sun)
2008 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecturer
David Macaulay
Batchelder Award
Delacorte Press, publisher of The Pull of the Ocean, by Jean-Claude Mourlevat, translated from the French by Y. Maudet
Batchelder Honor Books
Delacorte Press, publisher of The Killer’s Tears, by Anne-Laure Bondoux, translated from the French by Y. Maudet
Hyperion/Miramax, publisher of The Last Dragon, by Silvana De Mari, translated from the Italian by Shaun Whiteside
Carnegie Medal
Mo Willems, author/illustrator, and Weston Woods Studios, producers of Knuffle Bunny
Coretta Scott King Awards
Copper Sun by Sharon Draper (Simon & Schuster/Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, illustrated by Kadir Nelson (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children)
King Author Honor Book
The Road to Paris by Nikki Grimes (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group)
King Illustrator Honor Books
Jazz, illustrated by Christopher Myers, written by Walter Dean Myers (Holiday House) Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes, illustrated by Benny Andrews, edited by David Roessel and Arnold Rampersad (Sterling Publishing)
Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award
Traci L. Jones, author of Standing Against the Wind (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Geisel Medal
Zelda and Ivy: The Runaways, by Laura McGee Kvasnosky (Candlewick)
Geisel Honor Books
Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride, written by Kate DiCamillo and illustrated by Chris Van Dusen (Candlewick)
Move Over, Rover!, written by Karen Beaumont and illustrated by Jane Dyer (Harcourt)
Not a Box, by Antoinette Portis (HarperCollins)
Sibert Medal
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh (Houghton)
Sibert Honor Book
Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement by Ann Bausum (National Geographic)
Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea, written by Sy Montgomery, photos by Nic Bishop (Houghton)
To Dance: A Ballerina’s Graphic Novel, written by Siena Cherson Siegel, illustrated by Mark Siegel (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson and Simon & Schuster/Aladdin)
Wilder Medal
James Marshall
