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ALA Award Winners

From: Megan Schliesman <Schliesman>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 10:54:00 -600

A Cooperative Children's Book Center

 BRIEF LISTING OF CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

 Announced at the American Library Association Conference
 February, 1997

1997 ALSC John Newbery Medal (distinguished writing for children)

 A View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (Atheneum, 1996; ISBN 0h9?993-X; $16.00)

 1997 ALSC John Newbery Honor Books

 A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer (Orchard Books, 1996; ISBN 0S1889-8; $19.95)

 The Moorchild by Eloise McGraw (McElderry Books, 1996; ISBN 0h9?654-X; $16.00)

 The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow, 1996; ISBN 0h8627-9; $15.00)

 Belle Prater*s Boy by Ruth White (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996; ISBN 0740668-0; $16.00)


1997 ALSC Randolph Caldecott Award (distinguished illustration for children)

 Golem by David Wisniewski (Clarion, 1996; ISBN 095r618-2;
$15.95)

 1997 ALSC Randolph Caldecott Honor Books
  
 Hush! illustrated by Holly Meade, written by Minfong Ho (Orchard, 1996; ISBN 0S1 500-2; $15.95)

 The Graphic Alphabet by David Pelletier (Orchard, 1996; ISBN 0S16001-6; $17.95)

 The Paperboy by Dav Pilkey (Orchard, 1996; ISBN 0S1 506-1;
$14.95)

 The Starry Messenger by Peter S?s (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996; ISBN 0747191-1; $16.00)


  1997 SRRT Coretta Scott King Author Award (outstanding writing by a black author)

 Slam! by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic, 1996; ISBN 0Y0H667-5;
$15.95)

 1997 SRRT Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book

 Rebels Against Slavery: American slave revolts by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack (Scholastic, 1996; ISBN 0Y0E735-7; $14.95)


1997 SRRT Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award (outstanding illustrations by a black artist)

 Minty by Jerry Pinkney (Dial, 1996; ISBN 0?3789-6; $16.99)

 

 1997 SRRT Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books

 The Palm of my Heart: poetry by African American children illustrated by Gregory Christie, edited by Davida Adedjouma (Lee & Low, 1996; ISBN 1?0000A-5; $15.95)
 
 Neeny Coming, Neeny Going illustrated by Synthia Saint James, written by Karen English (Bridgewater Books, 1996; ISBN 0?67796-7; $14.95)

 Running the Road to ABC illustrated by Reynold Ruffins, written by Deniz? Lauture (Simon & Schuster, 1996; ISBN 0h9?507-1;
$16.00)


1997 ALSC Mildred L. Batchelder Award (the publisher of the outstanding translated book)
  
 Farrar Straus Giroux for publishing The Friends by Kazumi Yumoto. Translated from the Japanese by Cathy Hirano (U.S. edition: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996; ISBN 0742460-3; $15.95)
 

  1998 ALSC May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecturer (annual lecture by an outstanding author, critic, librarian, historian or teacher of children's literature)

 Susan Hirschman

  
  1997 YALSA Margaret A. Edwards Award (formerly the YASD Author Achievement Award) (annual award to an author of outstanding young adult books)

 Gary Paulsen for:
  
  Dancing Carl (Bradbury Press, 1983)
  The Crossing (Orchard Books, 1987)
  Hatchet (Bradbury Press, 1987)
  The Winter Room (Orchard Books, 1989)
  Woodsong (Bradbury Press, 1990)
   1997 Carnegie Medal for Video

 Notes Alive! The day you were born. Production Company What a Gal.
  
   Complete lists of Newbery, Caldecott, Batchelder and Coretta Scott King Award books from earlier years with details about each award are available from the CCBC, as are lists of the 1) 1997 ALA/ALSC Notable Children's Books, 2) 1997 ALA/YASD Best Books for Young Adults, and 3) 1997 ALA/YASD Best Books for Reluctant Young Adult Readers. Ask for these at the CCBC, or mail a self?dressed, $.32 stamped #10 envelope for each cumulative list to: Cooperative Children's Book Center, 4290 Helen C. White Hall, 600 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706.

Single copies of the annual annotated lists are available free annually beginning each spring from the Publications Department of the American Library Association, 50 E. Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611 (1?0T5$33).

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Received on Mon 17 Feb 1997 10:54:00 AM CST