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ALA Award Winners

From: Megan Schliesman <Schliesman>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 15:25:18 -0600

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, January 12, 1998

1998 ALSC John Newbery Medal (distinguished writing for children)

        Out of the Dust: A Novel by Karen Hesse (Scholastic, 1997; ISBN 0Y06080-9; $15.95)

        1998 ALSC John Newbery Honor Books
        
        Lily*s Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff (Delacorte Press, 1997; ISBN 0852142-2; $14.95)

        Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (HarperCollinsPublishers, 1997; ISBN 07510-3; $14.95)

        Wringer by Jerry Spinelli (Joanna Cotler/HarperCollinsPublishers, 1997; ISBN 04913-7; $14.95)

1998 ALSC Randolph Caldecott Award (distinguished illustration for children)

        Rapunzel retold and illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky (Dutton Children*s Books, 1997; ISBN 0R5E607-4; $16.99)
        
        1998 ALSC Randolph Caldecott Honor Books
  
        Harlem: a Poem illustrated by Christopher Myers, written by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic, 1997; ISBN 0Y0T340-7;$16.95)

        The Gardener illustrated by David Small, written by Sarah Stewart (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997; ISBN 0742517-0;$15.00)

        There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly written and illustrated by Simms Taback (Viking, 1997; ISBN 0g0?939-2; $14.99)

1998 SRRT Coretta Scott King Author Award (outstanding writing by an African-American author)

        Forged by Fire by Sharon M. Draper (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1997; ISBN 0h9?699-X; $16.00)

        1998 SRRT Coretta Scott King Author Honor Books

        I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: the Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl by Joyce Hansen (Scholastic, 1997; ISBN 0Y0?913-1; $9.95)

        Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement by James Haskins (Hyperion Books for Children, 1997; ISBN 0x68!40-X;
$14.95)
         1998 SRRT Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award (outstanding illustrations by an African-American artist)

        In Daddy*s Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers illustrated by Javaka Steptoe (Lee & Low, 1997; ISBN 1?00001-8;
$15.95)

        1998 SRRT Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books

        Ashley Bryan*s ABC of African American Poetry by Ashley Bryan (A Jean Karl Book/Atheneum Books for Young Readers,1997; ISBN 0h9?209-4; $16.00)

        The Hunterman and the Crocodile: A West African Folktale by Baba Wagu? Diakit? (Scholastic, 1997; ISBN 0Y0?828-0;$15.95)

        Harlem: a Poem illustrated by Christopher Myers, written by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic, 1997; ISBN 0Y0T340-7;$16.95)

         1998 ALSC Mildred L. Batchelder Award (given to the publisher of the outstanding translated book)

        Henry Holt for publishing The Robber and Me by Josef Holub. Translated from the German by Elizabeth D.Crawford. (U.S. edition: Henry Holt, 1997; ISBN 0?50U99-1; $16.95)

        1998 Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Books

        Viking for publishing Nero Corleone: a Cat*s Story by Elke Heidenreich. Translated from the German by Doris Orgel. Illustrated by Quint Buchholz. (U.S. edition: Viking, 1997; ISBN 0g0?395-0;
$15.99)

        Scholastic for publishing Hostage to War: a True Story by Tatjana Wassiljewa. Translated from the German translation ofthe original Russian by Anna Trenter. (U.S. edition: Scholastic, 1997; ISBN 0Y0446-9; $15.95)

1998 ALSC/REFORMA Pura Belpr? Author Award (outstanding writing by a Latino author)

        Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida by Victor Martinez (Joanna Cotler/HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996; ISBN 06704-6; $14.95)

        1998 ALSC/REFORMA Pura Belpr? Author Honor Books

        Laughing Tomatoes and other Spring Poems/Jitomates Risue?os y otros poemas de primavera by Francisco X. Alarc?n, illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez (Children*s Book Press, 1997; ISBN 0?2399-1;
$15.95)

        Spirits of the High Mesa by Floyd Martinez (Arte P?blico, 1997; ISBN 1U8858-4; $7.95)

1998 ALSC/REFORMA Pura Belpr? Illustrator Award (outstanding illustration by a Latino artist)

        Snapshots from the Wedding illustrated by Stephanie Garcia, written by Gary Soto (G.P. Putnam*s Sons, 1997; ISBN 099"808-X;
$15.95)

        1998 ALSC/REFORMA Pura Belpr? Illustrator Honor Books

        In My Family/En Mi Familia written and illustrated by Carmen Lomas Garza, English translation by Francisco X.Alarc?n (Children*s Book Press, 1996; ISBN 0?2398-3; $15.95)

        The Golden Flower: a Taino Myth from Puerto Rico illustrated by Enrique O. S?nchez, written by Nina Jaffe (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1996; ISBN 0h9?469-5; $16.00)

        Gathering the Sun: an Alphabet in Spanish and English illustrated by Sim?n Silva, written by Alma Flor Ada, English translation by Rosa Zubizarreta (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1997; ISBN 0h8903-5; $16.00)

1998 ALSC Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal (outstanding contribution to literature for children)

        Russell Freedman for his entire body of work

1999 ALSC May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecturer (annual lecture by an outstanding author, critic, librarian, historian or teacher of children's literature)

        Lillian N. Gerhardt
                 1998 YALSA and School Library Journal Margaret A. Edwards Award (annual award to an author of outstanding young adult books)

        Madeline L*Engle for the Austin Family Series (including Meet the Austins and A Ring of Endless Light) and the Time Fantasy Series
(including A Wrinkle in Time and A Swiftly Tilting Planet)

1998 Carnegie Medal for Video

        Willa: An American Snow White. Produced and directed by Tom Davenport. Distrbuted by Davenport Films.

        
                 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) 1998 ALA/ALSC Notable Children's Books, 2) 1998 ALA/YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, and 3) 1998 ALA/YALSA Quick Picts (Recommended 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)

Cooperative Children*s Book Center School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison 600 N. Park St., Room 4290 Madison, WI 53706 608&3720/608&2I33 (fax) ccbcinfo at mail.soemadison.wisc.edu
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