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ALA Award Winners

From: Merri Lindgren <mlindgren>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:05:28 -0600

Thanks to Lee and Ellen for turning our thoughts to this week's discussion of the 2005 American Library Assocation's awards, announced earlier this morning. What are your reactions to the winners and honor books listed below?

2005 ALSC John Newbery Medal: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata. Atheneum, 2004.

Newbery Honor Books: Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko. Putnam, 2004. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman. Clarion, 2004. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt. Clarion, 2004.
        

2005 ALSC Randolph Caldecott Award: Kitten's First Full Moon illustrated and written by Kevin Henkes. Greenwillow / HarperCollins, 2004.

Caldecott Honor Books: The Red Book by Barbara Lehman. Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale illustrated and written by Mo Willems. Hyperion, 2004. Coming On Home Soon illustrated by E. B. Lewis. Written by Jacqueline Woodson. Putnam, 2004.


2005 SRRT Coretta Scott King Author Award: Remember: The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison. Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
         Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor Books: Who Am I Without Him? Short Stories About Girls and the Boys in Their Lives by Sharon G. Flake. Jump at the Sun / Hyperion, 2004. The Legend of Buddy Bush by Shelia P. Moses. Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2004. Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem by Marilyn Nelson. Notes and annotations by Pamela Espeland. Front Street, 2004.


2005 SRRT Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award: ellington was not a street illustrated by Kadir Nelson. Written by Ntozake Shange. Simon & Schuster, 2004.

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Honor Books: The People Could Fly: The Picture Book illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. Written by Virginia Hamilton. Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. God Bless the Child illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. Written by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr. Amistad / HarperCollins, 2004.


2005 SRRT Coretta Scott King John Steptoe/New Talent (Author) Award: Missy Violet & Me by Barbara Hathaway. Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

2005 SRRT Coretta Scott King John Steptoe/New Talent (Illustrator) Award: Jazzy Miz Mozetta illustrated by Frank Morrison. Written by Brenda C. Roberts. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.


2005 ALSC Mildred L. Batchelder Award: Delacorte Press for The Shadows of Ghadames by Jo?lle Stolz. Translated from the French by Catherine Temerson. U.S. edition: Delacorte Press, 2004.

Batchelder Honor Books: Farrar, Straus and Giroux for The Crow-Girl written by Bodil Bredsdorff. Translated from the Dutch by Faith Ingwersen. U.S. edition: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. Richard Jackson Books / Atheneum for Daniel Half Human: And the Good Nazi written by David Chotjewicz. Translated from the German by Doris Orgel. U.S. edition: A Richard Jackson Book / Atheneum, 2004.


2005 ALSC Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award: The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman. Clarion, 2004.

Sibert Award Honor Books: Walt Whitman: Words for America by Barbara Kerley. Illustrated by Brian Selznick. Scholastic Press, 2004. The Tarantula Scientist by Sy Montgomery. Photographs by Nic Bishop. Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing by James Rumford. Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

         2005 YALSA Michael L. Printz Award: How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff. Wendy Lamb Books / Random House, 2004.

Printz Award Honor Books: Airborn by Kenneth Oppel. Eos / HarperCollins, 2004. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt. Clarion, 2004. Chanda's Secrets by Allan Stratton. Annick Press, 2004.


2005 Schneider Family Book Award: Grade school winner: My Pal, Victor / Mi amigo, V?ctor by Diane Gonzales Bertrand. Illustrated by Robert L. Sweetland. Translated by Eida de la Vega. Raven Tree Press, 2004 Middle school winner: Becoming Naomi Le?n by Pam Mu?oz Ryan. Scholastic Press, 2004. Teen winner: My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir by Samantha Abeel. Orchard / Scholastic, 2003.



Merri Lindgren, Librarian mlindgren at education.wisc.edu Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ A Library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Madison
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