From: Ellen Popit <epopit>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:38:48 -0600

2005 American Library Association


Award Winners in Children?s and Young Adult Literature


Newbery Medal


Kira-Kira, by Cynthia Kadohata, Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster


Newbery Honor Books


Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by Gary D. Schmidt, Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Company

Al Capone Does My Shirts, by Gennifer Choldenko, G.P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin Young Readers Group

The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights, by Russell Freedman, Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Company


Caldecott Medal


Kitten's First Full Moon, by Kevin Henkes, Greenwillow Books/HarperCollinsPublishers


Caldecott Honor Books


The Red Book, by Barbara Lehman, Houghton Mifflin Company

Coming on Home Soon, by illustrated by E.B. Lewis, written by Jacqueline Woodson, G.P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin Young Readers Group

Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, by Mo Willems, Hyperion Books for Children


Batchelder Award (Honoring a Translated Work)


Delacorte Press/Random House Children's Books, publisher of The Shadows of Ghadames , by Jo?lle Stolz, translated from the French by Catherine Temerson


Batchelder Honor Book


Farrar Straus Giroux, publisher of The Crow-Girl: The Children of Crow Cove, by Bodil Bredsdorff, translated from the Danish by Faith Ingwersen

A Richard Jackson Book, Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, publisher of Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi, by David Chotjewitz, translated from the German by Doris Orgel


Sibert Medal (Honoring a Non-Fiction Work)


The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights, by Russell Freedman, Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Company


Sibert Honor Books


Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing, by James Rumford, translated into Cherokee by Anna Sixkiller Huckaby, Houghton Mifflin Company

The Tarantula Scientist, by Sy Montgomery, photographs by Nic Bishop, Houghton Mifflin Company

Walt Whitman: Words for America, by Barbara Kerley, illustrated by Brian Selznick, Scholastic Press/Scholastic Inc.


Wilder Medal (Lifetime Achievement in the Field of Children?s Literature)


Laurence Yep, award-winning author of books for young people


Carnegie Medal (Media Award)


Paul R. Gagne and Melissa Reilly of Weston Woods Studios, producers of "The Dot,? in association with FableVision, based on the book by Peter H. Reynolds


2006 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecturer


Russell Freedman, renowned author of outstanding nonfiction books for children and adults

2005 Michael L. Printz Award (for Excellence in Young Adult Literature)

how I live now by Meg Rosoff, Wendy Lamb Books


Printz Honor Books


Airborn by Kenneth Oppel, EOS/Harper Collins

Chanda?s Secrets by Allan Stratton, Annick Press

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt, Clarion Books


Maragaret A. Edwards Award (Lifetime Achievement in Young Adult Literature)


Francesca Lia Block


Coretta Scott King Award (For an author recognizing the African-American Experience)

Remember: The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison, Houghton Mifflin


Coretta Scott King Award, Author Honor Books


The Legend of Buddy Bush by Sheila P. Moses, Margaret K. McElderry

Who Am I Without Him? By Sharon G. Flake, Jump at the Sun/Hyperion

Fortune?s Bones: The Manumission Requiem by Marilyn Nelson, Front Street

Coretta Scott King Award (For an Illustrator recognizing the African-American Experience)

Ellington Was Not a Street illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Notzake Shange, Simon and Schuster


Coretta Scott King, Illustrator Honor Books


God Bless the Child, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, written by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr., Amistad/Harper Collins

The People Could Fly: The Picture Book, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon, written by Virginia Hamilton, Alfred A. Knopf


Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award


Missy Violet and Me by Barbara Hathaway, Houghton Mifflin (author)

Jazzy Miz Mozetta illustrated by Frank Morrison, written by Brenda Roberts, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (illustrator)
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