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[CCBC-Net] ALA award winners

From: Merri Lindgren <mlindgren>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:53:45 -0600

Thanks to those of you who have already started reacting to this morning's ALA book award announcements. Please continue to share your thoughts on any and all of these books and awards through the end of this month. A list of winners and honor books are below, and are also available on the American Library Association website, at http://news.ala.org

John Newbery Medal (distinguished writing for children):

Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins. Greenwillow / HarperCollins, 2005

Newbery Honor Books:
         Whittington by Alan Armstrong. Illustrated by S.D. Schindler. Random House, 2005

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti. Scholastic, Inc., 2005

Princess Academy by Shannon Hale. Bloomsbury, 2005

Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson. Illustrated by Hudson Talbott. Putnam, 2005


Randolph Caldecott Award (distinguished illustration for children):

The Hello, Goodbye Window illustrated by Chris Raschka. Written by Norton Juster. Michael di Capua Books / Hyperion, 2005

Caldecott Honor Books:
         Rosa illustrated by Bryan Collier. Written by Nikki Giovanni. Henry Holt, 2005

Zen Shorts illustrated and written by Jon J Muth. Scholastic Press, 2005

Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride illustrated and written and illustrated by Marjorie Priceman. An Anne Schwartz Book / Atheneum, 2005

\Song of the Water Boatman & Other Pond Poems illustrated by Beckie Prange. Written by Joyce Sidman. Houghton Mifflin, 2005

          Mildred L. Batchelder Award (to the publisher of the outstanding translated book):

Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic, Inc. for An Innocent Soldier by Josef Holub. Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann. U.S. edition: Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic, Inc., 2005

Batchelder Honor Books:

Phaidon Press for Nicholas by Ren? Goscinny. Translated from the French by Anthea Bell. Illustrated by Jean-Jacques Semp?. U.S. edition: Phaidon Press, 2005

Bloomsbury for When I Was a Soldier by Val?rie Zenatti. Translated from the French by Adriana Hunter.
      U.S. edition: Bloomsbury. 2005


Pura Belpr? Author Award (cosponsored with Reforma) (outstanding writing by a Latino author):

The Tequila Worm by Viola Canales. Wendy Lamb Books / Random House, 2005

Pura Belpr? Author Honor Books:

Cesar: ?S?, Se Puede! Yes, We Can by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand. Illustrated by David Diaz. Marshall Cavendish, 2004
         Do?a Flor: A Tall Tale about a Giant Woman with a Great Big Heart by Pat Mora. Illustrated by Raul Col?n. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005

Becoming Naomi Le?n by Pam Mu?oz Ryan. Scholastic Press, 2004
                

Pura Belpr? Illustrator Award (cosponsored with ALA/Reforma) (outstanding illustrations by a Latino artist):

Do?a Flor: A Tall Tale about a Giant Woman with a Great Big Heart by Pat Mora. Illustrated by Raul Col?n. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005

Pura Belpr? Illustrator Honor Books:

Arrorr?, Mi Ni?o: Latino Lullabies and Gentle Games illustrated and selected by Lulu Delacre. Lee & Low, 2004

Cesar: ?S?, Se Puede! Yes, We Can illustrated by David Diaz. Written by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand. Marshall Cavendish, 2004

My Name is Celia: The Life of Celia Cruz / Me llamo Celia: la vida de Celia Cruz illustrated by Rafael L?pez. Written by Monica Brown. Luna Rising / Rising Moon, 2004
        

Theodor Seuss Geisel Award (author and illustrator of distinguished beginning reader book):

Henry and Mudge and the Great Grandpas by Cynthia Rylant. Illustrated by Su?ie Stevenson. Simon & Schuster, 2005

Geisel Honor Books:

Hi! Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold. Cartwheel / Scholastic, Inc., 2005

A Splendid Friend, Indeed by Suzanne Bloom. Boyds Mills Press, 2005

Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa by Erica Silverman. Illustrated by Betsy Lewin. Harcourt, 2005

Amanda Pig and the Really Hot Day by Jean van Leeuwen. Illustrated by Ann Schweninger. Dial, 2005
        

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award (outstanding book of information):

Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley by Sally M. Walker. Carolrhoda, 2005

Sibert Honor Book:

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti. Scholastic Nonfiction / Scholastic, Inc., 2005
        

Michael L. Printz Award (literary excellence in young adult literature):

Looking for Alaska by John Green. Dutton, 2005

Printz Honor Books:

Black Juice by Margo Lanagan. Eos / HarperCollins, 2005

I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak. U.S. edition: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005

John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth by Elizabeth Partridge. Viking, 2005

A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson. Illustrated by Philippe Lardy. Houghton Mifflin, 2005



Coretta Scott King Author Award (outstanding writing by an African American author):

Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue by Julius Lester. Jump at the Sun / Hyperion, 2005

Coretta Scott King Author Honor Books:

Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl by Tonya Bolden. Abrams, 2005

Dark Sons by Nikki Grimes. Jump at the Sun / Hyperion, 2005

A Wreath for Emmett Till written by Marilyn Nelson. Illustrated by Philippe Lardy. Houghton Mifflin, 2005
          Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award (outstanding illustrations by an African American artist):

Rosa illustrated by Bryan Collier. Written by Nikki Giovanni. Henry Holt, 2005

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book:
         Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. Written by Mary Williams. Lee & Low, 2005
         Coretta Scott King John Steptoe/New Talent (Author) Award

Jimi & Me written by Jaime Adoff. Jump at the Sun / Hyperion, 2005


Schneider Family Book Award (to an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences)

Children's Book: Dad, Jackie, and Me written by Myron Uhlberg. Illustrated by Colin Bootman. Peachtree, 2005

Middle School Book: Tending to Grace written by Kimberly Newton Fusco. Knopf, 2004

High School Book: Under the Wolf, Under the Dog written by Adam Rapp. Candlewick, 2004

May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecturer (lecture to be given in 2007 by an outstanding author, critic, librarian, historian, or teacher of children's literature):

Kevin Henkes


Margaret A. Edwards Award (annual award to an author of outstanding young adult books):

Jacqueline Woodson


Andrew Carnegie Medal (excellence in children's video):

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers. Produced by Michael Sporn. Weston Woods Studios.


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
Received on Mon 23 Jan 2006 12:53:45 PM CST