Monday, January 17, 2005
The Children's Lit Awards were announced today!
The winners have been announced! Pay attention, because these are the books your teachers will be assigning in the future!
The winner of the 2005 Caldecott Medal is Kevin Henkes, author and illustrator of Kitten's First Full Moon.
The Caldecott Honor winners are Barbara Lehman who wrote and illustrated The Red Book, E. B. Lewis who illustrated Coming On Home Soon (written by the equally amazing Jacqueline Woodson), and Mo Willems who wrote and illustrated Knuffle Bunny.
The winner of the 2005 Newbery Medal is Cynthia Kadohata for Kira-Kira.
The Newbery Honor winners are Gary D. Schmidt for Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, Gennifer Choldenko for Al Capone Does My Shirts, and Russell Freedman for The Voice That Challenged a Nation : Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights.
The winner of the 2005 Printz Medal is Meg Rosoff for how I live now.
The Printz Honor winners are Kenneth Oppel for Airborn, Gary D. Schmidt for Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, and Allan Stratton for Chanda’s Secrets.
The winner of the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe New Talent Author Award is Barbara Hathaway for Missy Violet and Me.
The winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award is Toni Morrison for Remember : The Journey to School Integration.
The Coretta Scott King Author Honor books are The Legend of Buddy Bush by Sheila P. Moses, Who Am I Without Him? : Short Stories About Girls and the Boys in Their Lives by Sharon G. Flake, and Fortune’s Bones : The Manumission Requiem by Marilyn Nelson.
The winner of the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award is Frank Morrison for Jazzy Miz Mozetta (written by Brenda C. Roberts).
The winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award is Kadir Nelson for his illustrations of Ellington Was Not a Street (written by Ntozake Shange).
The Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor winners are Jerry Pinkney for illustrating God Bless the Child (written by Billie Holiday), and Leo and Diane Dillon for illustrating The People Could Fly : The Picture Book (written by Virginia Hamilton).
The Siebert Medal went to Russell Freedman for The Voice That Challenged a Nation : Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights..
The Siebert Honor awards went to James Rumford for Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing (translated into Cherokee by Anna Sixkiller Huckaby), Sy Montgomery for The Tarantula Scientist (photographs by Nic Bishop), and Barbara Kerley for Walt Whitman : Words for America (illustrated by Brian Selznick).
The recipient of the Mildred Batchelder Award is Joelle Stolz for The Shadows of Ghadames (translated to English by Catherine Temerson).
The Margaret Batchelder Honor winners are Bodil Bredsdorff for The Crow-Girl : The Children of Crow Cove (translated by Faith Ingwersen) and David Chotjewitz for Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi (translated to English by Doris Orgel).
The Schneider Family Award winner in the picture book category is My Pal, Victor, written by Diane Gonzales Bertrand and illustrated by Robert L. Sweetland. The winner in the middle-school category is Becoming Naomi Leon, by Pam Munoz Ryan. The winner in the teen category is My Thirteenth Winter : a Memoir by Samantha Abeel.
The recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award is Francesca Lia Block.
The Andrew Carnegie Award was won by Weston Woods for The Dot.
Russell Freedman will deliver the 2006 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture.
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal was awarded to Laurence Yep.
Congratulations to all the winners. Look for a special book display (and book list) of these titles at the Grande Prairie Public Library in the days ahead.
NOTE: The Grande Prairie Public Library does not yet have all these titles, but will be adding them to our collection in the days to come.
The winner of the 2005 Caldecott Medal is Kevin Henkes, author and illustrator of Kitten's First Full Moon.
The Caldecott Honor winners are Barbara Lehman who wrote and illustrated The Red Book, E. B. Lewis who illustrated Coming On Home Soon (written by the equally amazing Jacqueline Woodson), and Mo Willems who wrote and illustrated Knuffle Bunny.
The winner of the 2005 Newbery Medal is Cynthia Kadohata for Kira-Kira.
The Newbery Honor winners are Gary D. Schmidt for Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, Gennifer Choldenko for Al Capone Does My Shirts, and Russell Freedman for The Voice That Challenged a Nation : Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights.
The winner of the 2005 Printz Medal is Meg Rosoff for how I live now.
The Printz Honor winners are Kenneth Oppel for Airborn, Gary D. Schmidt for Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, and Allan Stratton for Chanda’s Secrets.
The winner of the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe New Talent Author Award is Barbara Hathaway for Missy Violet and Me.
The winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award is Toni Morrison for Remember : The Journey to School Integration.
The Coretta Scott King Author Honor books are The Legend of Buddy Bush by Sheila P. Moses, Who Am I Without Him? : Short Stories About Girls and the Boys in Their Lives by Sharon G. Flake, and Fortune’s Bones : The Manumission Requiem by Marilyn Nelson.
The winner of the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award is Frank Morrison for Jazzy Miz Mozetta (written by Brenda C. Roberts).
The winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award is Kadir Nelson for his illustrations of Ellington Was Not a Street (written by Ntozake Shange).
The Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor winners are Jerry Pinkney for illustrating God Bless the Child (written by Billie Holiday), and Leo and Diane Dillon for illustrating The People Could Fly : The Picture Book (written by Virginia Hamilton).
The Siebert Medal went to Russell Freedman for The Voice That Challenged a Nation : Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights..
The Siebert Honor awards went to James Rumford for Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing (translated into Cherokee by Anna Sixkiller Huckaby), Sy Montgomery for The Tarantula Scientist (photographs by Nic Bishop), and Barbara Kerley for Walt Whitman : Words for America (illustrated by Brian Selznick).
The recipient of the Mildred Batchelder Award is Joelle Stolz for The Shadows of Ghadames (translated to English by Catherine Temerson).
The Margaret Batchelder Honor winners are Bodil Bredsdorff for The Crow-Girl : The Children of Crow Cove (translated by Faith Ingwersen) and David Chotjewitz for Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi (translated to English by Doris Orgel).
The Schneider Family Award winner in the picture book category is My Pal, Victor, written by Diane Gonzales Bertrand and illustrated by Robert L. Sweetland. The winner in the middle-school category is Becoming Naomi Leon, by Pam Munoz Ryan. The winner in the teen category is My Thirteenth Winter : a Memoir by Samantha Abeel.
The recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award is Francesca Lia Block.
The Andrew Carnegie Award was won by Weston Woods for The Dot.
Russell Freedman will deliver the 2006 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture.
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal was awarded to Laurence Yep.
Congratulations to all the winners. Look for a special book display (and book list) of these titles at the Grande Prairie Public Library in the days ahead.
NOTE: The Grande Prairie Public Library does not yet have all these titles, but will be adding them to our collection in the days to come.
