The 2009 American Library Association book award winners are out! Congratulations to all the award and honor recipients! I am providing the titles of the winners and not the honors. Please follow the appropriate links to learn more about the books!
John Newbery Award
The Graveyard Book. Written by Neil Gaiman and Illus. by Dave McKean. HaperCollins, 2008.
Randolph Caldecott Award
The House in the Night. Illus. by Beth Krommes and written my Susan Marie Swanson. Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
Midlred L. Batchelder Award
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit. Written by Nahoko Uehashi and Translated from Japanese by Cathy Hirano and Illus. by Yuko Shimizu. Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic.
Theordor Suess Geisel Award
Are You Ready To Play Outside? Written by Mo Willems. Hyperion/Disney Group, 2008.
Pura Belpré Author Award
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom. Written by Margarita Engle. Henry Holt, 2008.
Pura Belpré Illustrator Award
Just in Case: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet Book. Written by Yuyi Morales. Roaring Book Press, 2008.
Laura Ingalls Wilder Award
Ashely Bryan
Odyssey Award
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Written and narrated by Sherman Alexie, produced by Recorded Books, LLC
Michael L. Printz Award
Jellicoe Road. Written by Melina Marchetta. U.S. edition: HarperTeen, 2008.
Margaret A. Edwards Award
Laurie Halse Anderson for Fever 1793, Catalyst and Speak.
William C. Morris Award
A Curse as Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce. Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastics, 2008.
Coretta Scott King Author Award
We Are the Ship: the Story of Negro League Baseball. Written by Kadir Nelson. Jump at the Sun/Hyperion, 2008.
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award
The Blacker the Berry. Illus. by Floyd Cooper. Written by Joyce Carol Thomas. Amistad.HarperCollins, 2008.
Sibert Medal
We Are the Ship: the Story of Negro League Baseball. Written by Kadir Nelson. Jump at the Sun/Hyperion, 2008.
And finally….
The Schneider Family Book Award
Young Children:
Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum. Written and Illus. by Robert Andrew Parker. Schwartz & Wade Books/Random House.
Middle-School:
Waiting for Normal. Written by Leslie Connor. HarperCollins Chilrdren’s.
Teens:
Jerk, California. Written Jonathan Friesen. Speak/Penguin Group.
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