Here are the American Library Association's 2009 youth media awards winners. The official press release is available on ALA's website.
I'm having trouble getting onto the website at the moment because of the heavy traffic, but I was at the press conference in Denver this morning and was handed a press release after the announcement. I have to catch a plane, so forgive me for not including authors and publishers. All of that information is on ALA's website.
Caldecott Medal: House in the Night
Caldecott Honors: A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever, How I Learned Geography, and River of Words: the Story of William Carlos Williams.
Newbery Medal: The Graveyard Book
Newbery Honors: The Underneath, The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba, Savvy, and After Tupac & D Foster
Printz Award: Jellicoe Road
Printz Honors: Octavian Nothing Volume 2, Nation, Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, and Tender Morsels.
Geisel Award: Are You Ready to Play Outside?
Geisel Honors: Chicken said Cluck, One Boy, Stinky, Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator.
Coretta Scott King Author Award: We are the Ship
Coretta Scott King Author Honors: The Blacker the Berry, Keeping the Night Watch, and Becoming Billie Holiday
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award: The Blacker the Berry
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honors: We Are the Ship, Before John was a Jazz Giant and the Moon over Star
Coretta Scott King /John Steptoe New Talent Award: Bird by Zetta Elliott
Schneider Family Book Award for young children: Piano Starts Here: the Young Art Tatum
Schneider Family Book Award for middle grades: Waiting for Normal
Schneider Family Book Award for teens: Jerk, California
Sibert Medal: We Are the Ship
Sibert Honors: Bodies from Ice and What to Do About Alice?
Carnegie Medal: March On! The Day by Brother Martin Changed the World
Batchelder Award: Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
Batchelder Honors: Garmann's Summer and Tiger Moon
Margeret A. Edwards Recipient (lifetime achievement for Young Adults): Laurie Halse Anderson
Pura Belpre Illustrator Award: Just in Case by Yuyi Morales
Pura Belpre Illustrator honors: Papa and Me, The Storyteller' s Candle and What Can You Do With a Rebozo?
Pura Belpre Author Award: The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
Pura Belpre Author Honors: Just in Case, Reaching Out, and the Storyteller' s Candle
Odyssey Award: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Odyssey Honors: Curse of the Blue Tattoo, Elijah of Buxton, I'm Dirty!, Martina the Beautiful Cockroach and Nation.
Arbuthnot Honor Lecture: Kathleen T. Horning
Wilder Award: Ashley Bryan
William C. Morris debut award: A Curse Dark as Gold
What are your thoughts? I'd love to hear them. Leave a comment below or vote in the poll on the sidebar.
I posted my immediate reactions to the Newbery and Caldecott awards on my blog this morning. In short, I was pleased! What about you?
ReplyDeleteThanks for this. I listened byut did not take notes except noting which ones I had reviewed on my blog. Had trouble with the ALA site as well.
ReplyDeleteI was wondering if you could share how long it takes for copies of the winners get the medals on the covers? My daughter and I have been reading and picking our own Caldecott and Geisel favorites for the past couple of months. She understands what the medals on the covers mean now and I'd like to get some of this years winners but want to get them with the stickers on them. I can't seem to find an answer on how long this takes to happen. I assume book stores are sent stickers to put on their current stock?
ReplyDeleteIt generally takes about a month
ReplyDeletethanks!
ReplyDeleteKim- the answer was too long to fit in the comments. I wrote a whole post about it, just for you.
ReplyDelete-Susan
I was so surprised to be able to (a) get The House in the Night from my public library this week, and (b) to find it had the Caldecott sticker proudly displayed already. I live in Portland, Oregon, where we have one of the busiest library systems in the country, and one of the most awesome, so I guess I shouldn't have been surprised, but I was. It's a lovely book, by the way. So simple and so perfect.
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