Newbery, Caldecott Medals Announced from Seattle
by Diane Roback, PW Daily -- Publishers Weekly, 1/22/2007
Susan Patron has won the John Newbery Medal for her novel The Higher Power of Lucky, illustrated by Matt Phelan (S&S/Jackson), and David Wiesner won the Randolph Caldecott Medal for Flotsam (Clarion). Wiesner had won the Caldecott twice previously, for The Three Pigs and Tuesday, and a Caldecott Honor for Sector 7. The awards were announced this morning at the ALA's midwinter conference in Seattle.
Three Newbery Honors were named: Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm (Random), Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson (Delacorte); and Rules by Cynthia Lord (Scholastic).
There were also two Caldecott Honor Books: Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet by David McLimans (Walker & Co.); and Moses, illus. by Kadir Nelson, written by Carole Boston Weatherford (Hyperion/Jump at the Sun).
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (Roaring Brook/First Second) won the Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature for young adults. It is the first graphic novel to be recognized by the Printz committee. Four Printz Honors were given: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M.T. Anderson (Candlewick); An Abundance of Katherines by John Green (Dutton); Surrender by Sonya Hartnett (Candlewick); and The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Knopf).
The Robert F. Sibert Award for the most distinguished informational book was won by Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh (Houghton). There were three Sibert Honors: Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement by Ann Bausum (National Geographic); Quest for the Tree Kangaroo by Sy Montgomery, photographs by Nic Bishop (Houghton); and To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel by Siena Cherson Siegel, illus. by Mark Siegel (Atheneum/Jackson).
Sharon Draper won the Coretta Scott King Author award for Copper Sun (Atheneum), and Kadir Nelson won the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for Moses, written by Carole Boston Weatherford (Hyperion/Jump at the Sun). The John Steptoe Award for New Talent went to Traci L. Jones, author of Standing Against the Wind (FSG).
There was one Coretta Scott King Author Honor: The Road to Paris by Nikki Grimes (Putnam). And there were two Illustrator Honors: Jazz, illus. by Christopher Myers, written by Walter Dean Myers (Holiday House); and Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes, edited by David Roessel and Arnold Rampersad, illus. by Benny Andrews (Sterling).
The Mildred L. Batchelder Award for best work of translation went to Delacorte Press for The Pull of the Ocean by Jean-Claude Mourlevat, translated by Y. Maudet. There were two Batchelder Honors: The Last Dragon by Silvana de Mari, translated by Shaun Whiteside (Miramax); and The Killer's Tears by Anne-Laure Bondoux, translated by Y. Maudet (Delacorte).
The Laura Ingalls Wilder, given every two years to an author or illustrator for making "a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children, was awarded posthumously to James Marshall.
The second Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for beginning reader books went to Zelda and Ivy: The Runaways by Laura McGee Kvasnosky (Candlewick). There were three Geisel Award Honors: Move Over, Rover! by Karen Beaumont, illus. by Jane Dyer (Harcourt); Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride by Kate DiCamillo, illus. by Chris Van Dusen (Candlewick); and Not a Box by Antoinette Portis (HarperCollins).
The Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime contribution in writing for young adults was given to Lois Lowry, and David Macaulay was chosen to deliver the May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture.
Three Schneider Family Book Award were announced: The Deaf Musicians by Pete Seeger and Paul Dubois Jacobs, illus. by R. Gregory Christie (Putnam) won for best children's book, Rules by Cynthia Lord (Scholastic) won for best middle school book, and Small Steps by Louis Sachar (Delacorte) won for best teen book.
And the Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in children's video went to Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems (Weston Woods).
