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CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TOCHILDREN'S LITERATURE!
Margaret Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement – JIM MURPHY
Virginia Hamilton for Lifetime Achievement – WALTER DEAN MYERS
Arbuthnot Lecturer – LOIS LOWRY
Newbery
WHEN YOU REACH ME by Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb / Random House)
Honor Books:
Claudette Colvin by Phillip Hoose
The Evolution of Calpuria Tale by Kelly
Where the Moutain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick
Caldecott
THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Jerry Pinkney (Little Brown)
Honor Books:
All the World illustrated by Marla Frazee, written by Liz Garton Scanlon
Red Sings from Treetops illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski, written by Joyce Sidman
Michael L. Printz (excellence in literature for young adults)
GOING BOVINE by Libba Bray
Honor Books:
Charles and Emma by Deborah Heiligman
Punkzilla by Adam Rapp
Tales From the Madman Underground by John Barnes
The Monstrologist
Wiliam C. Morris (outstanding first time author for young adults)
FLASH BURNOUT by L. K. Madigan (Houghton Mifflin
Honor Books:
Ash by Melina Lo
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia
The Everafter by Amy Huntley
Hold Still by Nina LaCour
YALSA Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction (for YA)
CHARLES & EMMA by Heligman
Honor Books:
Almost Astronauts by Tanya Lee Stone
Written in Bone by Sally M. Walker
Claudette Colvin by Phillip Hoose
The Great and Only Barnum by Candice Fleming
Coretta Scott King Book Awards (African American author and illustrator of outstanding books for children and young adults)
BOOK:
BAD NEW FOR OUTLAWS by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson (Carolrhoda)
Honor Books:
Mare’s Ware by Tanila S. Davis
ILLUSTRATOR:
MY PEOPLE illustrated by Charles R. Smith, written by Langston Hughes
Honor: Illustrators:
THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS illustrated by E.B. Lewis, written by Langston Hughes
NEW TALENT:
THE ROCK AND THE RIVER by Kekla Magoon
Schneider Family Book Award (books that embody the artistic expression of the disability experience for children and adolescents)
CHILDREN: DJANGO by Bonnie Christensen (Roaring Brook)
MIDDLE SCHOOL: ANYTHING BUT TYPICAL by Nora Raleigh Baskin (Simon & Schuster)
TEEN: MARCELO AND THE REAL WORLD by Francisco X. Stork (Scholastic)
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award (distinguished book for beginning readers)
BENNY AND PENNY IN THE BIG NO NO! by Geoffrey Hayes (Raw Junior)
Honor Books:
I Spy Fly Guy by Ted Arnold
Little Mouse Gets Ready by Jeff Smith
Mouse and Mole, Fine Feathered Friends by Wong Herbert Yee
Pura Belpre Award (Latino authors and illlustrators whose work best portrays, affirms and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in children’s books)
BOOK:
RETURN TO SENDER by Julia Alvarez (Knopf)
Honor Books:
Diego: Bigger Than Life by Carmen Bernier-Grand
Frederico Garcia Lorca
ILLUSTRATOR:
BOOK FIESTA illustrated by Rafael Lopez, written by Pat Mora, (Rayo)
Honor Books:
Diego illustrated by David Diaz, written by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand
My Abuelita illustrated by Yuyi Morales, written by Tony Johnston
Gracia Thanks illustrated by John Parra, written by Pat Mora
ROBERT F. SIBERT AWARD (distinguished informational book for children)
ALMOST ASTROMAUTS by Tanya Lee Stone (Candlewick)
Honor Books:
The Day-Glo Brothers by Chri Barton
Moonshot by Brain Floca
Claudette Colvin by Phillips Hoose
Mildred L. Batchelder Award (outstanding children’s book translation)
A FARAWAY ISLAND by Annika Thor, translated by Linda Schenck (Delacorte)
Honor Books:
Eidi by Bodil Bredsdorff, tr. by Kathryn Mahaffy
Moritito II by Nahoko Uehashi, tr. By Cathy Hirano, ills. By Yuko Shimizu
Odyssey Award (excellence in Audiobooks)
LOUISE: THE ADVENTURES OF A CHICKEN (Live Oak Media)
Honor Audiobooks:
In the Belly of the Bloodhound
Peace Locomotion
We Are the Ship
Andrew Carnegie Medal (excellence in children video)
DON’T LET THE PIGEON DRIVE THE BUS (Weston Woods)
Alex Awards (10 best adult books with appeal to teens)
GOOD SOLDIERS
KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT
THE MAGICIANS
MY ABANDONMENT
SOULLESS
STITCHES
TUNNELING TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
THE BOY WHO HARNESSED THE WIND
EVERYTHING MATTERS
BRIDE’S FAREWELL
Author: Pam Munoz Ryan
Illustrator: Joe Cepeda
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Publication Date: 2001
Genre: Picture Book
Audience: Pre-K-Gr.3
Awards: American Library Association Notable Children's Book (2002)
Overview: In this bilingual conversion of English and Spanish, meet Rosa Maria in her tiny little house and spend every day of the week preparing for a birthday party extravaganza! Learn how to make a birthday cake, fresh lemonade, enchiladas, rice and beans, and a piñata for this family celebration that truly shows how big the heart can be. Be careful, though, not the let the mice get in the way.
Reviewer’s Name: Nadeline Fleischer
Author: Majorie Priceman
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Date: 1994
Genre: Picture Book
Audience: Gr. Pre-K - 3
Overview: Baking warm, sweet apple pie requires many ingredientsBut, OH NO! The market is closed! That’s okay, travel the world to get fresh ingredients! When you come home you will have warm pie and great adventures to share with friends and family!
Activity: If your kids like this picture book, surely they would enjoy Hot Air, which is also written by Majorie Priceman. A template for a picture flip book that illustrates the main events of this book would be a fun activity for the children to do after reading it.
Reviewer’s Name: Nadeline Fleischer
Author: Linda Smith
Illustrator: Marla Frazee
Publisher: Harper Collins
Publication Date: 2002
Genre: Picture Book
Audience: Gr. 1-5
Overview: Learn how Mrs. Biddlebox turns her bad day around just in time for a warm supper and a good nights sleep. With a good attitude and a little bit of magic, you too can turn around a bad day!
Activity: Children can brainstorm the “before and after” of this book? What do you think happened that made the day to horrible for Mrs. Biddlebox, and how do you think her next day went?
Reviewer’s Name: Nadeline Fleischer
Author: Neil Gaiman
Illustrator: Dave McKean
Publisher: Harper Collins
Publication Date: 2003
Genre: Picture Book
Audience: Gr.4+
Overview: From the author of New York Time’s Bestseller, Coraline, this picture book, perfect for Halloween time, combines spooky illustrations with a spooky tale. What happens to the house with wolves in the wall? And the family that lives in it? Read and find out!
Activity: Around Halloween, this book could be read in order to spark imagination to write a spooky story.
Reviewer’s Name: Nadeline Fleischer
Author: Lisa Campbell Ernst
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Publication Date: 1998
Genre: Picture Book
Audience: Gr. K-4
Awards: Bill Martin, Jr. Picture Book award (2000)
Overview: This cumulative story retells the unfortunate events of a little girl who misplaced her library book on the day it is due! All day Stella Louella frantically searches for her book, which has been picked up, read, and placed in many different places! Will Stella Louella find her library book in time to return it to the librarian? Find out!
Activity: This is a great book to read to Kindergarteners before they begin using their school library. Or-jumpstart a discussion about responsibility, and what else in our lives we need to be responsible for.
Reviewer’s Name: Nadeline Fleischer
Author/Illustrator: Paul Goble
Publisher: Orchard Books
Publication Date: 1989
Genre: Folktale
Audience: Pre-K-2
Overview: Caldecott Medalist Paul Gobel re-tells the Plains Indian folk tale of Iktomi, which is a Sioux name meaning spider. In this story Iktomi goes out to hunt for food. He sees red berries in the water, wants to pick them to eat, but can’t figure out how to get them out of the water. Iktomi must continue to try to get the berries to take home to his family. There is a great lesson at the end of the story.
Activity: Students can draw a picture of Iktomi trying to get the berries out of the water.
Reviewer’s Name: Paula Pavon
Author: Mary Howitt
Illustrator: Tony DiTerlizzi
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Publication Date: 2002
Genre: Alphabet, Animals, Picture Book, Poetry, Fable
Audience: Pre-K-2
Awards: Caldecott Honor Book, ALA Notable Children’s Books, Beehive Award Master List (UT)
Overview: A haunting tale, based on a 1800’s poem by Mary Howitt, about a devious spider who coerces an innocent little fly into his parlor of no return. The illustrations in black and white provide details about the story that would not otherwise be known.
Activity: This fable could be used around Halloween, as a light horror story. You could then have students write their own horror story. Have students share their stories with the rest of the class.
Reviewer’s Name: Kristen
Author/Illustrator: Mordicai Gerstein
Publisher: MacMillan
Publication Date: 2003
Genre: Biography, Historical
Audience: 3+
Awards: Caldecott Medal, Carnegie Medal
Overview: Paintings in the form of a comic strip, help tell the tale of Philippe Petit, the man who walked between the Twin Towers. He secretly planned his walk despite the odds against him but paid the price for his actions in the end. In this story, Petit is remembered as a legend for his courage to do the impossible.
Activity: Have students pretend they took the walk of Philippe Petit on the wire. Have them write a poem from their perspective, about how they would act and feel on that cable high in the sky.
Reviewer’s Name: Kristen
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Illustrator: Greg Shed
Publisher: Harcourt Books
Publication Date: 2000
Genre: Multi-Cultural, Picture Book, Historical
Audience: 3+
Awards: ABA’s Pick of the List, Knickerbocker Award, NCSS-CBC Notable Children’s Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies
Overview: A story about Squanto and his interactions with the English settlers. While he encounters hardships and triumphs, he is able to become a peacemaker between Indian tribes and the English, and eventually they are able to indulge in Thanksgiving together.
Activity: Have students write a thank-you letter to Squanto, for keeping the peace and for creating the first thanksgiving. Then have students write cards to others whom they are thankful for.
Reviewer’s Name: Kristen
Author/Illustrator: Paul Goble
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Publication Date: 1978
Genre: Animals, Fables, Folktale, Picture Book
Audience: 3+
Awards: Caldecott Medal, ALA Notable Children’s Book, CBC/ NCSS Notable Children’s Book in Social Studies
Overview: One day a young native American girl gets lost in the wilderness with a herd of wild horses and loves living with them. A few years later hunters find her, and she goes home to her parents, and realizes that she misses being with the wild horses, so she goes back to live with them. In the end she lives forever among the horses, where she belongs.
Activity: Incorporate this story with a lesson about Native American culture. Have students write their own Native American legend.
Reviewer’s Name: Kristen
Author: Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator: Leonard Weisgard
Publisher: Random House
Publication Date: 1946
Genre: Animals, Picture Book, Young Adult
Audience: 3+
Awards: Caldecott Medal
Overview: The little island in the middle of the ocean experiences the many changes of the weather and seasons. This little island is quite big to all the creatures that live on it. The beautiful watercolors along side the poetic text, helps to paint a clear picture of the island in the readers mind.
Activity: Have students take a sentence or two from the book and draw a picture to accompany the text. Take the completed work and make a book out of it.
Reviewer’s Name: Kristen
Author/Illustrator: Loren Long
Publisher: Penguin Group
Publication Date: 2009
Genre: Animals, Picture Book
Audience: Pre-K-2
Overview: Otis is an old rundown tractor who is replaced by a big new yellow tractor, and is put into misery when he is left outside because he is no longer of use. But when his friend, the young calf gets stuck in the mud, he is the only one that is able to get her out.
Activity: Have students think about how Otis helped out the calf. Have them come up with a list of thing the can do to help out others in the classroom. Post this list somewhere as a reminder of what they can do.
Reviewer’s Name: Kristen
