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ALA 2010 AWARD WINNERS

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