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And the ALA 2008 Award Winners are...

Newbery Medal:
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz
Newbery Honors:
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson

 
Caldecott Medal
Invention of Hugo Cabret illustrated by Brian Selznick
Caldecott Honors
First the Egg illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Henry's Freedom Box illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Ellen Levine
Knuffle Bunny Too illustrated by Mo Willems
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain illustrated by Peter Sis

Past Caldecott Medal Winners
 
Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award
Orson Scott Card

Printz Medal
White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean
Printz Honors
Dreamquake by Elizabeth Knox
One Whole and Perfect Day by Judith Clarke
Repossessed by A.M. Jenkins
Your Own, Sylvia by Stephanie Hemphill
 
Coretta Scott King Awards
Author:
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
Author Honors
November Blues by Sharon Draper
Twelve Rounds to Glory by Charles R. Smith Jr.

Illustrator:
Let it Shine by Ashley Bryan
IIlustrator Honors
Jazz on a Saturday Night by Leo and Diane Dillon
The Secret Olivia Told Me 
by Nancy Devard
John Steptoe New Talent Author
Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything In It by Sundee T. Frazier
  
From the ALA Web site: "The award...honors an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made, over a period of years, a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children."
 
Mildred L. Batchelder Award
Brave Story written by Miyuki Miyabe and translated from the Japanese by Alexander O. Smith 
 
Sibert Informational Book Award
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain illustrated by Peter Sis


Updated January 30, 2008


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