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And the ALA 2009 Award Winners are...

Newbery Medal:
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
 
Newbery Honors:
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle
Savvy by Ingrid Law
After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
   

Caldecott Medal
The House in the Night illustrated by Beth Krommes and written by Susan Marie Swanson
 
Caldecott Honors
A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever written and  illustrated by Marla Frazee
How I Learned Geography written and illustrated by Uri Shulevitz
A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams illustrated by Melissa Sweet and written by Jen Bryant

Past Caldecott Medal Winners
   

Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award
Laurie Halse Anderson
   

Printz Medal
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
 
Printz Honors
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II, The Kingdom on the Waves by M.T. Anderson
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Nation by Terry Pratchett
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
   

Coretta Scott King Awards
Author:
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Author Honors
The Blacker the Berry by illustrated by Floyd Cooper and written by Joyce Carol Thomas
Keeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith
Becoming Billie Holiday by Carole Boston Weatherford

Illustrator:
The Blacker the Berry by illustrated by Floyd Cooper and written by Joyce Carol Thomas
IIlustrator Honors
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Before John Was a Jazz Giant 
by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Sean Qualls
The Moon Over Star by Dianna Hutts Aston and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
   

John Steptoe New Talent Author
Shadra Strickland, illustrator of Bird written by Zetta Eliott

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
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit written by Nahoko Uehashi and translated from the Japanese by Cathy Hirano
   

Sibert Informational Book Award
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson


Updated January 31, 2009


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