The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books: 2002 Children's Book Awards
The Newbery Medal
will be awarded to Linda Sue Park for A Single Shard (Clarion). The
Newbery Honor Books are Everything on a Waffle, by Polly Horvath (Farrar);
and Carver: A Life in Poems, by Marilyn Nelson (Front Street).
The Caldecott Medal
will be awarded to David Wiesner for The Three Pigs, text by the illustrator
(Clarion). The Caldecott Honor Books are The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins,
illus. by Brian Selznick, written by Barbara Kerley (Scholastic); Martin's
Big Words, illus. by Bryan Collier, written by Doreen Rappaport (Jump
at the Sun/Hyperion); and The Stray Dog, written and illus. by Marc
Simont (HarperCollins).
The Coretta Scott King
Award for writing will be presented to Mildred D. Taylor, author of
The Land (Fogelman), and the award for illustration goes to Jerry Pinkney
for Goin' Someplace Special, written by Patricia C. McKissack (Schwartz/Atheneum).
The King Honor Books for writing are Money Hungry, written by Sharon
G. Flake (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion) and Carver: A Life in Poems, written
by Marilyn Nelson (Front Street). The King Honor Book for illustration is
Martin's Big Words, illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Doreen
Rappaport (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion).
The American publisher receiving the Mildred L. Batchelder Award
for the most outstanding translation of a book originally published in a foreign
language is Cricket Books/Carus Publishing for Karin Gündisch's How I Became
an American; the honor award goes to Viking Press for A Book of Coupons,
written by Susie Morgenstern and illustrated by Serge Bloch.
The Michael L. Printz Award
for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature
goes to An Na for A Step from Heaven (Front Street). Honor books are
Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art,
edited by Jan Greenberg (Abrams), Freewill, by Chris Lynch (HarperCollins);
The Ropemaker, by Peter Dickinson (Delacorte); and True Believer,
by Virginia Euwer Wolff (Atheneum).
The Robert F. Sibert Award
for most distinguished informational book for children goes to Susan Campbell
Bartoletti for Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850
(Houghton). Honor books are Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death
Camps, by Andrea Warren (HarperCollins); Vincent van Gogh: Portrait
of an Artist, by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan (Delacorte); and Brooklyn
Bridge, written and illustrated by Lynn Curlee (Atheneum).
The Pura Belpré Award for narrative
goes to Pam Muñoz Ryan for Esperanza Rising (Scholastic, 2000) and
the award for illustration goes to Susan Guevara for Chato and the Party
Animals, written by Gary Soto (Putnam, 2000). Author Award Honor Books
are Iguanas in the Snow, by Francisco X. Alarcón, illustrated by Maya
Christina Gonzalez (Children's Book Press, 2001); and Breaking Through,
by Francisco Jiménez (Houghton, 2001). The Honor Book for illustration is
Juan Bobo Goes to Work, illustrated by Joe Cepeda, retold by Marisa
Montes (HarperCollins, 2000).
Paul Zindel is the 2002 winner of the Margaret A. Edwards Award
for Outstanding Literature for Young Adults honoring an author's lifetime
contribution in writing books for teenagers.
The Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction goes to Mildred D.
Taylor for The Land (Fogelman).
The Canadian Library
Association's Best Book of the Year for children is Nan Gregory's
Wild Deer and Gran (Red Deer). The Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's
Award goes to Laura Fernandez and Rick Jacobson for The Magnificent Piano
Recital; written by Marilynn Reynolds (Orca). The Young Adult Canadian
Book Award goes to Beth Goobie for Before Wings (Orca).
The Carnegie
Medal was awarded to Beverley Naidoo for The Other Side of Truth
(HarperCollins).
The Kate
Greenaway Medal was awarded to Lauren Child for I Will Not Ever
Never Eat a Tomato (Candlewick).