• 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).

• The 2003 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture will be delivered by Maurice Sendak.

• 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).

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