• The Newbery Medal will be awarded to Avi for Crispin: The Cross of Lead (Hyperion ). The Newbery Honor Books are The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer (Jackson/Atheneum); Pictures of Hollis Woods, by Patricia Reilly Giff (Lamb/Random House); Hoot, by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf); A Corner of the Universe, by Ann M. Martin (Scholastic); and Surviving the Applewhites, by Stephanie S. Tolan (HarperCollins).

• The Caldecott Medal will be awarded to Eric Rohmann for My Friend Rabbit, text by the illustrator (Roaring Brook). The Caldecott Honor Books are The Spider and the Fly, illus. by Tony DiTerlizzi, written by Mary Howitt (Simon); Hondo & Fabian, written and illus. by Peter McCarty (Holt); and Noah's Ark, adapted and illus. by Jerry Pinkney (SeaStar)..

• The Coretta Scott King Award for writing will be presented to Nikki Grimes, author of Bronx Masquerade (Dial), and the award for illustration goes to E. B. Lewis for Talkin' about Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman, written by Nikki Grimes (Orchard). The King Honor Books for writing are Talkin' about Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman, written by Nikki Grimes (Dial), and Red Rose Box, written by Brenda Woods (Putnam). The King Honor Books for illustration are Rap a Tap Tap: Here's Bojangles-Think of That!, written and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon (Blue Sky); and Visiting Langston, illus. by Bryan Collier, written by Willie Perdomo (Holt).

• The American publisher receiving the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for the most outstanding translation of a book originally published in a foreign language is The Chicken House/Scholastic for Cornelia Funke's The Thief Lord; the honor award goes to David R. Godine for Henrietta and the Golden Eggs, written by Hanna Johansen and illustrated by Käthi Bhend.

• The Michael L. Printz Award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature goes to Aidan Chambers for Postcards from No Man's Land (Dutton). Honor books are Hole in My Life, by Jack Gantos (Farrar), My Heartbeat, by Garret Freymann-Weyr (Houghton), and The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer (Jackson/Atheneum).

• The Robert F. Sibert Award for most distinguished informational book for children goes to James Cross Giblin for The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler (Clarion). Honor books are Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929, by Karen Blumenthal (Atheneum); Hole in My Life, by Jack Gantos (Farrar); Action Jackson, by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, illus. by Robert Andrew Parker (Porter/Roaring Brook); and When Marian Sang, written by Pam Muņoz Ryan, illus. by Brian Selznick (Scholastic).

• Eric Carle is the recipient of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award.

• The 2004 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture will be delivered by Ursula LeGuin.

• Nancy Garden is the 2003 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 Shelley Pearsall for Trouble Don't Last (Knopf).

• The Canadian Library Association's Best Book of the Year for Children Award goes to Jean Little's Orphan at My Door: The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope (Scholastic). The Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award goes to Frances Wolfe for Where I Live; written by the illustrator (Tundra). The Young Adult Canadian Book Award goes to William Bell for Stones (Doubleday).

• The Carnegie Medal was awarded to Terry Pratchett for The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (HarperCollins)..

• The Kate Greenaway Medal was awarded to Chris Riddell for Pirate Diary written by Richard Platt (Candlewick).

• The Hans Christian Andersen Award for writing goes to Aidan Chambers of the United Kingdom. The award for illustration goes to Quentin Blake of the United Kingdom.

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