BCCB--2007 Award Winners

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The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books:
2007 Children's Book Awards

The Newbery Medal will be awarded to Susan Patron for The Higher Power of Lucky, illustrated by Matt Phelan (Jackson/Atheneum). Three Newbery Honor Books were also named: Penny from Heaven, by Jennifer Holm (Random House); Hattie Big Sky, by Kirby Larson (Delacorte); and Rules, by Cynthia Lord (Scholastic).
The Caldecott Medal will be awarded to David Wiesner for his book Flotsam (Clarion). Caldecott Honor Books are Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet, illustrated and written by David McLimans (Walker) and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, illustrated by Kadir Nelson and written by Carole Boston Weatherford (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion).
The Coretta Scott King Award for writing will be presented to Sharon Draper, author of Copper Sun (Atheneum). The Coretta Scott King Award for illustration will be presented to Kadir Nelson, illustrator of Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, written by Carole Boston Weatherford (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion). One King Author Honor Book was selected: The Road to Paris, by Nikki Grimes (Putnam). The King Illustrator Honor Books are Jazz, illustrated by Christopher Myers, written by Walter Dean Myers (Holiday House) and Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes, illustrated by Benny Andrews (Sterling). The Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award for writing goes to Traci L. Jones, author of Standing Against the Wind (Farrar).

The American publisher receiving the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for the most outstanding translation of a book originally published in a foreign language is Delacorte for Jean-Claude Mourlevat's The Pull of the Ocean, translated from the French by Y. Maudet. Two Honor Books were also selected: The Killer's Tears, written by Anne-Laure Bondoux, translated from the French by Y. Maudet and published by Delacorte; and The Last Dragon, written by Silvana De Mari, translated from the Italian by Shaun Whiteside and published by Miramax/Hyperion.
The Michael L. Printz Award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature goes to author/illustrator Gene Luen Yang for American Born Chinese (First Second/Roaring Brook). Honor books are The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: The Pox Party, by M. T. Anderson (Candlewick); An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green (Dutton); Surrender, by Sonya Hartnett (Candlewick); and The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak (Knopf).
The Robert F. Sibert Award for most distinguished informational book for children goes to Catherine Thimmesh for Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon (Houghton). Three Sibert Honor Books were also named: Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement, by Ann Bausum (National Geographic); Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea, written by Sy Montgomery and illustrated with photographs by Nic Bishop (Houghton); and To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel, written by Siena Cherson Siegel and illustrated by Mark Siegel (Jackson/Atheneum).

The Theodor Seuss Geisel Medal for the most distinguished contribution to beginning reader literature is Zelda and Ivy: The Runaways, written and illustrated by Laura McGee Kvasnosky (Candlewick). Honor Books are: Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride, written by Kate DiCamillo and illustrated by Chris Van Dusen (Candlewick); Move Over Rover!, written by Karen Beaumont and illustrated by Jane Dyer (Harcourt); and Not a Box, written and illustrated by Antoinette Portis (HarperCollins).
The Schneider Family Book Award winner for young children is The Deaf Musicians, written by Peter Seeger and Paul DuBois Jacobs and illustrated by R. Gregory Christie (Putnam). Cynthia Lord is the winner of the middle school award for Rules (Scholastic). The winner of the teen award is Louis Sachar for Small Steps (Delacorte).
The Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in children's video goes to author/illustrator Mo Willems and Weston Wood Studios for Knuffle Bunny (MaGiK Studio).
The winners of the Alex Awards for the ten best adult books that appeal to teen audiences are: The Book of Lost Things, by John Connolly (Atria/Simon); The Whistling Season, by Ivan Doig (Harcourt); Eagle Blue: A Team, A Tribe, and A High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska, by Michael D'Orso (Bloomsbury); Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen (Algonquin); Color of the Sea, by John Hamamura (Thomas Dunne); The Floor of the Sky, by Pamela Carter Joern (University of Nebraska); The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, by Michael Lewis (Norton); Black Swan Green, by David Mitchell (Random House); The World Made Straight, by Ron Rash (Holt); The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield (Atria/Simon).
The 2008 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture will be delivered by David Macaulay.
The winner of the 2007 Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children is James Marshall.
Lois Lowry is the 2007 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 Ellen Klages for The Green Glass Sea (Penguin).
The Canadian Library Association's Book of the Year for Children is The Crazy Man, by Pamela Porter (Groundwood). Two Honor Books are The Gravesavers, by Sheree Fitch (Doubleday) and Hannah Waters and the Daughter of Johann Sebastian Bach, by Barbara Nickel (Penguin). The Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award goes to Leslie Elizabeth Watts for The Baabaasheep Quartet, written by the illustrator (Fitzhenry & Whiteside). The Young Adult Canadian Book Award goes to Shyam Selvadurai for Swimming in the Monsoon Sea (Tundra).
The Carnegie Medal was awarded to Mal Peet for Tamar (Walker).
The Kate Greenaway Medal was awarded to Wolves, written and illustrated by Emily Gravett (Macmillan).
The NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for outstanding nonfiction for children goes to Sy Montgomery's Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea (Houghton). Honor books are: Gregory Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas, by Cheryl Bardoe (Abrams); Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, by Russell Freedman (Holiday House); John Muir: America's First Environmentalist, by Kathryn Lasky (Candlewick); Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium, by Carla Killough McClafferty (Farrar); and Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 On the Moon, by Catherine Thimmesh (Houghton).
Blue Ribbons for the best of the year's literature for youth were awarded to thirty books by Bulletin staff.
The 2007 Gryphon Award given annually in recognition of an English language work of fiction or non-fiction for which the primary audience is children in Kindergarten through Grade 4 will go to The True Story of Stellina, by Matteo Pericoli (Knopf, 2006). Three Honor Books were named: Sea Horse: The Shyest Fish in the Sea, by Chris Butterworth, illustrated by John Lawrence (Candlewick, 2006); Ruby Lu, Empress of Everything, by Lenore Look, illustrated by Anne Wilsdorf (Scholastic, 2006); and Good Boy, Fergus!, by David Shannon (Blue Sky Press, 2006).

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