The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books: 1998 Award
Winners
The Newbery Medal
will be awarded to Karen Hesse for Out of the Dust (Scholastic).
The Newbery Honor Books are Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
(HarperCollins), Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
(Delacorte), and Wringer by Jerry Spinelli (HarperCollins).
The Caldecott
Medal will be awarded to Paul O. Zelinsky for Rapunzel
(Dutton). The Caldecott Honor Books are The Gardener, written by
Sarah Stewart and illustrated by David Small (Farrar), Harlem,
written by Walter Dean Myers and illustrated by Christopher Myers
(Scholastic), and There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly,
adapted and illustrated by Simms Taback (Viking).
The Coretta Scott
King Award will be presented to Sharon M. Draper, author of Forged
by Fire (Atheneum), for writing and to In Daddy's Arms I Am
Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers , illustrated by Javaka
Steptoe and compiled by Alan Schroeder (Lee & Low) for illustration. The
King Honor Books for writing are James Haskins' Bayard Rustin: Behind
the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement (Hyperion) and Joyce
Hansen's I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a
Freed Girl (Scholastic). King Honor Books for illustration are
The Hunterman and the Crocodile, adapted and illustrated by Baba
Wagué Diakit é (Scholastic), Ashley Bryan's ABC of African
Poetry, compiled and illustrated by Ashley Bryan (Karl/Atheneum), and
Harlem, written by Walter Dean Myers and illustrated by
Christopher Myers (Scholastic).
The Pura Belpré
Award will be presented to Victor Martinez, author of Parrot in
the Oven: mi vida (Cotler/HarperCollins) for writing and to
Stephanie Garcia for Snapshots from the W edding, written by Gary
Soto (Putnam) for illustration. Honor books for writing are Francisco
Alarcón's Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring
Poems/Jitomates Risueños y otros poemas de primavera
(Children's Book Press) and Floyd Ma rtinez' Spirits of the High
Mesa (Piñata/Arte Publico); honor books for illustration are
In My Family/ En mi familia, written and illustrated by Carmen
Lomas Garza (Children's Book Press), The Golden Flower: A Taino Myth
from Puerto Rico, written by Nina Jaffe and illustrated by Enrique O.
Sánchez (Simon), and Gathering the Sun: An Alphabet in Spanish
and English, written by Alma Flor Ada and illustrated by Simó n
Silva (Lothrop).
The American publisher receiving the Mildred L. Batchelder
Award for the most outstanding translation of a book originally
published in a foreign language is Henry Holt for Joseph Holub's The
Robber and Me; honors go to Scholastic for Tatjana Wassiljewa's
Hostage to War: A True Story and to Viking for Elke
Heidenreich's Nero Corleone: A Cat's Story.
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for a substantial and lasting
contribution to literature for children goes to Russell Freedman.
The 1999 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture will be delivered by Lillian
Gerhardt.
Madeleine L'Engle is the 1998 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
Karen Hesse's Out of the Dust (Lodestar).
The Canadian Library Association's Best Book of the Year for
Children is Uncle Ronald by Brian Doyle (Groundwood).
The Best Book of the Year for Young Adults is Takes: Stories for Young
Adults edited by R.P. MacInty re (Thistledown). The Amelia Frances
Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award goes to Harvey Chan for Ghost
Train, written by Paul Yee (Groundwood).
The Carnegie Medal was awarded to Melvin Burgess for
Junk, published in the U.S. as Smack (Henry Holt).
The Kate Greenaway Medal was awarded to Helen Cooper
for The Baby Who Wouldn't Go To Bed (Doubleday).
