The John Newbery Medal (for the best children's novel of the year)When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
(H) Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Philip Hoose
(H) The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelley
(H) Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
(H) The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick
The Randolph Caldecott Medal (for the best picture book of the year)The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney
(H) Red Sings from Treetops illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski, written by Joyce Sidman
(H) All the World illustrated by Marla Frazee, written by Elizabeth Garton Scanlon
The Michael L. Printz Award (for the best YA novel of the year)Going Bovine by Libba Bray
(H) Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
(H) The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
(H) Punkzilla by Adam Rapp
(H) Tales of the Madman Underground by John Barnes
The Rest of Them (You knew there were more, right? Don't worry, I won't tell.)
The Alex Awards (for ten adult books with teen appeal)
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: creating currents of electricity and hope by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
The Bride's Farewell by Meg Rosoff
Everything Matters! by Ron Currie
The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
The Kids are All Right: a Memoir by Diana, Liz, Amanda, and Dan Welch
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
My Abandonment by Peter Rock
Soulless by Gail Carriger
Stitches by David Small
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth by Kevin Wilson
The Andrew Carnegie Medal (for excellence in children's video)
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus produced by Weston Woods
The Coretta Scott King Book Awards (for the best book about the African-American experience)
Author
Bad News for Outlaws: the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, deputy U.S. Marshall by Vaunda Micheaeux Nelson, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
(H) Mare's War by Tanita S. Davis
Illustrator
My People illustrated by Charles R. Smith, written by Langston Hughes
(H) The Negro Speaks of Rivers, illustrated by E. B. Lewis, written by Langston Hughes
John Steptoe New Talent
The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon
Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement
Walter Dean Myers
The Margaret A. Edwards Award (for the YA author who's made a lasting contribution to the field)
Jim Murphy
The May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture Award (for an individual in the field of children's literature, who will then present a paper at ALA's Annual Conference)
Lois Lowry
The Mildred L. Batchelder Award (for the best translated children's book)
A Faraway Island by Annika Thor, translated from Swedish by Linda Schenck
(H) Big Wolf and Little Wolf by Nadine Brun-Cosme, illustrated by Olivier Tallec, translated from French by Claudia Bedrick
(H) Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness by Nahako Uehashi, translated from Japanese by Cathy Hirano
The Odyssey Award (for the best children's audiobook of the year)
Louise, The Adventures of a Chicken by Kate DiCamillo
(H) In the Belly of the Bloodhound by LA Meyers
(H) Peace, Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
(H) We Are the Ship by Kadir Nelson
The Pura Belpre Award (for the best children's book about the Latino/a experience)
Authors
Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez
(H) Federico García Lorca by Georgina Lázaro, illustrated by Enrique S. Moreiro
(H) Diego: Bigger Than Life by Carmen Bernier-Grand, illustrated by David Diaz
Illustrators
Book Fiesta!: Celebrate Children’s Day/Book Day; Celebremos El día de los niños/El día de los libros illustrated by Rafael López, written by Pat Mora
(H) Diego: Bigger Than Life illustrated by David Diaz, written by Carmen Bernier-Grand
(H) My Abuelita illustrated by Yuyi Morales, written by Tony Johnston
(H) Gracias Thanks illustrated by John Parra, written by Pat Mora
The Robert F. Sibert Medal (for the best children's nonfiction book of the year)
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone
(H) The Day-Glo brothers: the true story of Bob and Joe Switzer's bright ideas and brand-new colors by Chris Barton
(H) Moonshot: the Flight of Apollo 11 by Brian Floca
(H) Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Philip Hoose
The Schneider Family Book Award (for the best book about the disability experience)
Young Adult Novel
Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X Stork
Middle Grade Novel
Anything but Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin
Picture Book
Django by Bonnie Christensen
The Theodore Seuss Geisel Award (for the best early reader book)
Benny and Penny and the Big No-No by Jeffrey Hayes
(H) Pearl and Wagner: One Funny Day by Kate McMullan
(H) Mouse and Mole: Fine Feathered Friends by Wong Herbert Yee
(H) Little Mouse Gets Ready by Jeff Smith
(H) I Spy Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold
The William C. Morris Award (for the best YA novel by a first-time author)
Flash Burnout by L.K. Madigan
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction
Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Philip Hoose
The Great and Only Barnum: the tremendous, stupendous life of showman P.T. Barnum by Candace Fleming
Written in Bone: buried lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland by Sally Walker
And now it's all over but the online arguing, and that can go on forever. What made you do a little dance? What was robbed, I tell you, robbed? Tell me in the comments!
8 comments:
I did a happy dance about Charles & Emma and about The Day Glo Brothers! And I was a little surprised that neither Lucy Long Ago nor The Frog Scientist saw Sibert action, but I am happy with the winner and honors chosen.
I'm also surprised that Marcelo in the Real World didn't see a Printz honor. And I'm surprised that Mo Willems wasn't among the Geisel winners (but I guess he has enough of those...!).
All in all, I was very happy with this year's winners! (Although I would have done another happy dance, had @randomhousekids not jumped the gun with their celebratory Tweet!)
The two biggest surprises for me:
1. Like Abby, Mo Willems name not appearing for the Geisel.
2. The Printz winner and honors. Now that I think about it, it's very much like the 2008 list, but, wow, was I shocked when it was being announced this morning. Talk about a list that came out of nowhere!
I did a little, ok, bigger than little when I realized I had actually read 3 out of the 5 Newbery winners and all of the Caldecotts.
Definitely surprise about Marcelo and Mo, Abby. But yeah, a good list, and a lot of nonfiction! It will also be interesting to see how that jump-the-gun tweet will affect next year.
Trisha: I hadn't noticed that about the similarity between the lists. You probably saw I went to your blog and read your run-down--interesting. I do agree that three of the honor books were low-radar, as in I'd heard of them, but not as possible honorees. Always kind of neat when that happens.
Bill, I was happy that I'd heard of most of whole list! A couple of years, I've been like, "The who now?"
I was so happy that Homer P. Figg got a Newbery Honor. I loved that book and fought for it in our Mock Newbery. Sadly, I didn't win that argument!
I must say, I was very surprised Wintergirls didn't get an honor.
I'm a little behind the times but I hadn't actually read the complete list yet. Thanks for linking all the books up and providing the list in full. Made it nice and convenient for me!
The Newbery winners seemed pretty predictable (yay When You Reach Me!) but I was blindsided by the Printz list, and don't have a single one in my library yet. I'm still under the impression that The Monstrumologist is the only Printz title really at home in a middle school library, but I'm going to read the others first and see if they'll work in my collection.
I was surprised that Almost Astronauts won the Sibert in such a strong field and would kill to know how that happened.
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