Newbery, Caldecott, King, Printz and Edwards Awards Announced at ALA Midwinter in San Antonio
Staff -- School Library Journal, 2/1/2000
Newbery, Caldecott, King, Printz and
Edwards Awards Announced at
ALA Midwinter in San Antonio
By Walter Minkel
Christopher Paul Curtis won both the 2000 Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Award for his book Bud, Not Buddy (Delacorte). In the book, 10-year-old Bud Caldwell runs away from a foster home to search for his father. Old flyers left by his dead mother point to a legendary jazz bandleader.
The 2000 Newbery honor books are Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis (Putnam), 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola (Putnam), and Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm (HarperCollins). The King honor books for writing are Francie by Karen English (Farrar); Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack (Scholastic); and Monster by Walter Dean Myers (HarperCollins).
The Coretta Scott King Award winner for illustration is Jerry Pinkney for In the Time of the Drums (Hyperion), which tells the story of a young Mentu who learns about his African heritage from the drumming of his grandmother.
King illustration honor books are My Rows and Piles of Coins, illustrated by E.B. Lewis and written by Tololwa M. Mollel (Clarion), and Black Cat by Christopher Myers (Scholastic).
Simms Taback won the 2000 Caldecott Medal for Joseph Had a Little Overcoat (Viking), based on a Yiddish story about a tailor who recreates his overcoat, as it wears out, into smaller and smaller garments.
Caldecott Honor Books are Sector 7 by David Wiesner (Clarion); The Ugly Duckling, adapted and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney from the tale by Hans Christian Andersen (Morrow); When Sophie Gets Angry--Really, Really Angry by Molly Bang (Scholastic); and A Child's Calendar, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman and written by John Updike (Holiday).
The first Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature for ages 12-18, went to Walter Dean Myers won for Monster (HarperCollins), the story of a 16-year-old arrested for murder told in the style of a screenplay.
Printz Honor Books are Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger (Simon & Schuster), Skellig by David Almond (Delacorte), and Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (Farrar).
Chris Crutcher, author of such books as Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes (Greenwillow, 1994), won the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for teens. The award is sponsored by School Library Journal and administered by the Young Adult Library Services Association.
The awards were presented at the American Library Association's Midwinter Conference in San Antonio, TX on Jan. 17. For more information about the Newbery and Caldecott medals, visit www.ala.org/alsc/newbery.html and www.ala.org/alsc/caldecott.html. The Coretta Scott King Award site is at www.ala.org/srrt/csking/. The Printz Award site is at www.ala.org/yalsa/printz/. The Margaret A. Edwards Award site is at www.ala.org/yalsa/awards/edwards.html.
