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And the Winner Is...

Key awards announced at ALA's midwinter meeting

Staff -- School Library Journal, 3/1/2000

Here's a roundup of key awards announced at ALA's midwinter meeting in January. Books were published in 1999, except where noted.

Newbery Medal: Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy (Delacorte).

Newbery Honor Books: Audrey Couloumbis, Getting Near to Baby (Putnam); Jennifer L. Holm, Our Only May Amelia (HarperCollins); Tomie dePaola, 26 Fairmount Avenue (Putnam).

Caldecott Medal: Simms Taback, Joseph Had a Little Overcoat (Viking).

Caldecott Honor Books: Trina Schart Hyman, A Child's Calendar, written by John Updike (Holiday House); David Wiesner, Sector 7 (Clarion); Molly Bang, When Sophie Gets Angry--Really, Really Angry (Scholastic); Jerry Pinkney, The Ugly Duckling, written by Hans Christian Andersen, adapted by Pinkney (Morrow).

Coretta Scott King Author Award: Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy (Delacorte).

King Author Honor Books: Karen English, Francie (Farrar); Patricia C. McKissack and Frederick L. McKissack, Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers (Scholastic); Walter Dean Myers, Monster (HarperCollins).

King Illustrator Award: Brian Pinkney, In the Time of the Drums, text by Kim L. Siegelson (Hyperion).

King Illustrator Honor Books: E. B. Lewis, My Rows and Piles of Coins, text by Tololwa M. Mollel (Clarion); Christopher Myers, Black Cat (Scholastic).

Michael L. Printz Award: Walter Dean Myers, Monster (HarperCollins).

Pura Belpre Award--Narrative: Alma Flora Ada, Under the Royal Palms: A Childhood in Cuba (Atheneum, 1998).

Pura Belpre Award--Illustration: Carmen Lomas Garza, Magic Windows (Children's Book Press).

Belpre Honor Books--Narrative: Francisco X. AlarcA3n, From the Bellybutton of the Moon and Other Summer Poems/Del ombligo de la luna y otro poemas de verano (Children's Book Press, 1998); Juan Felipe Herrera, Laughing Out Loud, I Fly: Poems in English and Spanish.

Belpre Honor Books--Illustration: George Ancona, Barrio: Jose's Neighborhood (Harcourt, 1998); Felipe Davalos, The Secret Stars (Marshall Cavendish, 1998); Amelia Lau Carling, Mama & Papa Have a Store (Dial, 1998).

Margaret A. Edwards Award: Chris Crutcher.

Mildred L. Batchelder Award: Anton Quintana, The Baboon King (Walker)

Batchelder Honor Books: Christina BjArk, Vendela in Venice (R & S); Quint Buchholz, The Collector of Moments (Farrar); Ineke Holtwijk, Asphalt Angels (Front Street).

Andrew Carnegie Medal: Miss Nelson Has a Field Day, a video produced by Paul R. Gagne for Weston Woods Studio.

Grolier Award: Michael Cart.

2000 May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture: Susan Cooper.

Distinguished Service Award, Association for Library Service to Children: Peggy Sullivan.

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