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.
