The Winners' Corner
Major awards are announced at ALA's midwinter meeting in Washington, D.C.
Staff -- School Library Journal, 2/1/2001
John Newbery Medal: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck (Dial) Newbery Honor Books: Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer (Putnam); The Wanderer by Sharon Creech (HarperCollins); Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick); Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos (Farrar) Randolph Caldecott Medal: So You Want to Be President?, illustrated by David Small, text by Judith St. George (Philomel) Caldecott Honor Books: Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888, illustrated by Christopher Bing, text by Ernest Lawrence Thayer (Handprint); Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, illustrated by Betsy Lewin, text by Doreen Cronin (S & S); Olivia by Ian Falconer (S & S) Coretta Scott King Author Award: Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson (Putnam) King Author Honor Book: Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Steven Alcorn (Harcourt) King Illustrator Award: Uptown by Bryan Collier (Holt) King Illustrator Honor Awards: Freedom River, illustrated by Bryan Collier, text by Doreen Rappaport (Hyperion); Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys, illustrated by E. B. Lewis, text by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard (S & S); Only Passing Through, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie, text by Anne Rockwell (Random) Michael L. Printz Award: Kit's Wilderness by David Almond (Delacorte) Printz Honor Books: Many Stones by Carolyn Coman (Front Street); The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci (Harcourt); Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison (HarperCollins); Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman (HarperCollins) Robert F. Sibert Award: Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado by Marc Aronson (Clarion) Sibert Honor Books: The Longitude Prize by Joan Dash, illustrations by Dusan Petricic (Farrar); Blizzard! by Jim Murphy (Scholastic); My Season with Penguins: An Antarctic Journal by Sophie Webb (Houghton); Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned, written and illustrated by Judd Winick (Holt) Margaret A. Edwards Award: Robert Lipsyte Laura Ingalls Wilder Award: Milton Meltzer Andrew Carnegie Medal: Antarctic Antics, based on a book by Judy Sierra, animated by FableVision Studios, and directed by Gary Goldberger and Peter Reynolds Mildred L. Batchelder Award: Scholastic for Samir and Yonatan, originally published in Hebrew in 1994, written by Daniella Carmi and translated by Yael Lotan Batchelder Honor Book: David R. Godine for Ultimate Game, written by Christian Lehmann in 1996 and translated from the French by William Rodarmor May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award: Philip Pullman ALSC Distinguished Service Award: Margaret Mary Kimmel
