Sharon Creech Wins Carnegie Medal

Sharon Creech became the first American winner of the Carnegie Medal, the top U.K. award for children's literature, for her novel Ruby Holler (HarperCollins, 2002). The medal, awarded annually since 1936, is bestowed to a writer of an outstanding book for young people. Creech, who won the 1995 Newbery Medal for Walk Two Moons (HarperCollins, 1994), is the first author to win both the top U.S. and U.K. children's literature awards. For more information on the medal, go to www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk.