Newbery, Caldecott Winners Announced
-- School Library Journal, 1/13/2004
The American Library Association (ALA) announced this year's winners of the most prestigious awards in children's books on January 12 at ALA's midwinter conference in San Diego.
The 2004 John Newbery Medal was awarded to Kate DiCamillo for The Tale of Despereaux (Candlewick). Author and illustrator Mordicai Gerstein received the 2004 Randolph Caldecott Medal for The Man Who Walked Between the Towers (Roaring Brook).
The Newbery Honor Books were Olive's Ocean (Greenwillow) by Kevin Henkes; and An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (Clarion) by Jim Murphy.
The Caldecott Honor Books were Ella Sarah Gets Dressed (Harcourt) by Margaret Chodos-Irvine; What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? (Houghton), illustrated and written by Steve Jenkins and Robert Page; and Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus (Hyperion) by Mo Willems.
Other awards included:
Coretta Scott King Award for Writing: The First Part Last (Simon & Schuster) by Angela Johnson
Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration: Beautiful Blackbird (Atheneum) by Ashley Bryan
Michael L. Printz Award (for outstanding fiction for young adults): The First Part Last (Simon & Schuster) by Angela Johnson
Robert F. Sibert Award (for outstanding nonfiction): An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (Clarion) by Jim Murphy
Margaret Edwards Award (for lifetime contribution to literature for young adults): Ursula K. LeGuin, author of the Earthsea series (published 1968-1990) and many other books
Mildred L. Batchelder Award (for publisher of best translated book for young people): Walter Lorraine Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin, for Run, Boy, Run, originally published in Hebrew in 2001, written by Uri Orlev and translated by Hillel Halkin
