Newbery, Caldecott Winners Announced

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Rick Margolis -- School Library Journal, 01/17/2005

The suspense is over. After months of top-secret deliberations, the American Library Association (ALA) revealed the winners of the nation’s most prestigious awards for books for young people January 17 in Boston, at its annual midwinter meeting.

Kevin Henkes’s Kitten’s First Full Moon (2004, Greenwillow), the charming tale of a kitten’s quest to catch the moon, captured the Caldecott Medal for best illustrated book, and Cynthia Kadohata's novel Kira-Kira (2004, S & S/Atheneum), the story of a Japanese-American family that moves to a small town in rural Georgia, won the Newbery Medal for distinguished writing. (To read an interview with Kevin Henkes on the making of Kitten’s First Full Moon, see “The Complete Package,” October 2004.)

Other award winners include:

Caldecott Honor Books

• The Red Book (Houghton) by Barbara Lehman
• Coming on Home Soon (Putnam) illustrated by E.B. Lewis, written by Jacqueline Woodson
• Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale (Hyperion) by Mo Willems

Newbery Honor Books

• Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (Clarion) by Gary D. Schmidt
• Al Capone Does My Shirts (Putnam) by Gennifer Choldenko
• The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights (Clarion) by Russell Freedman

Michael L. Printz Award

• How I Live Now (Wendy Lamb Books/Random House) by Meg Rosoff

Printz Honor Books

• Airborn (EOS/HarperCollins) by Kenneth Oppel
• Chanda’s Secrets (Annick Press) by Allan Stratton
• Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (Clarion) by Gary D. Schmidt

Batchelder Award

• Delacorte, publisher of The Shadows of Ghadames by Joëlle Stolz, translated from the French by Catherine Temerson

Batchelder Honor Books

• Farrar Straus Giroux, publisher of The Crow-Girl: The Children of Crow Cove by Bodil Bredsdorff, translated from the Danish by Faith Ingwersen
• A Richard Jackson Book, S & S/Atheneum, publisher of Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi, by David Chotjewitz, translated from the German by Doris Orgel

Sibert Medal

• The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights (Clarion) by Russell Freedman

Sibert Honor Books

• Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing (Houghton) by James Rumford, translated into Cherokee by Anna Sixkiller Huckaby
• The Tarantula Scientist (Hougton) by Sy Montgomery, photographs by Nic Bishop
• Walt Whitman: Words for America (Scholastic Press) by Barbara Kerley, illustrated by Brian Selznick

Wilder Medal

• Laurence Yep, award-winning author of books for young people

Carnegie Medal

• Paul R. Gagne and Melissa Reilly of Weston Woods Studios, producers of The Dot, in association with FableVision, based on the book by Peter H. Reynolds

2006 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecturer

• Russell Freedman, author of distinguished nonfiction books for children and young adults

• Toni Morrison, author of Remember: The Journey to School Integration (Houghton)

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award

• Kadir Nelson, illustrator of Ellington Was Not a Street (S & S) by Ntozake Shange

• The Legend of Buddy Bush (S & S/ Margaret K. McElderry Bks.) by Shelia P. Moses
• Who Am I Without Him?: Short Stories About Girls and the Boys in Their Lives (Hyperion/Jump at the Sun) by Sharon G. Flake
• Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem(Front Street) by Marilyn Nelson

• God Bless the Child (HarperCollins/Amistad) illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, written by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr.
• The People Could Fly: The Picture Book(Knopf) illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon, written by Virginia Hamilton