Awards

2001 Christopher Awards: The winners are How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?(Scholastic) by Jane Yolen, illustrated by Mark Teague; The Mousery (Harcourt) by Charlotte Pomerantz, illustrated by Kurt Cyrus; The Yellow Star (Peachtree) by Carmen Agra Deedy, illustrated by Henri Sorensen; Hope Was Here(Penguin Putnam) by Joan Bauer; and The Wanderer(HarperCollins) by Sharon Creech. The Christopher Awards honor books that remind readers and audiences "of their power to positively impact and shape the world."

2001 Ezra Jack Keats Awards: D. B. Johnson has won the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award for the picture book that he wrote and illustrated, Henry Hikes to Fitchburg(Houghton, 2000), and Bryan Collier has won the first Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award for his collage illustrations in Uptown (Holt, 2000), which he wrote and illustrated. The awards recognize promising new writers and distinguished artwork that makes a graphic contribution to children's literature. Both winners will receive an Ezra Jack Keats silver medallion and a $1,000 cash prize.

2001 Herbert and Virginia White Award: Dr. Ken Haycock will receive the American Library Association's (ALA) prestigious award, which recognizes an individual who has "contributed significantly to the public recognition and appreciation of the profession of librarianship." Haycock is a professor and the director of the graduate School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia. The award will be presented at ALA's annual conference in San Francisco in June.