Awards

2001 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards:For fiction and poetry, Carver: A Life in Poemsby Marilyn Nelson (Front Street, 2001); for nonfiction, The Longitude Prize by Joan Dash, illustrated by Dusan Petricic (Farrar/Frances Foster, 2000); for picture book, Cold Feet by Cynthia DeFelice, illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker (DK Ink, 2000). Honor books: for fiction and poetry, Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath (Farrar, 2001) and Troy by Adèle Geras (Harcourt, 2001); for nonfiction, Rocks in His Head by Carol Otis Hurst, illustrated by James Stevenson (Greenwillow, 2001); Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa, written and illustrated by Don Brown (Houghton, 2000); for picture book, Five Creatures by Emily Jenkins, illustrated by Tomek Bogacki (Farrar/ Frances Foster, 2001); The Stray Dog, retold and illustrated by Marc Simont (HarperCollins, 2001).

2001 Audie Awards: Children's titles, ages 0–7, Ouch! by Natalie Babbitt, illustrated by Fred Marcellino, read by Martin Jarvis (Live Oak Media, 2000); children's titles, ages 8 and up: The Subtle Knife, read by Philip Pullman and a full cast (Random/Listening Library, 2000); solo narration, male: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling, read by Jim Dale (Random/Listening Library, 2000).

2001 Elizabeth Burr Award for a Wisconsin author/illustrator:Kathleen Krull for Lives of Extraordinary Women (Harcourt, 2000). Presented by the Wisconsin Library Association for distinguished achievement in children's literature.