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Award Winners

Caldecott Awards

2010

 
 Medal WInner: The Lion & The Mouse illustrated and written by Jerry Pinkney 


Honor Book: All The World illustrated by Marla Frazee, written by Liz Garton Scanlon


Honor Book: Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors by Joyce Sidman

2009


Medal Winner: The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson


Honor Book: A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever by Maria Frazee


Honor Book: How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz


Honor Book: A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams by Jen Bryant

2008


Medal Winner: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Seiznick


Honor Book: Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine


Honor Book: First the Egg by Laura Vaccaro Seeger


Honor Book: The Wall: Growing up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis


Honor Book: Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity by Mo Willems

2007


Medal Winner: Flotsam by David Wiesner


Honor Book: Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet by David McLimans


Honor Book: Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford

2006


Medal WInner: The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster


Honor Book: Rosa by Nikki Giovanni


Honor Book: Zen Shorts by Jon J. Muth


Honor Book: Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride by Marjorie Priceman

2005


Medal Winner: Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes


Honor Book: The Red Book by Barbara Lehman


Honor Book: Coming on Home Soon by Jacqueline Woodson


Honor Book: Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems

2004


Medal WInner: The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein


Honor Book: Ella Sarah Gets Dressed by Margaret Chodos-Irvine


Honor Book: What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page


Honor Book: Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems

2003


Medal Winner: My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann


Honor Book: The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt


Honor Book: Hondo & Fabian by Peter McCarty


Honor Book: Noah's Ark by Jerry Pinkney

2002


Medal Book: The Three Pigs by David Wiesner


Honor Book: The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins by Barbara Kerley


Honor Book: Martin's Big Words: the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Doreen Rappaport


Honor Book: The Stray Dog by Marc Simont

2001


Medal Winner: So You Want to Be President? by Judith St. George


Honor Book: Casey at the Bat by Ernest Thayer


Honor Book: Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin


Honor Book: Olivia by Ian Falconer

 2000


Medal Winner: Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback


Honor Book: A Child's Calendar by Trina Schart Hyman


Honor Book: Sector 7 by David Wiesner


Honor Book: When Sophi Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry by Molly Bang


Honor Book: The Ugly Ducking by Jerry Pinkney

Awards Matter

Awards matter, especially in children’s books.  Make no bones about it; in a world where children’s books are produced in mass quantity, and by anybody with a computer, children’s book awards absolutely matter.   
 
Children’s book awards tell the authors, illustrators and publishers what is considered the most prolific and successful children’s books.  This sets the bar for which they must strive to attain. 
 
Publishers value these awards for an additional reason.  Librarians often times select children’s book awards.  This is not always the case, but surely it more often than not.  This market, the library market, is still very relevant to most publishers, and the most popular children’s book awards not only honor the author/illustrator, but also generate a significant increase in sales.  This is really where the rubber hits the road, and a major factor in why children’s book awards are so important.
 
For authors and illustrators, becoming familiar with award-winning books is likely one of the most effective ways to better understand what the mainstream consumer base and industry experts consider to be the best books on the market today, rather than rely upon the children’s books that we where familiar with as a child many years ago.  It’s the absolute best way to keep the consumer and industry professionals relevant with what is current and in demand at the present time.
 
There are many children’s book awards out there these days.  The most popular are the Newbery Medal, Caldecott Medal and the Golden Kite Award. 
 
The Newbery Medal began awarding children’s book medals in 1922.   The John Newbery Medal was the first children’s literary award in the world.  John Newbery was an 18th century English publisher of juvenile books.  A medal has been presented annually to the writer/illustrator of the most prolific and distinguished literary contribution for children’s books published in the United States in the previous year.  The author/illustrator who receives the medal must be a citizen or residence of the United States.  The winner is announced at the annual American Library Association Midwinter meeting that is held at the beginning of each year, then the award is presented at the ALA summer conference each year.  When the winner is announced each January, bookstores all over the country immediately sell out of the winning books, librarians quickly order copies and teachers incorporate the book into their curriculum for the year.  Most bookstores and libraries have a Newbery section, as well.  Winning this award means instant fame and sometimes fortune for the authors. 
 
The Caldecott Medal is awarded each year by the ALSC, Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the ALA.  It is given to the most distinguished children’s picture book published during that year.  Famous 19th century illustrator by the name of Randolph Caldecott is the namesake of the Caldecott Medal.  The Caldecott is the second most popular and distinguished children’s book award, just after the Newbery Medal.  Specific criteria for the award is that the book must be published in English in the United States, the illustrations must be original to the artist, the artist must be a citizen of the United States, the book is considered primarily for the artistic technique used to illustrate the book; illustrative interpretation of the story; relevance of the style of illustration of the book; delineation of the theme, plot and characters in the book.  The children’s book must also depict respect for children’s understandings, appreciations and abilities.
 
The Golden Kite Award is presented each year by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators in an effort to recognize supreme talent in children’s literature.  The Golden Kite Award began in 1972, and is the only children’s book award judged by peers within the industry.  The award contains four categories: Picture Book Text, Picture Book Illustration, Fiction and Nonfiction.

Newbery Awards

 2010


Medal Winner: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead


Honor Book: Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose


Honor Book: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly


Honor Book: Where the Mountin Meets the Moon by Grace Lin


Honor Book: The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P Figg by Rodman Philbrick

2009


Medal Winner: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman


Honor Book: The Underneath by Kathi Appelt


Honor Book: The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle


Honor Book: Savvy by Ingrid Law


Honor Book: After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson

2008


Medal Winner: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz


Honor Book: Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis


Honor Book:The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt


Honor Book: Feathers by Jackueline Woodson

2007


Medal Winner: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron


Honor Book: Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm


Honor Book: Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson


Honor Book: Rules by Cynthia Lord

2006


Medal Book Winner: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins


Honor Book: Whittington by Alan Armstrong


Honor Book: Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti


Honor Book: Princess Academy by Shannon Hale


Honor Book: Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson

2005


Medal Winner: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata


Honor Book: Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko


Honor Book: The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russel Freedman


Honor Book: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt

2004


Medal Winner: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo


Honor Book: Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes


Honor Book: An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy

2003


Medal Winner: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi


Honor Book: The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer


Honor Book: Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff


Honor Book: Hoot by Carl Hiaasen


Honor Book: A Corner of The Universe by Ann M. Martin


Honor Book: Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan

2002


Medal Winner: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park


Honor Book: Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath


Honor Book: Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson

2001


Medal WInner: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck


Honor Book: Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer


Honor Book: Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo


Honor Book: Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos

2000


Medal Book: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis


Honor Book: Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis


Honor Book: Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm


Honor Book: 26 Fairmont Avenue by Tomie dePaola