John Newbery Medal for most outstanding contribution to children’s literature
Winner:
When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead. Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books. "That is a lot of hype to live up to, and it's sometimes unfair to the book that you go in expecting greatness instead of just hoping for a "good read." So when the book DOES deliver everything people said, and more? You know it's a damn good book."
Honor Books:
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose. Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar Straus Giroux, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group. "Claudette Colvin should be required reading in law schools."
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly. Henry Holt and Company. "For having such fully realized characters; and for Kelly not telling us everything about Callie and her world and family, and rather telling us just enough; this is one of my favorite books of 2009."
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Randolph Caldecott Medal for most distinguished American picture book for children
Winner
The Lion & the Mouse
Honor Books:
All the World
Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors
Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults
Winner:
Going Bovine by Libba Bray. Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House. "It's a joy to discover just how multi-talented Bray is, because all you can think is "Holy Hannah, what is she going to do next?""
Honor Books
Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman. Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group. "People can disagree and yet still love and respect each other. Darwin believed that God played no role in natural selection or evolution; Wedgwood (religious but not a literalist in her belief) disagreed. While they argued the point, it did not control their lives, their love, or their relationship."
The Monstrumologist
Punkzilla
Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance 1973
by John Barnes. Viking Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group.
Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award recognizing an African American author and illustrator of outstanding books for children and young adults
Winner:
Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal
Honor Book
Mare’s War by Tanita S. Davis. Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc. "The classic road trip story is tweaked a little bit, bringing in grandmother. So instead of wild and crazy times, it's a journey of discovery. [Grandmother] Mare (Marey Lee Boylen)'s story of her teenage years takes her from Alabama to England; because when Mare was a teenager, she ran away from home and joined the Army."
Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book Award
Winner
My People
Honor Book
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award
The Rock and the River
Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement
Walter Dean Myers
Pura Belpré (Illustrator) Award honoring a Latino writer and illustrator whose children’s books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience
Winner:
Book Fiesta!: Celebrate Children's Day/Book Day; Celebremos El dia de los ninos/El dia de los libros
Honor Books:
Diego: Bigger Than Life
My Abuelita
Gracias Thanks, illustrated by John Parra, written by Pat Mora. Lee & Low Books Inc. "The book is both mirror and window; when you see a ladybug, is it window or mirror? When a boy gives gives thanks for his "Abuelita," is it window or mirror?"
Pura Belpré (Author) Award
Winner:
Return to Sender
Honor Books
Diego: Bigger Than Life by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand, illustrated by David Diaz. Marshall Cavendish Children
Federico Garcia Lorca (Cuando Los Grandes Eran Pequenos/ When the Grown-Ups Were Children)
Schneider Family Book Award for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience
Django
Anything But Typical
Marcelo in the Real World
William C. Morris Award honors a book written by a first-time author for young adults
Winner:
Flash Burnout by L.K. Madigan. Houghton Mifflin, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. "A perfect romance, written from a teenage boy's point of view."
Odyssey Award for excellence in audiobook production
Winner:
Louise, The Adventures of a Chicken
Honor Audiobooks
In the Belly of the Bloodhound: Being an Account of a Particularly Peculiar Adventure in the Life of Jacky Faber
Peace, Locomotion
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
produced by Brilliance Audio, written by Kadir Nelson and narrated by Dion Graham.
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for most distinguished beginning reader book
Winner:
Benny And Penny in The Big No-No
Honor Books:
I Spy Fly Guy
Little Mouse Gets Ready
Mouse & Mole, Fine Feathered Friends
Pearl and Wagner: One Funny Day
Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults
Jim Murphy
Robert F. Sibert Medal for most distinguished informational book for children
Winner:
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone. Candlewick Press. "It's refreshing to read a book that has such a firm, enthusiastic, unapologetic point of view. It's also a gutsy way to tell the book because not everyone is going to like that position taking with their nonfiction."
Honor Books:
The Day-Glo Brothers
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose. Melanie Kroupa/Farrar Straus Giroux, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group.
YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award
Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman. Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group.
Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in children’s video
Paul R. Gagne and Mo Willems of Weston Woods, producers of “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!”
Mildred L. Batchelder Award for an outstanding children’s book translated from a foreign language and subsequently published in the United States
A Faraway Island
Honor Books
Big Wolf and Little Wolf
Eidi
Moribito II: Guardian Of The Darkness
Alex Awards for the 10 best adult books that appeal to teen audiences
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
The Bride's Farewell
Everything Matters!
The Good Soldiers
The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir
The Magicians: A Novel
My Abandonment
Soulless (The Parasol Protectorate)
Stitches: A Memoir
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories (P.S.)
May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award recognizing an author, critic, librarian, historian or teacher of children's literature, who then presents a lecture at a winning host site
Lois Lowry
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