2009 ALSC Award Winners
January 26, 2009
This morning at 9am, the new ALSC award winning books for 2009 were announced! Below we have listed the Caldecott Medal and Honor Books; the Newbery Medal and Honor Books; the Printz Medal and Honor Books; and the Sibert Medal and Honor Books. Please click here to get the complete list of awards and the books they were bestowed upon this year.
Caldecott Medal:
The House in the Night, illustrated by Beth Krommes and written by Susan Marie Swanson, Houghton Mifflin Co.
Caldecott Honor Books:
A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever by Marla Frazee, Harcourt, Inc.
How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz, Farrar Straus Giroux
A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams, illustrated by Melissa Sweet and written by Jen Bryant, Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Newbery Medal:
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, HarperCollins Children’s Books
Newbery Honor Books:
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt, illustrated by David Small, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle, Henry Holt and Company, LLC
Savvy by Ingrid Law, Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group in partnership with Walden Media, LLC
After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, a division of Penguin Books for Young Readers
Printz Medal Book:
Melina Marchetta, author of Jellicoe Road, published by HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Printz Honor Books:
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II, The Kingdom on the Waves, by M.T. Anderson, published by Candlewick Press
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, by E. Lockhart, published by Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Nation, by Terry Pratchett, published by HarperCollins Children’s Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
Tender Morsels, by Margo Lanagan, published by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
Sibert Medal:
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson, Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Sibert Honor Books:
Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and Rediscovery of The Past, written by James M. Deem and published by Houghton Mifflin Company
What to Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy! written by Barbara Kerley, illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham and published by Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc.
