ALA Awards - Today's the BIG day!!!!

You know I've been waiting for the awards to be announced, and today was the big day! Turns out I haven't read many of the winners, but we DO have some of them in our library, so woo-hoo for that. Here's a list of some of the winners. For all the award winners, go to this link at ALA.

HAPPY, HAPPY reading, and congratulations to all the winners of this year's awards!

Margaret A. Edwards Award
This award honors outstanding lifetime contribution to writing for teens.

The recipient of the 2009 Margaret A. Edwards Award is Laurie Halse Anderson, also the winner of this year's Scott O'Dell Award for historical fiction (see entry from a few days ago).

Newbery Medal

The Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

	Title	Author
	Newbery Medal and Honor Books and Poster 2009	-----------
	WINNER
	The Graveyard Book	Neil Gaiman
	HONORS
	The Underneath	Kathi Appelt
	The Surrender Tree	Margarita Engle
	Savvy	Ingrid Law
	After Tupac And D Foster	Jacqueline Woodson

Caldecott Medal

The Caldecott Medal is presented to the most distinguished American picture book for children.

	Title	Author
	Caldecott Medal and Honor Books and Poster 2009	-----------
	WINNER
	The House in the Night	Susan Marie Swanson
	HONORS
	Couple Of Boys Have The Best Week Ever	Marla Frazee
	How I Learned Geography	Uri Shulevitz
	River Of Words: The Story Of William Carlos Williams	Jennifer Bryant

Coretta Scott King Awards

The Coretta Scott King Awards recognize an African American author and illustrator of outstanding books for children and young adults that demonstrate sensitivity to "the true worth and value of all beings". The Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award is presented to a writer and/or illustrator at the beginning of their career as a published children's book creator.

WINNER
We Are The Ship	Kadir Nelson
HONORS
The Blacker the Berry	Joyce Carol Thomas
Keeping The Night Watch	Hope Anita Smith
Becoming Billie Holiday	Carole Boston Weatherford

Pura Belpré Award

The Pura Belpré Award is presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.

	WINNER AUTHOR AWARD
	The Surrender Tree	Margarita Engle
	HONORS
	Just In Case	Yuyi Morales
	Reaching Out	Francisco Jimenez
	The Storyteller's Candle = La Velita De Los Cuentos	Lucia M. Gonzalez

Robert F. Sibert Award

The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award is awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished informational book published in the English language during the preceding year.

Title	Author
Robert F. Sibert Award 2009	-----------
WINNER
We Are The Ship	Kadir Nelson
HONORS
Bodies From The Ice: Melting Glaciers And The Rediscovery Of The Past	James M. Deem
What To Do About Alice?	Barbara Kerley

Michael L. Printz Award

The Michael L. Printz Award is presented to a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature.

WINNER
Jellicoe Road	Melina Marchetta
HONORS
Kingdom On The Waves	M. T. Anderson
Disreputable History Of Frankie Landau-Banks	E. Lockhart
Nation	Terry Pratchett
Tender Morsels	Margo Lanagan