Caldecott
Award
(Awarded to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for
children)
Caldecott Medal Winner
Pinkney, Jerry. The Lion & the Mouse. Little, Brown and Company for Young Readers.
Caldecott Honor Books
Scanlon, Liz Garton. All the World. Illus. Marla Frazee. Beach Lane Books.
Sidman, Joyce. Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors. Illus. Pamela Zagarenski. Houghton Mifflin Books for Children.
Newbery
Award
(Awarded to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American
literature for children)
Newbery Medal Winner
Stead, Rebecca. When You Reach Me. Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books.
Newbery Honor Books
Hoose, Phillip. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice. Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar Straus Giroux, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group.
Kelly, Jacqueline. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate. Henry Holt and Company.
Lin, Grace. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. Little, Brown and Company for Young Readers.
Philbrick, Rodman. The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg. The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic.
Comstock Book Award
(Honors authors and illustrators for the best book to read aloud to children from ages 9-12)
Comstock Award Book
Deedy, Carmen Agra. 14 Cows for America. In collaboration with Wilson Kimel Naiyomah; Illus. Thomas Gonzalez. Peachtree.
Comstock Honor Book
Van Dusen, Chris. The Circus Ship. Candlewick Press.
Wanda Gág Book Award
(Honors authors and illustrators for the best book to read aloud to children from toddlers through age 8)
Wanda Gág Award Book
Redmond, E.S. Felicity Floo Visits the Zoo. Candlewick Press.
Wanda Gág Honor Books
Ketteman, Helen. The Three Little Gators. Illus. Will Terry. Albert Whitman & Company.
Wright, Maureen. Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep! Illus. Will Hillenbrand. Marshall Cavendish Children.
(Honors African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books for children and young adults)
Author Award Winner
Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux. Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal. Illus. R. Gregory Christie. Carolrhoda Books, a division of Lerner Publishing.
Author Honor Book
Davis, Tanita S. Mare’s War. Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books.
Illustrator Award Winner
Hughes, Langston. My People. Illus. Charles R. Smith Jr. Ginee Seo Books, Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
Illustrator Honor Book
Hughes, Langston. The Negro Speaks of Rivers. Illus. E.B. Lewis. Disney-Jump at the Sun Books, an imprint of Disney Book Group.
Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award
(Awarded to
a black author and/or a black illustrator for an outstanding book written at
the beginning of the writer or artist’s career)
Author Award Winner
Magoon, Kekla. The Rock and the River. Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing.
Coretta Scott King/Virginia Hamilton Award
for Lifetime Achievement
(Awarded to a
black author and/or a black illustrator and practitioners for lasting and
significant contributions to youth or young adult literature)
Walter Dean Myers
Pura Belpré Award
(Honors
Latino authors and illustrators whose work best portrays, affirms and celebrates
the Latino cultural experience in children’s books)
Author Award Winner
Alvarez, Julia. Return to Sender. Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books.
Author Honor Books
Bernier-Grand, Carmen T. Diego: Bigger Than Life. Illus. David Diaz. Marshall Cavendish Children.
Lázaro, Georgina. Federico García Lorca. Illus. Enrique S. Moreiro. Lectorum Publications.
Illustrator Award
Mora, Pat. Book Fiesta!: Celebrate Children’s Day/Book Day. Illus. Rafael López. Rayo, an imprint of HarperCollins.
Illustrator Honor Books
Bernier-Grand, Carmen T. Diego: Bigger Than Life. Illus. David Diaz. Marshall Cavendish Children.
Johnston, Tony. My Abuelita. Illus. Yuyi Morales. Harcourt Children’s Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Mora, Pat. Gracias Thanks. Illus. John Parra. Lee & Low Books.
Mildred L. Batchelder Award(Awarded to an American publisher for the most outstanding children’s book translated from a foreign language and subsequently published in the United States)
Batchelder Winner
Thor, Annika. A Faraway Island. Trans. from Swedish by Linda Schenck. Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books.
Batchelder Honor Book
Bredsdorff, Bodil. Eidi. Trans. from Danish by Kathryn Mahaffy. Farrar Staus Giroux.
Brun-Cosme, Nadine. Big Wolf and Little Wolf. Illus. Olivier Tallec. Trans. from French by Claudia Bedrick. Enchanted Lion Books.
Uehashi, Nahoko. Moribito II: Guardian of Darkness. Illus. Yuko Shimizu. Trans. from Japanese by Cathy Hirano. Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic.
Schneider Family Book Award
(Honors an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences in three age categories)
Ages 0-10
Christensen, Bonnie. Django. Neal Porter Book, Roaring Brook Press.
Ages 11-13
Baskin, Nora Raleigh. Anything but Typical. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
Ages 13-18
Stork, Francisco X. Marcelo in the Real World. Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic.
Theodor Seuss Geisel Beginning Reader Award
(Honors an author/illustrator for the most distinguished beginning reader book)
Geisel Award Books
Hayes, Geoffrey. Benny and Penny in the Big No-No! TOON BOOKS, a division of RAW Junior.
Geisel Honor Books
Arnold, Tedd. I Spy Fly Guy!. Scholastic.
McMullan, Kate. Pearl and Wagner: One Funny Day. Illus. R.W. Alley. Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group.
Smith, Jeff. Little Mouse Gets Ready. TOON BOOKS, a division of RAW Junior.
Yee, Wong Herbert. Mouse and Mole: Fine Feathered Friends. Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Robert F.
Sibert Informational Book Award
(Awarded to the author of the most distinguished informational book
for children)
Sibert Winner
Stone, Tanya Lee. Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream. Candlewick Press.
Sibert Honor Books
Barton, Chris. The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer’s Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors. Illus. Tony Persiani. Charlesbridge.
Floca, Brian. Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11. Richard Jackson/Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
Hoose, Phillip. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice. Malanie Kroupa/Farrar Straus Giroux, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group.
Michael
L. Printz Award
(Awarded for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult
literature)
Printz Award Winner
Bray, Libba. Going Bovine. Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books.
Printz Honor Books
Barnes, John. Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973. Viking Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group.
Heiligman, Deborah. Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith. Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group.
Rapp, Adam. Punkzilla. Candlewick Press.
Yancey, Rick. The Monstrumologist. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award
(An award for the best nonfiction book published for young adults)
Heiligman, Deborah. Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith. Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group.
William C. Morris Award
(Honors a debut book by a first-time author writing for teens. Celebrates impressive new voices in young adult literature)
Madigan, L.K. Flash Burnout. Houghton Mifflin.
Andrew Carnegie Medal
(For excellence in children’s video)
Willems, Mo and Paul R. Gagne. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! Narr. Jon Scieszka and Mo Willems. Annimation Pete List. Weston Woods.
Odyssey Award(For
excellence in audiobook production for children or teens)
DiCamillo, Kate. Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken. Narr. Barbara Rosenblat. Live Oak Media.
Odyssey Honor Titles
Meyer, L.A. In the Belly of the Bloodhound: Being an Account of a Particularly Peculiar Adventure in the Life of Jacky Faber. Narr. Katherine Kellgren. Listen & Live Audio.
Nelson, Kadir. We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball. Narr. Dion Graham. Brilliance Audio.
Woodson, Jacqueline.
Peace, Locomotion. Narr. Dion Graham.
Brilliance Audio.
Margaret
A. Edwards Award
(Honors lifetime contribution in writing for young adults)
Jim Murphy
May
Hill Arbuthnot Lecture Award
(Each year, an individual of distinction in the field of children's
literature is chosen to write and deliver a lecture that will make a
significant contribution to the world of children's literature)
Lois Lowry
Compiled by
Carol H. Sibley, Curriculum Librarian, Minnesota State University Moorhead,
Moorhead, Minnesota, from the American Library Association press release,
1/18/10; revised 6/10.