The American Library Association announced their 2009 literary award winners this morning, including the winners of the Caldecott, Newbery, Sibert and Coretta Scott King awards. Here is a partial list of winners and Honor books:
Newbery Award: - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Newbery Honor Books:
- The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
- The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle
- Savvy by Ingrid Law
- After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
Caldecott Award:
- The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson
Caldecott Honor Books:
- A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever by Marla Frazee
- How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz
- A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams by Jen Bryant
Robert F. Sibert Award:
- We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson
Sibert Honor Books:
- What To Do About Alice? by Barbara Kerley
- Bodies From the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past by James M. Deem
Coretta Scott King Author Award:
- We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson
Coretta Scott King Author Honor Books:
- The Blacker the Berry by Joce Carol Thomas
- Keeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith
- Becoming Billie Holiday by Carol Boston Weatherford
For the complete list of ALA award winners, click here.
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