[readers-advisory] Award Winners

[Alan Nichter]

ALSC announced the award winners yesterday morning.  Additional copies of all titles have been ordered.
Susan

Newbery Medal
Kira-Kira, by Cynthia Kadohata, Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster

Newbery Honor Books
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by Gary D. Schmidt, Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Company

Al Capone Does My Shirts, by Gennifer Choldenko, G.P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin Young Readers Group

The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights, by Russell Freedman, Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Company

Caldecott Medal
Kitten's First Full Moon, by Kevin Henkes, Greenwillow Books/HarperCollinsPublishers

Caldecott Honor Books
The Red Book, by Barbara Lehman, Houghton Mifflin Company

Coming on Home Soon, by illustrated by E.B. Lewis, written by Jacqueline Woodson, G.P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin Young Readers Group

Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, by Mo Willems, Hyperion Books for Children

Batchelder Award
Delacorte Press/Random House Children's Books, publisher of The Shadows of Ghadames , by Joëlle Stolz, translated from the French by Catherine Temerson

Batchelder Honor Book
Farrar Straus Giroux, publisher of The Crow-Girl: The Children of Crow Cove, by Bodil Bredsdorff, translated from the Danish by Faith Ingwersen

A Richard Jackson Book, Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, publisher of Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi, by David Chotjewitz, translated from the German by Doris Orgel

Sibert Medal
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights, by Russell Freedman, Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Company

Sibert Honor Books
Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing, by James Rumford, translated into Cherokee by Anna Sixkiller Huckaby, Houghton Mifflin Company

The Tarantula Scientist, by Sy Montgomery, photographs by Nic Bishop, Houghton Mifflin Company

Walt Whitman: Words for America, by Barbara Kerley, illustrated by Brian Selznick, Scholastic Press/Scholastic Inc.

Wilder Medal
Laurence Yep, award-winning author of books for young people

Carnegie Medal
Paul R. Gagne and Melissa Reilly of Weston Woods Studios, producers of "The Dot," in association with FableVision, based on the book by Peter H. Reynolds

2006 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecturer
Russell Freedman, renowned author of outstanding nonfiction books for children and adults



Alan Nichter
Adult Materials Selection
Hillsborough County Public Library System