Children's and Young Adult Book and Media Award Winners
January 22, 2007
The American Library Association announced the 2007 awards for outstanding young peoples' literature and media at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington. Congratulations to the following authors, illustrators, and children's video producers for their award-winning works! Click an author's name to find more titles available for checkout at Skokie Public Library.
Alex Awards
...best adult books that appeal to teens ages 12 to 18
- The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
- The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
- Eagle Blue: A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska by Michael D'Orso
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- Color of the Sea by John Hamamura
- The Floor of the Sky by Pamela Carter Joern
- The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis
- Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
- The World Made Straight by Ron Rash
- The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Andrew Carnegie Medal
...outstanding American video production for children
- Knuffle Bunny, produced by Weston Woods Studios; based on the book by Mo Willems
Caldecott Medal
...outstanding illustration of a young people's book published in the United States
- Flotsam, illustrated by David Wiesner
Caldecott Honor
- Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet, written and illustrated by David McLimans
- Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, illustrated by Kadir Nelson; written by Carole Boston Weatherford
Coretta Scott King Award
...honoring African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books for young people
King Award book - author
- Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
King Award book - illustrator
- Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, illustrated by Kadir Nelson; written by Carole Boston Weatherford
King Honor book - author
- The Road to Paris by Nikki Grimes
King Honor book - illustrator
- Jazz, illustrated by Christopher Myers; written by Walter Dean Myers
- Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes, illustrated by Benny Andrews; edited by David Roessel and Arnold Rampersad
John Steptoe New Talent Author Award
...affirming new talent and offering visibility to excellence in writing and/or illustration
- Standing Against the Wind by Traci L. Jones
Michael L. Printz Award
...excellence in young adult literature
- American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
Printz Honor
- The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; v. 1: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson
- An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
- Surrender by Sonya Hartnett
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Mildred L. Batchelder Award
...outstanding children's book originally published in a foreign language and translated into English for publication in the United States
- The Pull of the Ocean by Jean-Claude Mourlevat; translated from the French by Y. Maudet
Batchelder Honor
- The Killer's Tears by Anne-Laure Bondoux; translated from the French by Y. Maudet
- The Last Dragon by Silvana De Mari; translated from the Italian by Shaun Whiteside
Newbery Medal
...outstanding writing of a young people's book published in the United States
- The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
Newbery Honor
- Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
- Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
- Rules by Cynthia Lord
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal
...distinguished informational book for children
- Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh
Sibert Honor
- Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement by Ann Bausum
- Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea by Sy Montgomery; photographs by Nic Bishop
- To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel by Siena Cherson Siegel; artwork by Mark Siegel
Schneider Family Book Award
...honoring the author or illustrator of book that artistically portrays the physical, emotional, or mental disability experience for children and teens
Young Children's category
- The Deaf Musicians by Pete Seeger and Paul DuBois Jacobs; illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
Middle School category
- Rules by Cynthia Lord
Teen category
- Small Steps by Louis Sachar
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award
...honoring the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished contribution to children’s beginning reader books published in the United States
- Zelda and Ivy: The Runaways, written and illustrated by Laura McGee Kvasnosky
Geisel Honor
- Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride by Kate DiCamillo; illustrated by Chris Van Dusen
- Move Over, Rover! by Karen Beaumont; illustrated by Jane Dyer
- Not a Box, written and illustrated by Antoinette Portis
Laura Ingalls Wilder Award
...honoring a substantial and lasting contribution to children's literature
- James Marshall, author/illustrator of George and Martha, Fox, The Cut Ups, and Goldilocks and the Three Bears