February 2005

Awards!

Newbery Award

Winner: Kira Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (Simon & Schuster)

Honors:

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion/Houghton Mifflin)

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko (Penguin Putnam)

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

Caldecott Award

Winner: Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow/HarperCollins)

Honors:

The Red Book by Barbara Lehman (Houghton Mifflin)

Coming on Home Soon written by Jacqueline Wilson, illustrated by E. B. Lewis (Penguin Putnam)

Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems (Hyperion Books)

Michael L. Printz Award

Winner: how I live now by Meg Rosoff (Random House/Wendy Lamb Books)

Honors:

Airborn by Kenneth Oppel (HarperCollins)

Chanda's Secret by Allan Stratton (Annick Press)

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion/Houghton Mifflin)

Coretta Scott King Book Award

Author Award

Author Winner: Remember: The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison (Houghton Mifflin)

Author Honors:

Fortune's Bones by Marilyn Nelson (Front Street)

Legend of Buddy Bush by Sheila P. Moses (Simon & Schuster)

Who Am I Without Him? by Sharon G. Flake (Hyperion)

Illustrator Award

Illustrator Winner: Ellington Was Not a Street illustrated by Kadir Nelson (written by Ntozake Shange) (Simon & Schuster)

Illustrator Honor: God Bless the Child illustrated by Jerry Pinkney (written by Billie Holiday) (HarperCollins)

Jazzy Mizz Mozetta illustrated by Frank Morrison (written by Brenda C. Roberts) (Farrer, Strauss and Giroux)

People Could Fly illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon (written by Virginia Hamilton) (Knopf)

Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Author Talent Award

Winner: Missy Violet and Me by Barbara Hathaway (Houghton Mifflin)

John Steptoe New Author Talent Award

Winner: Jazzy Mizz Mozetta illustrated by Frank Morrison, written by Brenda C. Roberts (Farrer, Strauss and Giroux)