2011 Children's Book Award Winners

The Caldecott Metal
(Illustration)

A Sick Day For Amos McGee
illustrated by Erin E. Stead, written by Philip C. Stead. (Roaring Brook)

Caldecott Honor Books:

Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Laban Carrick Hill (Little Brown & Co.)

Interrupting Chicken written and illustrated by David Ezra Stein (Candlewick Press)

The Newbery Award

Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool (Random House)

Newbery Honor Books
(American Children's Literature)

Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm (Random House)

Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus (Abrams)

Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night
by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Rick Allen (Houghton Mifflin)

One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (HarperCollins)

Coretta Scott King Author Award
(African-American Author)

One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (HarperCollins)

Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor Books

Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers (HarperCollins)

Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes (Little Brown & Co.)

Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty
by G. Neri, illustrated by Randy DuBurke (Lee & Low)

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award
(African-American Illustrator)

Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Laban Carrick Hill (Little Brown & Co.)

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Honor Books

Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix
illustrated by Javaka Steptoe, written by Gary Golio (Houghton Mifflin)

Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Author Talent Award

Zora and Me by Victoria Bond and T. R. Simon (Candlewick Press)

Seeds of Change by Jen Cullerton Johnson, illustrated by Sonia Lynn Sadler (Lee & Low)

Michael L. Printz Award
(Young Adult)

Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi (Little Brown & Co.)

Michael L. Printz Award Honor Books

Stolen by Lucy Christopher (Scholastic)

Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King (Random House)

Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick (Roaring Brook)

Nothing by Janne Teller (Simon & Schuster)

Robert F. Sibert Medal
(Informational Books)

Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Bird
by Sy Montgomery, illustrated by Nic Bishop (Houghton Mifflin)

Robert F. Sibert Honor Books

Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring
by Jan Greenberg & Sandra Jordan, illustrated by Brian Floca (Roaring Brook)

Lafayette and the American Revolution by Russell Freedman (Holiday House)

Theodore Seuss Geisel Award
(American book for beginning readers)

Bink and Gollie
by Kate diCamillo & Alison McGee, illustrated by Tony Fucile (Candlewick Press)

Theodore Seuss Geisel Honor Books

Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same!written & illustrated by Grace Lin (Little Brown & Co.)

We Are in a Book! written & illustrated by Mo Willems (Hyperion)

Schneider Family Book Award
(Honors an author or illustrator for the artistic expression of the disability experience for children and teens)

Children's

The Pirate of Kindergarten
written by George Ella Lyon, illustrated by Lynjne Avril (Simon & Schuster)

Middle School

After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick (Scholastic)

Teen

Five Flavors of Dumb by Antony John (Penguin)

Pura Belpre Author Award
(Latin American Author)

The Dreamer
written by Pam Munoz Ryan, illustrated by Peter Sis (Scholastic)

Pura Belpre Illustrator Award
(Latin American Illustrator)

Grandma's Gift
written and illustrated by Eric Valasquez (Walker)

Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
(Sir Terry Pratchett)

Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (HarperCollins)

The Wee Free Men (HarperCollins)

A Hat Full of Sky (HarperCollins)

Going Postal (HarperCollins)

The Colour of Magic (HarperCollins)

Guards! Guards! (HarperCollins)

Equal Rites (HarperCollins)

Mort (HarperCollins)

Small Gods (HarperCollins)

Laura Ingalls Wilder Award Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
(Tomie dePaola)