BCCB--1997 Award Winners

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The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books:
1997 Award Winners

The Newbery Medal will be awarded to E. L. Konigsburg for The View From Saturday (Karl/Atheneum). The Newbery Honor Books are A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer (Jackson/Orchard), The Moorchild by Eloi se McGraw (McElderry), The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow), and Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White (Farrar).
The Caldecott Medal will be awarded to David Wisniewski for Golem (Clarion). The Caldecott Honor Books are Hush!: A Thai Lullaby, written by Minfong Ho and illustrated by Holly Meade (Kroupa/Orchard), The Graphic Alphabet, illustrated by David Pelletier (Orchard), The Paperboy, written and illustrated by Dav Pilkey (Jackson/Orchard), and Starry Messenger, written and illustrated by Peter S’s (Foster/Farrar).
The Coretta Scott King Award will be presented to Walter Dean Myers, author of Slam! (Scholastic Press), for writing and to Jerry Pinkney for Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman, written by Alan Schroeder (Dial), for illustration. The King Honor Book for writing is Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack's Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts (Scholastic Press). King Honor Books for illustration are The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children, edited by Davida Adedjouma and illustrated by Gregory Christie (Lee & Low), Running the Road to ABC, written by Denize Lauture and illustrated by Reynold Ruffins (Simon & Schuster), and Neeny Coming, Neeny Going, written by Karen English and illustrated by Synthia Saint James (BridgeWater Books).
The American publisher receiving the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for the most outstanding translation of a book originally published in a foreign language is Farrar Straus Giroux for Kazumi Yumoto's The Friends.
The 1998 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture will be delivered by Susan Hirschman.
Gary Paulsen is the 1997 winner of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for Outstanding Literature For Young Adults honoring an author's lifetime contribution in writing books for teenagers.
The ALSC Distinguished Service Award goes to Zena Sutherland.
The Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction goes to Katherine Paterson's Jip: His Story (Lodestar).
The Canadian Library Association's Best Book of the Year for Children is The Tiny Kite of Eddie Wing by Maxine Trottier (Kane/Miller). The Best Book of the Year for Young Adults is The Maestro by Tim Wynne-Jones (Kroupa/Orchard). The Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award goes to Karen Reczuch for Just Like New, written by Ainslie Manson (Groundwood).
The Carnegie Medal was awarded to Philip Pullman for Northern Lights (His dark materials: book 1) , published in the U.S. as The Golden Compass (Knopf).
The Kate Greenaway Medal was awarded to P. J. Lynch for The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey, written by Susan Wojciechowski (Candlewick).
The Hans Christian Andersen Medal for writing goes to Uri Orlev of Israel; the illustration medal goes to Klaus Ensikat of Germany.
NCTE's Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children goes to Leonardo da Vinci by Diane Stanley (Morrow); Honor Books are Full Steam Ahead: The Race to Build a Transcontinental Railroad by Rhoda Blumbe rg (National Geographic), The Life and Death of Crazy Horse by Russell Freedman (Holiday House), and One World, Many Religions: The Ways We Worship by Mary Pope Osborne (Knopf).
The Pura Belpré Medal for narrative was awarded to Judith Ortiz Cofer forAn Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio (Melanie Kroupa / Orchard Books, 1995). The medal for illustration wen t to Susan Guevara for Chato's Kitchen written by Gary Soto (Putnam, 1995). Honor books for narrative include The Bossy Gallito = El Gallo de Bodas: A Traditional Cuban Folktale retold by Luc&iacutea Gonz&aacutelez and illustrated by Lulu Delacre (Scholastic, 1994) and Baseball in April, and Other Stories writ ten by Soto, Gary (Harcourt, 1994). Honor books for illustration include Pablo Remembers: The Fiesta of the Day of the Dead by George Ancona (Lothrop, 1993); The Bossy Gallito = El Gallo de Bodas: A Traditional Cuban Folktale retold by Luc&iacutea Gonz&aacutelez and illust rated by Lulu Delacre (Scholastic, 1994); and Family Pictures = Cuadros de Familia by Carmen Lomas Garza with Spanish language text by Rosalma Zubizaretta (Children's Book Press, 1990).
Aesop Prize Winners include Next Year in Jerusalem retold by Howard Schwartz and illustrated by Neil Waldman (Viking, 1996) and Nursery Tales Around the World retold by Judy Sierra and illustrated by Stefano Vitale (Clarion Books, 1996).

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