2009 Literature Winners and Honors

2009 Newbery Medal: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, Illus. by Dave McKean

  • Honor: The Underneath by Kathi Appelt, Illus. by David Small
  • Honor: The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle
  • Honor: Savvy by Ingrid Law
  • Honor: After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson

 

2009 Caldecott Medal: Beth Krommes, illustrator of The House in the Night written by Susan Marie Swanson

  • Honor: A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever written and illustrated by Marla Frazee
  • Honor: How I Learned Geography written and illustrated by Uri Shulevitz
  • Honor: A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams illustrated by Melissa Sweet, written by Jen Bryant

 

2009 Coretta Scott King Author Award: We Are the Ship: The Story of the Negro League Baseball written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson

  • Honor: The Blacker the Berry by Joyce Carol Thomas, illustrated by Floyd Cooper
  • Honor: Keeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith, illustrated by E.B. Lewis
  • Honor: Becoming Billie Holiday by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Floyd Cooper

 

2009 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award: The Blacker the Berry illustrated by Floyd Cooper, written by Joyce Carol Thomas

  • Honor: We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson
  • Honor: Before John Was a Jazz Giant illustrated by Sean Qualls, written by Carole Boston Weatherford
  • Honor: The Moon Over Star illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, written by Dianna Hutts Aston

 

2009 Coretta Scott King New Talent Award: Shadra Strickland, illustrator of Bird written by Zetta Elliott

 

2009 Printz Medal: Jellico Road by Melina Marchetta

  • Honor: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Volume II: Kingdom on the Waves by M. T. Anderson
  • Honor: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
  • Honor: Nation by Terry Prachett
  • Honor: Tender Morsels y Margo Lanagan

 

2009 Batchelder Award: Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit by Nahoko Uehashi, translated from the Japanese by Cathy Hirano

  • Honor: Garmann’s Summer written and illustrated by Stian Hole, translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett
  • Honor: Tiger Moon written by Antonia Michaelis, translated from the German by Anthea Bell

 

2009 Pura Belpré Author Award: The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle

  • Honor: Just in Case by Yuyi Morales
  • Honor: Reaching Out by Francisco Jiménez
  • Honor: The Storyteller’s Candle/La velita de los cuentos by Lucia Gonzalez, illustrated by Lulu Delacre

 

2009 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award: Just in Case by Yuyi Morales

  • Honor: Papa and Me illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez, written by Arthur Dorros
  • Honor: The Storyteller’s Candle/La velita de los cuentos illustrated by Lulu Delacre, written by Lucia Gonzalez,
  • Honor: What Can You Do with a Rebozo illustrated by Amy Cordova, written by Carmen Tafolla

 

2009 Geisel Award: Are You Ready to Play Outside? written and illustrated by Mo Willems

  • Honor: Chicken Said, ‘Cluck!’ written by Judyann Ackerman Grant, illustrated by Sue Truesdell
  • Honor: One Boy written and illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
  • Honor: Stinky written and illustrated by Eleanor Davis
  • Honor: Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator written by Sarah C. Campbell, photographs by Sarah C. Campbell and Richard P. Campbell

 

2009 Odyssey Audiobook Award: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian written and narrated by Sherman Alexie

  • Honor: Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady written by L.A. Meyer, narrated by Katherine Kellgren
  • Honor: Elijah of Buxton written by Christopher Paul Curtis, narrated by Mirron Willis
  • Honor: I’m Dirty written by Kate and Jim McMullan, narrated by Steve Buscemi
  • Honor: Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale written and narrated by Carmen Agra Deedy
  • Honor: Nation written by Terry Pratchett, narrated by Stephen Briggs

 

2009 Sibert Medal: We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson

  • Honor: Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and Rediscovery of the Past written by James M. Deem
  • Honor: What to Do about Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy! written by Barbara Kerley, illusrated by Edwin Fotheringham

 

2009 Wilder Medal: Ashley Bryan, author and illustrator of numerous books, including Dancing Granny, Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum, and Beautiful Blackbird

 

2009 Margaret A. Edwards Award: Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak and Chains

 

2009 Cybils:

  • Beginning Readers: I Love My New Toy, by Mo Willems 
  • Fantasy & Science Fiction
    • Middle Grade: The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
    • Young Adult: The Hunger Games,by Suzanne Collins 
  • Fiction Picture Books: How to Heal a Broken Wing, by Bob Graham 
  • Graphic Novels
    • Elementary/Middle Grade: Rapunzel's Revenge,by Shannon Hale & Dean Hale, art by Nathan Hale
    • Young Adult: Emiko Superstar,written by Mariko Tamaki, art by Steve Ralston 
  • Middle-Grade Fiction: The London Eye Mystery, by Siobhan Dowd 
  • Nonfiction Picture Book: Nic Bishop Frogs, by Nic Bishop 
  • Nonfiction Middle-Grade/Young Adult Book: The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir, by Cylin and John Busby 
  • Poetry: Honeybee, by Naomi Shihab Nye 
  • Young Adult Fiction: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, by E. Lockhart

 

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