Award-winning Books for Children

Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award
http://www.rebeccacaudill.org
An award for outstanding literature for children in grades 4 – 8. Illinois children vote on the winner from a master list of 20 nominees.

2008 Rebecca Caudill Award Winner:

Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick ...Read more... Check the Catalog

Monarch Award
http://www.islma.org/monarch.htm
Illinois' K-3 Children's Choice Award.

2008 Monarch Award Winner:

If I Built a Car by Chris Van Dusen ...Read more... Check the Catalog

Newbery Medal and Honor Books
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/newberymedal/newberymedal.htm
Awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

2009 Newbery Medal Winner:

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman ...Read more... Check the Catalog

The Underneath by Kathi Appelt ...Read more... Check the Catalog

The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle ...Read more... Check the Catalog

Savvy by Ingrid Law ...Read more... Check the Catalog

After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson ...Read more... Check the Catalog

Caldecott Medal and Honor Books
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/caldecottmedal/caldecottmedal.htm
Awarded annually to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.

2009 Caldecott Medal:

The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson ...Read more... Check the Catalog

A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever by Marla Frazee ...Read more... Check the Catalog

How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz ...Read more... Check the Catalog

A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams by Jen Bryant ...Read more... Check the Catalog

2009 Coretta Scott King Author Award:

We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson ...Read more... Check the Catalog

Keeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith ...Read more... Check the Catalog

The Blacker the Berry by Joyce Carol Thomas ...Read more... Check the Catalog

Becoming Billie Holiday by Carole Boston Weatherford ...Read more... Check the Catalog

National Book Awards Winner Young People's Literature
http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2008_ypl_blundell.html

2008 National Book Award – Young People’s Literature:

What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell ...Read more... Check the Catalog

Charlotte Zolotow Award
http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/zolotow.asp
Given annually to the author of the best picture book text published in the United States in the preceding year.

2009 Charlotte Zolotow Award Winner:

How to Heal a Broken Wing by Bob Graham ...Read more... Check the Catalog

In a Blue Room by Jim Averbeck ...Read more... Check the Catalog

A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams by Jen Bryant ...Read more... Check the Catalog

How Mama Brought the Spring by Fran Manushkin ...Read more... Check the Catalog

Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad by James Rumford ...Read more... Check the Catalog

How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz ...Read more... Check the Catalog

Notable Children’s Books (American Library Association)
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/childrensnotable/notablechibooks/index.cfm

Edgar Allan Poe Award (Mystery Writers of America)
http://www.mysterywriters.org/index.htm

2008 Best Juvenile Mystery:

The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh ...Read more... Check the Catalog

The Schneider Family Book Award
http://www.ala.org/ala/awardsbucket/schneideraward/schneiderawardrecipients.htm
Awarded to an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.

2008 Young Children’s Book:

Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum by Robert Andrew Parker ...Read more... Check the Catalog

Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor ...Read more... Check the Catalog

Jerk, California by Jonathan Friesen ...Read more... Check the Catalog

The Pura Belpré Award
http://www.ala.org/
"Presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth."

2009 Pura Belpre Award:
For narrative:

The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle ...Read more... Check the Catalog

Just In Case: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet Book by Yuyi Morales ...Read more... Check the Catalog

Reaching Out by Francisco Jimenez ...Read more... Check the Catalog

The Storyteller's Candle/La velita de los cuentos by Lucia Gonzalez ...Read more... Check the Catalog

For illustration:

Just In Case: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet Book by Yuyi Morales ...Read more... Check the Catalog

The Michael J. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/printzaward/Printz,_Michael_L__Award.htm
Awarded annually to a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature.

2009 Michael J. Printz Award:

Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta ...Read more... Check the Catalog

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II, The Kingdom on the Waves by M.T. Anderson ...Read more... Check the Catalog

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Bank by E. Lockhart ...Read more... Check the Catalog

Nation by Terry Pratchett ...Read more... Check the Catalog

Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan ...Read more... Check the Catalog

Best Books for Young Adults (American Library Association)
http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/bestbooksyoung.htm