ALA Awards 2008: Newbery, Caldecott, and many more
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The Kiddosphere @ Fauqiuer has an informative post A New Year and a New Newbery on the awards process that also includes a compilation of links to groups that are hosting Mock Newbery Awards (for example, see the ACPL Mock Newbery Results and Anderson’s Bookshop Candidates). The Kiddosphere @ Fauquier also has its own Newbery prediction in the post New Newbery Favorite.
As for my own predictions, I’ll just throw out a few of my favorites for the Newbery: A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban, No Talking by Andrew Clements, and The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt. These books seem to fit well with the ALA defined criteria for the award.
But the awards go beyond the Newbery and the Caldecott. The following award information is from the press release about the live webcast offered by ALA regarding the awards. Awards to be announced on January 14th include:
- Alex Awards: for the best adult books that appeal to a teen audience
- Andrew Carnegie Medal: for excellence in children’s video
- Coretta Scott King Book Award: recognizing an African American author and illustrator of books for children and young adults that reflect the best in artistic and literary expression of the Black experience in a pluralistic society
- John Newbery Medal: for the most distinguished contribution to children’s literature
- Margaret A. Edwards Award: for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults
- May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award: recognizing an author, critic, librarian, historian, or teacher of children’s literature, who then presents a lecture at a winning host site
- Michael L. Printz Award: for excellence in literature written for young adults
- Mildred L. Batchelder Award: for an outstanding children’s book translated from a foreign language in a foreign country and subsequently published in English in the United States
- Odyssey Award: for excellence in audiobook production for youth
- Pura Belpré Award: recognizing 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
- Randolph Caldecott Medal: for the most distinguished American picture book for children
- Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award: for most distinguished informational book for children
- Schneider Family Book Award for books: that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience
- Theodor Seuss Geisel Award: for the most distinguished book for beginning readers
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