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Award Winners

2006 ALSC Award Winners

(snagged from this Web site: http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/2006MediaAwardWinners.htm)

In order to post the winning information as expeditiously as possible, we are providing a straight list of 2006 ALSC award winners, including book title, author, and publisher. Additional information, including annotations and book cover images for each award-winning title, will be posted to the individual award pages as soon as possible.

Newbery Medal
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins)

Newbery Honor Books
Whittington by Alan Armstrong, illustrated by SD Schindler (Random House)
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Scholastic Nonfiction, an imprint of Scholastic)
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury Children's Books)
Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Hudson Talbott (G.P. Putnam's Sons)

Caldecott Medal
The Hello, Goodbye Window illustrated by Chris Raschka, written by Norton Juster (Michael di Capua Books, an imprint of Hyperion Books for Children)

Caldecott Honor Books
Rosa illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Nikki Giovanni (Henry Holt and Company)
Zen Shorts written and illustrated by Jon J Muth (Scholastic Press)
Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-air Balloon Ride written and illustrated by Marjorie Priceman (An Anne Schwartz Book from Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Simon & Schuster)
Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems illustrated by Beckie Prange, written by Joyce Sidman (Houghton Mifflin Company)

Batchelder Award
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. for An Innocent Soldier written by Josef Holub, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann

Batchelder Honor Books
Phaidon Press Limited for Nicholas written by René Goscinny, illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempé, and translated from the French by Anthea Bell
Bloomsbury Children's Books for When I Was a Soldier written by Valérie Zenatti and translated from the French by Adriana Hunter.

Sibert Medal
Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley written by Sally M. Walker (Carolrhoda Books, Inc., a division of Lerner Publishing Group)

Sibert Honor Book
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Scholastic Nonfiction, an imprint of Scholastic)

Belpré Author Medal
The Tequila Worm by Viola Canales (Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House)

Belpré Illustrator Medal
Doña Flor: A Tall Tale About a Giant Woman with a Great Big Heart illustrated by Raul Colón and written by Pat Mora (Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House)

Belpré Author Honor Books
César: ¡Sí, Se Puede! Yes, We Can! by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand, illustrated by David Diaz (Marshall Cavendish)
Doña Flor: A Tall Tale About a Giant Woman with a Great Big Heart written by Pat Mora and illustrated by Raul Colón (Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House)
Becoming Naomi León by Pam Muñoz Ryan (Scholastic Press)

Belpré Illustrator Honor Books
Arrorró, Mi Niño: Latino Lullabies and Gentle Games selected and illustrated by Lulu Delacre (Lee & Low Books, Inc.)
César: ¡Sí, Se Puede! Yes, We Can! illustrated by David Diaz, written by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand (Marshall Cavendish)
My Name is Celia/Me llamo Celia: The Life of Celia Cruz/La Vida de Celia Cruz illustrated by Rafael López, written by Monica Brown (Luna Rising, a bilingual imprint of Rising Moon)

Carnegie Medal
Michael Sporn, Michael Sporn Animation, Inc. and Paul Gagne and Melissa Reilly, Weston Woods Studio, producers of the video The Man Who Walked Between the Towers written by Mordicai Gerstein
2007 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecturer
Kevin Henkes

Theodor Seuss Geisel Medal
Henry and Mudge and the Great Grandpas written by Cynthia Rylant and illustrated by Sucie Stevenson (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Books
Hi! Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold (Cartwheel Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.)
A Splendid Friend, Indeed by Suzanne Bloom (Boyds Mills Press)
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa written by Erica Silverman and illustrated by Betsy Lewin (Harcourt, Inc.)
Amanda Pig and the Really Hot Day written by Jean Van Leeuwen and illustrated by Ann Schweninger (Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group)




The 2006 winners of ALSC's media awards.

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