
ALA Youth Media Awards Mark your calendars! The 2010 ALA Youth Media Awards wil be held during the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Boston on Monday, January 18, at the Boston Convention and Exhbition Center! The announcements will begin at 7:45 a.m. and will be once again covered on Twitter (www.twitter.com/alayma).
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This concludes the 2009 Youth Media Awards. A complete listing of winners will be posted to this page later today.
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Newbery Medal: Neil Gaiman, author of “The Graveyard Book,” illustrated by Dave McKean
The book is published by HarperCollins Children’s Books.

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Four Newbery Honor Books were named:
Newbery Honor Book: “The Underneath” by Kathi Appelt, illustrated by David Small
The book is published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
Newbery Honor Book: “The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom” by Margarita ...Engle and published by Henry Holt and Company LLC
Newbery Honor Book: “Savvy” by Ingrid Law
The book published by Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group in partnership with Walden Media, LLC
Newbery Honor Book: “After Tupac & D Foster” by Jacqueline Woodson
The book is published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, a division of Penguin Books for Young Readers.

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John Newbery Medal for the most distinguished contribution to children’s literature.

ALA Youth Media Awards Caldecott Medal: Beth Krommes, illustrator of “The House in the Night,” written by Susan Marie Swanson

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Three Caldecott Honor Books were named:
Caldecott Honor Book: “A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever,” written and illustrated by Marla Frazee and published by Harcourt, Inc.
Caldecott Honor Book: “How I Learned Geography,” written and illustrated by Uri Shulevitz and published by Farrar Straus Giroux
Caldecott Honor ...Book“A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams,” illustrated by Melissa Sweet, written by Jen Bryant
The book is published by Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

ALA Youth Media Awards Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children.

ALA Youth Media Awards Geisel Award: “Are You Ready to Play Outside?” written and illustrated by Mo Willems The book is published by Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group

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Four Geisel Honor Books were named:
Geisel Honor Book: “Chicken said, ‘Cluck!’” by Judyann Ackerman Grant, illustrated by Sue Truesdell
The book is published by HarperCollins Children’s Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
Geisel Honor Book: “One Boy” written and illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger, a Neal Por...ter Book
The book is published by Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership
Geisel Honor Book: “Stinky” written and illustrated by Eleanor Davis and published by The Little Lit Library, a division of RAW Junior, LLC
Geisel Honor Book: “Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator” by Sarah C. Campbell, with photographs by Sarah C. Campbell and Richard P. Campbell
The book is published by Boyds Mills Press.

ALA Youth Media Awards Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for the most distinguished book for beginning readers.

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Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in children's video.
Carnegie Medal: Paul R. Gagne and Melissa Reilly of Weston Woods Studios, producers of “March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World”

ALA Youth Media Awards The Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, established in 1954, honors an author or illustrator whose books are published in the United States, and have made a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children. Wilder Award: Ashley Bryan. His numerous works include “Dancing Granny,” “Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum,” and “Beautiful Blackbird.”
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