Newbery and Caldecott Medal Winners Announced

The ALA has announced the winners of the Newbery Medal and Caldecott Medal. The medals are given annually to children's books. Here is a list of the winners.

Newbery Medal
  • Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow Books)

    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)
  • 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)

    Caldecott Honor Books
  • Rosa illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Nikki Giovanni (Henry Holt)
  • 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 (Simon & Schuster)
  • Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems illustrated by Beckie Prange, written by Joyce Sidman (Houghton Mifflin Company)

    The Newbery and Caldecott are the most well-known of the ALSC medals but there are others including the Sibert Medal and Theodor Seuss Geisel Medal. A list of these winners can be found here


    Posted on January 25, 2006





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