Award Winners
The 2009 ALSC Award Winners:
Newbery Medal:
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Newbery Honor Books:
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom” by Margarita Engle
Savvy by Ingrid Law
After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
Caldecott Medal
The House in the Night illustrated by Beth Krommes and written by Susan Marie Swanson.
Caldecott Honor Books:
A Couple of Boys Have The Best Week Ever by Marla Frazee
How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz
A River of Words: The story of William Carlos Williams illustrated by Melissa Sweet and written by Jen Bryant.
Geisel Award:
Are You Ready to Play Outside? written and illustrated by Mo Willems
Geisel Honor Books:
Chicken Said, “Cluck!” written by Judyann Ackerman Grant and illustrated by Sue Truesdell
One Boy written and illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Stinky written and illustrated by Eleanor Davis
Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator written by Sarah C. Campbell, photographs by Sarah C. Campbell and Richard P. Campbell
Wilder Medal
Ashley Bryan, author and illustrator of numerous books, including Dancing Granny, Beat the Story-Drumm, Pum-Pum, and Beautiful Blackbird.