Newbery Awards

The 2008 Newbery and Caldecott Awards were recently announced.  The Newbery Award is given each year to the "author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children."  The Caldecott Award is given annually to the "artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children."  This year's winners are: 

Newbery Medal:

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!  Voices from a Medieval Village, by Laura Amy Schlitz

Newbery Honor books:

Elijah of Buxton, b Christopher Paul Curtis

The Wednesday Wars, by Gary D. Schmidt

Feathers, by Jacqueline Woodson

Caldecott Medal:

The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznick 

Caldecott Honor books:

Henry's Freedom Box, illus. by Kadir Nelson

First the Egg, by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

The Wall, by Peter Sis

Knuffle Bunny Too, by Mo Willems