The American Library Association (ALA) has announced the winners for the Newbery Award 2009 and the Caldecott 2009.
Newbery Award 2009: The Winners
The overall 2009 Newbery Award winner is Neil Gaiman for The Graveyard Book . The book was illustrated by Dave McKean and published by HarperCollins Children’s Books.
Four books were also named as 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; and After Tupac D Foster , by Jacqueline Woodson.
Caldecott 2009: The Winners
The overall 2009 Caldecott winner is Beth Krommes for The House in the Night , written by Susan Marie Swanson and published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Three books were also named as Caldecott Honor Books: A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever, written and illustrated by Marla Frazee; How I Learned Geography, written and illustrated by Uri Shulevitz; and A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams , illustrated by Melissa Sweet and written by Jen Bryant.
You can find a list of other American Library Association awards for 2009 here.
