The winners for the 2007 Newbery and Caldecott have been announced!
Every year a special award is given to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature (fiction or non-fiction) for children.
This award, called Newbery Medal, was named for the eighteenth-century bookseller John Newbery, and is awarded by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the
American Library Association.
American Library Association.
Another award, called the Caldecott Medal, is awarded each year to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book (fiction or non-fiction) for children. The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of the nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott, and is chosen by the Association for Library Service to Children.
And the winners are:
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz (Newbery)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Caldecott)
Here are the Newbery Honor Books:
- Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
- The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
- Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
Caldecott Honor Books:
- First the Egg
written and illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
- The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
written and illustrated by Peter Sis
- Henry’s Freedom Box
illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Ellen Levine
- Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity
written and illustrated by Mo Willems
