2004 Children’s Book Awards  

Caldecott Award  
(Awarded to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children)

Caldecott Medal Winner

Caldecott Honor Books

            Chodos-Irvine, Margaret.  Ella Sarah Gets Dressed.  Harcourt.

            Jenkins, Steve and Robin Page.  What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?  Houghton Mifflin.

            Willems, Mo.  Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus.  Hyperion.

Newbery Award
(Awarded to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children)

Newbery Medal Winner

DiCamillo, Kate.  The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread.  Illus. by Timothy Basil Ering.  Candlewick Press.
       

Newbery Honor Book

Henkes, Kevin.  Olive's Ocean.  Greenwillow.

Murphy, Jim.  An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793.  Clarion.

 

Coretta Scott King Awards  
(Honors African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books for children and young adults)

Author Award Winner

Johnson, Angela.  The First Part Last.  Simon & Schuster.

Author Honor Books

Draper, Sharon.  The Battle of Jericho.  Atheneum.

McKissack, Patricia and Fredrick.  Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States.  Scholastic.

Woodson, Jacqueline.  Locomotion.  Putnam's.

Illustrator Award Winner

  Bryan, Ashley.  Beautiful Blackbird.  Atheneum

Illustrator Honor Book

Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux.  Almost to Freedom.  Illus. by Colin Bootman.  Carolrhoda.

Nolan, Jerdine.  Thunder Rose.  Illus. by Kadir Nelson.  Silver Whistle.

John Steptoe New Talent Award
(Occasionally awarded to honor new talent and to offer visibility for excellence in writing or illustration at the beginning of a career as a published book creator)  

Author Award Winner

        Smith, Hope Anita.  The Way a Door Closes.  Illus. by Shane W. Evans.  Henry Holt.

Illustrator Award Winner

Cox, Judy.  My Family Plays Music.  Illus. by  Elbrite Brown.  Holiday House

 

Mildred L. Batchelder Award
(Awarded to an American publisher for an outstanding children’s book translated into English)

Batchelder Winner

Orlev, Uri.  Run, Boy, Run.  Translated from Hebrew by Hillel Halkin.  Walter Lorraine Books.

Batchelder Honor Book

Schyffert, Bea Uusma.  The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins.  Translated from Swedish by Emi Guner.  Chronicle Books.

 

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award
(Awarded to the author of the most distinguished informational book for children)

Sibert Winner

Murphy, Jim.  An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793.  Clarion.

Sibert Honor Books

Cobb, Vicki.  I Face the Wind.  Illus. by Julia Gorton.  HarperCollins.

 

Michael L. Printz Award
(Awarded for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature)

Printz Award Winner

Johnson, Angela.  The First Part Last.  Simon & Schuster.

 Printz Honor Books

        Donnelly, Jennifer.  A Northern Light.  Harcourt.

        Frost, Helen.  Keesha's House.  Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

        Going, K.L.  Fat Kid Rules the World.  Putnam's.

        Mackler, Carolyn.  The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things.  Candlewick.

Pura Belpré Award
(Honors Latino authors and illustrators whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in a children's book)

Author Award Winner

Alvarez, Julia.  Before We Were Free.  Knopf.

Author Honor Books

Osa, Nancy.  Cuba 15.  Delacorte.

Pérez, Amada Irma.  My Diary from Here toThere/Mi diario de aquí hasta allá.  Illus. by Maya Christina Gonzalez.  Children's Book Press

Illustrator Award Winner

Morales, Yuyi.  Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book.  Chronicle Books.

Illustrator Honor Book

Andrews-Goebel, Nancy.  The Pot That Juan Built.  Illus. by David Diaz.  Lee & Low.

Krull, Kathleen.  Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez.  Illus. by Yuyi Morales.  Harcourt.

Pérez, L. King.  First Day in Grapes.  Illus. by Robert Casilla.  Lee & Low.

Margaret A. Edwards Award
(Honors lifetime contribution in writing for young adults)

Ursula K. LeGuin  

 

Richard Jackson.