2005 Children’s Book
Awards
Caldecott Award
(Awarded to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book
for children)
Caldecott
Medal Winner
Henkes, Kevin. Kitten’s First Full Moon. Greenwillow/HarperCollins.
Caldecott Honor Books
Lehman, Barbara. The Red Book. Houghton Mifflin.
Woodson, Jacqueline. Coming on Home Soon. Illus. E.B. Lewis. Putnam’s/Penguin.
Willems, Mo. Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale. Hyperion.
Newbery Award
(Awarded to the author of the most distinguished contribution to
American literature for children)
Newbery Medal Winner
Kadohata, Cynthia. Kira-Kira. Atheneum/Simon & Schuster.
Newbery Honor Books
Choldenko, Gennifer. Al Capone Does My Shirts. Putnam’s/Penguin.
Freedman, Russell. The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights. Clarion/Houghton Mifflin.
Schmidt, Gary D. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy. Clarion/Houghton Mifflin.
Comstock Book Award
(Awarded to author/illustrator of the best picture book to
read aloud to children ages 8-12)
Comtsock Medal Winner
Gesslin, Campbell. Elena's Serenade. Illus. Ana Juan. Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Anne Schwartz impint.
Comstock Honor Books
Asch, Frank. Mr. Maxwell's Mouse. Illus. Devin Asch. Kids Can Press.
Moss, Marissa. Mighty Jackie: The Strike-Out Queen. Illus. C.F. Payne. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers/Paula Wiseman imprint.
Wanda Gág Book Award
(Awarded to author/illustrator of the best picture book to read aloud to children ages birth to age 8)
Wanda Gág Medal Winner
Beaumont, Karen. I Like Myself! Illus. David Catrow. Harcourt
Wanda Gág Honor Books
Bania, Michael. Kumak's Fish: A Tall Tale from the Far North. Alaska Northwest Books.
Willems, Mo. Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale. Hyperion Books for Children.
Coretta Scott King
Awards
(Honors African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books for
children and young adults)
Author Award Winner
Morrison, Toni. Remember: The Journey to School Integration. Houghton Mifflin.
Moses, Shelia P. The Legend of Buddy Bush. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster.
Flake, Sharon G. Who Am I Without Him? Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives. Jump at the Sun/Hyperion.
Nelson, Marilyn. Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem. Front Street.
Illustrator Award Winner
Shange, Ntozake. Ellington Was Not a Street. Illus. Kadir Nelson. Simon & Schuster.
Illustrator Honor Books
Holliday, Billie, and Arthur Herzog, Jr. God Bless the Child. Illus. Jerry Pinkney. Amistad/HarperCollins.
Hamilton, Virginia. The People Could Fly: The Picture Book. Illus. Leo and Diane Dillon. Knopf/Random House.
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
Hathaway, Barbara. Missy Violet & Me. Houghton Mifflin.
Illustrator Award Winner
Roberts, Brenda C. Jazzy Miz Mozetta. Illus. Frank Morrison. Farrar Straus Giroux.
Mildred L. Batchelder
Award
(Awarded to an American publisher for an outstanding children’s book
translated into English)
Batchelder Winner
Stolz, Joëlle. Shadows of Ghadames. Trans. from French by Catherine Temerson. Delacorte/Random House.
Batchelder Honor Book
Bredsdorff, Bodil. Crow-Girl: The Children of Crow Cove. Trans. from the Danish by Faith Ingwersen. Farrar Straus Giroux.
Chotjewitz, David. Daniel Half Human: And the Good Nazi. Trans. from German by Doris Orgel. Richard Jackson/Atheneum.
Robert F. Sibert
Informational Book Award
(Awarded to the author of the most distinguished informational book for
children)
Sibert Winner
Freedman, Russell. The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights. Clarion/Houghton Mifflin.
Sibert Honor Books
Kerley, Barbara. Walt Whitman: Words for America. Illus. Brian Selznick. Scholastic.
Montgomery, Sy. The Tarantula Scientist. Photos by Nic Bishop. Houghton Mifflin.
Rumford, James. Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing. Trans. into Cherokee by Anna Sixkiller Huckaby. Houghton Mifflin.
Michael L. Printz
Award
(Awarded for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult
literature)
Printz Award Winner
Rosoff, Meg. How I Live Now. Wendy Lamb Books/Random House.
Printz Honor Books
Oppel, Kenneth. Airborn. EOS/HarperCollins.
Schmidt, Gary D. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy. Clarion/Houghton Mifflin.
Stratton, Allan. Chanda’s Secrets. Annick Press.
(Honors an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences in three age categories)
Ages 0-10
Bertrand, Diane Gonzales. My Pal, Victor. Illus. Robert L. Sweetland. Raven Tree Press.
Ages 11-13
Ryan, Pam Muńoz. Becoming Naomi Leon. Scholastic Press.
Ages 13-18
Abeel, Samantha. My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir. Orchard Books.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Medal
(Honors an author or illustrator whose books, published in the
United States, have made a substantial and lasting contribution to literature
for children)
Laurence Yep
Margaret A. Edwards
Award
(Honors lifetime contribution in writing for young adults)
Francesca Lia Block
May Hill Arbuthnot
Lecture Award
(Each year, an individual of distinction in the field of children's
literature is chosen to write and deliver a lecture that will make a significant
contribution to the world of children's literature)
Russell Freedman
Compiled by Carol H. Sibley, Curriculum Librarian, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, Minnesota, from information available on the American Library Association web pages <http://www.ala.org/> 1/05; updated 5/05.