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  • Children’s Book Awards 2014

The Newbery Medal will be awarded to Kate DiCamillo for Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures (Candlewick). Four Newbery Honor Books also were named: Doll Bones, by Holly Black (McElderry); The Year of Billy Miller, by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow); and One Came Home, by Amy Timberlake (Knopf).

The Caldecott Medal will be awarded to Brian Floca for Locomotive, illustrated and written by Brian Floca (Atheneum). Three Caldecott Honor Books were also named: Journey, written and illustrated by Aaron Becker (Candlewick); Flora and the Flamingo, written and illustrated by Molly Idle (Chronicle); and Mr. Wuffles, written and illustrated by David Wiesner (Clarion).

The Coretta Scott King Book Award for writing goes to Rita Williams-Garcia for P.S. Be Eleven (Amistad/HarperCollins). Three King Author Honor Books were selected: March: Book One, written by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin and illustrated by Nate Powell (Top Shelf); Darius & Twig, written by Walter Dean Myers (Amistad/HarperCollins); and Words with Wings, written by Nikki Grimes (WordSong). The Coretta Scott King Book Award for illustration goes to Bryan Collier for Knock Knock: My Dad’s Dream for Me, written by Daniel Beaty (Little, Brown). One King Illustrator Honor Book was selected: Nelson Mandela, illustrated and written by Kadir Nelson (Tegen/HarperCollins). The Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award goes to Theodore Taylor III for When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop (Roaring Brook). Patricia and Fredrick McKissack are the winners of the Coretta Scott King—Virginia Hamilton Practitioner Award for Lifetime Achievement.

The Pura Belpré Award for illustration goes to Yuyi Morales for Niño Wrestles the World, written and illustrated by Yuyi Morales (Roaring Brook). Three Belpré Illustrator Honor Books was named: Maria Had a Little Llama/María tenía una llamita, illustrated and written by Angela Dominguez (Holt); Tito Puente: Mambo King/Rey del mambo, illustrated by Rafael López, written by Monica Brown (Rayo/HarperCollins); and Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant’s Tale, illustrated and written by Duncan Tonatiuh (Abrams). Pura Belpré Award for writing goes to Meg Medina for Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass (Candlewick). Three Belpré Author Honor Books were named: Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant’s Tale, written and illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh (Abrams); The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba’s Greatest Abolitionist, written by Margarita Engle (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt); and The Living, written by Matt de la Peña (Delacorte).

The American publisher receiving the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for the most outstanding translation of a book originally published in a foreign language is Enchanted Lion Books for Truus Matti’s Mister Orange, translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson. Three Batchelder Honor Books were also selected: The Bathing [End Page 429] Costume, or the Worst Vacation of My Life, written by Charlotte Moundlic and illustrated by Olivier Tallec, translated by Claudia Zoe Bedrick (Enchanted Lion); My Father’s Arms Are a Boat, written by Stein Erik Lunde, illustrated by ∅yvind Torseter, and translated by Kari Dickson (Enchanted Lion); and The War within These Walls, written by Aline Sax, illustrated by Caryl Strzelecki, and translated by Laura Watkinson (Eerdmans).

The Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults goes to Marcus Sedgwick for Midwinterblood (Roaring Brook). Four Printz Honor Books also were named: Eleanor & Park, by Rainbow Rowell (St. Martin’s Griffin); Kingdom of Little Wounds, written by Susann Cokal (Candlewick); Maggot Moon, written by Sally Gardner and illustrated by Julian Crouch (Candlewick); and Navigating Early, written by Clare Vanderpool (Delacorte).

The Robert F. Sibert Medal for most distinguished informational book for children goes to Parrots over Puerto Rico, written by Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore, and illustrated by Susan L. Roth (Lee & Low). Four Sibert Honor Books were named: A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin, written by Jen Bryant and illustrated by Melissa Sweet (Knopf); Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard, written and illustrated by Annette LeBlanc Cate (Candlewick); Locomotive, written and illustrated by Brian Floca (Atheneum); and The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius, written by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan (Roaring Brook).

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