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  • Children's Book Awards 2010

The Newbery Medal will be awarded to Rebecca Stead for When You Reach Me (Wendy Lamb). Four Newbery Honor Books also were named: Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose (Kroupa/Farrar Straus Giroux); The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly (Holt); Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin (Little, Brown); and The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick (Blue Sky/Scholastic).

The Caldecott Medal will be awarded to illustrator Jerry Pinkney for The Lion & the Mouse (Little, Brown). Two Caldecott Honor Books also were named: All the World, illustrated by Marla Frazee, written by Liz Garton Scanlon (Beach Lane); and Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors, illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski, written by Joyce Sidman (Houghton).

The Coretta Scott King Book Award for writing goes to Vaunda Micheaux Nelson for Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal (Carolrhoda). The Coretta Scott King Book Award for illustration goes to Charles R. Smith Jr. for My People, written by Langston Hughes (Jump at the Sun/Disney). One King Author Honor Book was selected: Mare's War, by Tanita S. Davis (Knopf ). One King Illustrator Honor Book was selected: The Negro Speaks of Rivers, illustrated by E. B. Lewis, written by Langston Hughes (Jump at the Sun/Disney). The Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award goes to Kekla Magoon, author of The Rock and the River (Aladdin). Walter Dean Myers is the winner of the Coretta Scott King—Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.

The Pura Belpré Award for writing goes to Julia Alvarez for Return to Sender (Knopf), and the Pura Belpré Award for illustration goes to Rafael López, for Book Fiesta!: Celebrate Children's Day/Book Day; Celebremos el día de los niños/El día de los libros, written by Pat Mora (Rayo/HarperCollins). Two Belpré Author Honor Books were named: Diego: Bigger Than Life, written by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand, illustrated by David Diaz (Marshall Cavendish); and Federico García Lorca, written by Georgina Lázaro, illustrated by Enrique S. Moreiro (Lectorum). Three Belpré Illustrator Honor Books were selected: Diego: Bigger Than Life, illustrated by David Diaz, written by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand (Marshall Cavendish); My Abuelita, illustrated by Yuyi Morales, written by Tony Johnston (Harcourt); and Gracias/Thanks, illustrated by John Parra, written by Pat Mora (Lee & Low Books).

The American publisher receiving the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for the most outstanding translation of a book originally published in a foreign language is Delacorte Press for Annika Thor's A Faraway Island, translated from the Swedish by Linda Schenck. Three Batchelder Honor Books also were selected: Big Wolf and Little Wolf, written by Nadine Brun-Cosme, illustrated by Olivier Tallec, translated by Claudia Bedrick and published by Enchanted Lion Books; Eidi, written by Bodil Bredsdorff, translated by Kathryn Mahaffy and published by Farrar Straus Giroux; and Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness, written by Nahoko Uehashi, illustrated by Yuko Shimizu, translated by Cathy Hirano and published by Levine/Scholastic. [End Page 312]

The Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults goes to Libba Bray for Going Bovine (Delacorte). Four Printz Honor Books also were named: Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman (Holt); The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey (Simon & Schuster); Punkzilla by Adam Rapp (Candlewick); and Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973 by John Barnes (Viking).

The Robert F. Sibert Medal for most distinguished informational book for children goes to Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream, written by Tanya Lee Stone, (Candlewick). Three Sibert Honor Books were named: The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors, written by Chris Barton, illustrated by Tony Persiani (Charlesbridge); Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, written and illustrated by Brian Floca( Jackson/Atheneum); and Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, written by Phillip Hoose (Kroupa/Farrar Straus Giroux).

The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for most distinguished beginning reader book goes to Benny and Penny in the Big No-No!, written and...

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