ALA Awards
2008 Award Winners
Newbery Medal
Winner: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz, illustrated by Robert Byrd, and published by Candlewick.
Honor Books:
- Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic)
- The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion)
- Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson (Putnam)
Caldecott Medal
Winner: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic)
Honor Books:
- Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Ellen Levine (Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic)
- First the Egg written and illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (Roaring Brook/Neal Porter)
- The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain written and illustrated by Peter Sís (Farrar/Frances Foster)
- Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity written and illustrated Mo Willems (Hyperion)
Batchelder Award (Awarded to the Publisher)
Winner: VIZ Media for Brave Story written by Miyuki Miyabe and translated from the Japanese by Alexander O. Smith
Honor Books:
- Milkweed Editions for The Cat: Or, How I Lost Eternity written by Jutta Richter with illustrations by Rotraut Susanne Berner, and translated from the German by Anna Brailovsky
- Phaidon Press for Nicholas and the Gang written by René Goscinny, illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempé, and translated from the French by Anthea Bell
Pura Belpré Award
Winner for Narrative: The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano written by Margarita Engle, illustrated by Sean Qualls (Holt)
Winner for Illustration: Los Gatos Black on Halloween, illustrated by Yuyi Morales, written by Marisa Montes (Holt)
Honor Books for Narrative:
- Frida: ¡Viva la vida! Long Live Life! written and illustrated Carmen T. Bernier-Grand (Marshall Cavendish)
- Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale, retold by Carmen Agra Deedy, illustrated by Michael Austin (Peachtree)
- Los Gatos Black on Halloween , written by Marisa Montes, illustrated by Yuyi Morales (Holt)
Honor Books for Illustration:
- My Name is Gabito: The Life of Gabriel García Márquez/Me llamo Gabito: la vida de Gabriel García Márquez, illustrated by Raúl Colón, written by Monica Brown (Luna Rising)
- My Colors, My World/Mis colores, mi mundo, written and illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez (Children's Book Press)
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award
Winner: There Is a Bird on Your Head by Mo Willems (Hyperion)
Honor Books:
- First the Egg by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (Roaring Brook/Neal Porter)
- Hello, Bumblebee Bat written by Darrin Lunde, illustrated by Patricia J. Wynne (Charlesbridge)
- Jazz Baby written by Lisa Wheeler, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie (Harcourt)
- Vulture View written by April Pulley Sayre, illustrated by Steve Jenkins (Holt)