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Book Awards |
Caldecott Award - Newbery Award - Show Me Readers Award - Show Me Current Nominees - Mark Twain Award
Mark Twain Current Nominees - Coretta Scott King Award
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The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of the nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. it is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. |
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2006 Medal Winner
Title Author
The Hello, Goodbye Window Chris Raschka
Caldecott Honor Books - 2006
Title Illustrator
Rosa Bryan Collier
Zen Shorts Jon J. Muth
Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story
of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride Marjorie Priceman
Song of the Water Boatman &
Other Pond Poems Beckie Prange
The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth century British bookseller John Newbery. it is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
2006 Medal Winner
Title Author
Criss Cross Lynne Rae Perkins
2006 Honor Books
Whittington Alan Armstrong
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in
Hitler's Shadow Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Princess Academy Shannon Hale
Show Way Jacqueline Woodson
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The Show Me Readers Award is to promote literature, literacy, and reading in Missouri elementary schools for grades one through three, and to promote recognition of authors and illustrators of books that are favorites of Missouri children in these grades. Children in grades one through three are eligible to vote for their favorite book if they have read or had read to them a minimum of six books on the current master list 2005 Award Winner Title Author Bad Boys Margie Palatini
2005 Honor Book Winners Diary of a Worm Doreen Cronin Souperchicken Mary Jane Auch
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2006-2007 Show Me Current Nominees
Lu And The Swamp Ghost James Carville
Bed Hogs Kelly DiPucchio
Henry And The Kite Dragon Bruce Hall
Apples To Oregon Deborah Hopkinson
Pickle Patch Bathtub Fran Kennedy
Best Cat in The World Leslea Newman
John Philip Duck Patricia Polacco
Rooster Can't Cock-A-Doodle-Doo Karen Rostoker-Gruber
Why Epossumondas Has No Hair
On His Tail Coleen Salley
Arrowhawk Lola Schaefer
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The Mark Twain Award is to provide the children of Missouri with their very own source to enrich their lives through reading. Missouri students in grades four through eight are eligible to vote for their favorite book if they have read, or have had read to them, at least four of the titles on the current master list.
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2005 Award Winner
Title Author
The City of Ember Jeanne Duprau
2005 Honor Books
The Last Dog on Earth Daniel Ehrenhaft
For Freedom Kimberly Bradley
2006-2007 Mark Twain Current Nominees
Title Author
Funerals and Fly Fishing Mary Bartek
Al Capone Does My Shirts Gennifer Choldenko
Last Holiday Concert Andrew Clements
Report Card Andrew Clements
Escape to West Berlin Maurine Dahlerg
Charlie's Raven Jean Craighead George
Old Willis Place Mary Downing Hahn
Truth About Sparrows Marian Hale
Thunder From The Sea Jean Hiatt Harlow
Abduction! Peg Kehret
Worth A. LaFaye
Hoggee Anna Myers
Thin Wood Walls David Patneaude
Young Man And The Sea Rodman Philbrick
Yankee Girl Mary Ann Rodman
Becoming Naomi Leon Pam Munoz Ryan
Toes Tor Seidler
Cabin On Trouble Creek Jean Van Leeuwen
Wintering Well Lea Wait
Buttermilk Hill Ruth White
The Coretta Scott King Award is presented annually by the Coretta Scott King Task Force of the American Library Association's Ethnic Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table. Recipients are authors and illustrators of African descent whose distinguished books promote an understanding and appreciation of the "American Dream."
2005 Author Award Winner
Title Author
Remember: The Journey to
School Integration Toni Morrison
2005 Honor Books
The Legend of Buddy Bush Shelia P. Moses
Who Am I Without Him? Sharon G. Flake
Fortune's Bones: The Manumission
Re Marilyn Nelson
2005 Illustrator Award Winner
Illustrator
Ellington Was Not a Street Kadir A. Nelson
2005 Honor Books
God Bless the Child Jerry Pinkney
The People Could Fly: The Picture
Book Leo & Diane Dillon
