Audio book award.

Honor Books

Curse of the Blue Tattoo by LA Meyer
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
I’m Dirty by Kate & Jim McMullen
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach by Deedy
Nation by Terry Pratchett

Award Book

Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (YES!!!!)

New Talent Award

Shandra Strickland for Bird (HOORAH!)

Illustrator Honor Books

We Are the Ship by Kadir Nelson
Sean Qualls for Before John Was a Jazz Giant
Jerry Pinkney for The Moon Over Star

Illustrator Award Book

Floyd Cooper for The Blacker the Berry

Author Honor Books

Hope Anita Smith for Keeping the Night Watch
Joyce Carol Thomas for The Blacker the Berry
Carol Boston Weatherford for Becoming Billie Holiday

Author Award Book

Kadir Nelson for We Are the Ship

Best Young Children

Piano Starts Here The Young Art Tatum by Robert Andrew Parker

Best Middle School

Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor (YEAH!!!!!!) 

Best Teen

Jerk, California by Jonathan Friesen (Ooo!  Haven’t read this one!)

Forgive my miss-spellings and the items I miss, I’m doing this live from the webcast.

Adult books with teen appeal.  10 books chosen each year.

City of Thieves
Dragons of Babel
Finding Nouf
Good Thief
Just After Sunset
Mudbound
Over and Under
Oxford Project
Sharp Teeth
Three Girls and Their Brother

Each year Publishers Weekly asks children’s booksellers to vote on a wide variety of categories.  They include favorite picture book and favorite novel of the year.  But it gets much more interesting that that! 

How about most innovative book?  The book you wish everyone would shut up about?  Book you were happiest to see back in print?

Click through the see the answers.  I’m amazed that I agree with so many of their responses!

The 2009 Scott O’Dell Award has been announced.  The winner is Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson which is definitely one of the favorites for the Newbery which will be announced next Monday. 

The 2009 Edgar Award Nominees have been announced.  Here are the nominees for children and teens.

 

Juvenile

The Postcard by Tony Abbott

Enigma: A Magical Mystery by Graeme Base

Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff

The Witches of Dredmoore Hollow by Riford McKenzie

Cemetery Street by Brenda Seabrooke

 

Young Adult

Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd

The Big Splash by Jack D. Ferraiolo

Paper Towns by John Green

Getting the Girl by Susan Juby

Torn to Pieces by Margo McDonnell

 

I’m not a big mystery reader, so I haven’t read many of the nominees.  Anyone have a favorite on the list?

The Cooperative Children’s Book Center has announced the winner of the 2009 Charlotte Zolotow Award given for outstanding writing in a picture book.

How to Heal a Broken Wing by Bob Graham

 

Five honor books were also named:

 

How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz,

How Mama Brought the Spring by Fran Manushkin, illustrated by Holly Berry

In a Blue Room by Jim Averbeck, illustrated by Tricia Tusa,

A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams by Jen Bryant, illustrated by Melissa Sweet

Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad by James Rumford

 

The 2009 Zolotow Award committee also cited eight titles as Highly Commended:

The Butter Man by Elizabeth Alalou and Ali Alalou, illustrated by Julie Klear Essakalli

The Chicken of the Family by Mary Amato, illustrated by Delphine Durand

The Cow That Laid an Egg by Andy Cutbill, illustrated by Russell Ayto

Dance with Me by Charles R. Smith, Jr., illustrated by Noah Z. Jones

Don’t Worry Bear by Greg Foley

Growing Up with Tamales = Los tamales de Ana by Gwendolyn Zepeda, illustrated by April Ward, Spanish translation by Gabriela Baeza Ventura

Hen Hears Gossip by Megan McDonald, illustrated by Joung Un Kim

Old Bear by Kevin Henkes

Whoopsie!  I posted about the 2008 award winners earlier today by mistake.  The mistake made even worse by the fact that I got an email telling me the right titles before I even started my post.  Ah well.

So here are the 2009 Award Winners:

Younger Readers

As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Amazing March Toward Freedom by Richard Michelson with illustrations by Raul Colon.

Older Readers

Brooklyn Bridge by Karen Hesse

Teen Readers

A Bottle in the Gaza Sea by Valerie Zenatti