Newbery, Caldecott and other ALA Awards - 1997 Winners

The 1997 winners of the Newbery and Caldecott medals were announced February 17, 1997. For additional details, check the Association for Library Services to Children website, and the ALA Press Release.

Newbery Medal

E.L. Konigsburg, The View from Saturday (Jean Karl/Atheneum)

Newbery Honor Books

Nancy Farmer, A Girl Named Disaster (Richard Jackson/Orchard Books)
Eloise McGraw, Moorchild (Margaret McElderry)
Megan Whalen Turner, The Thief (Greenwillow)
Ruth White, Belle Prater's Boy (Farrar Straus Giroux)

ALSC's Newbery Announcement Page has more details.

Full list of Newbery Winners

Caldecott Medal

David Wisniewski, Golem (Clarion Books)

Caldecott Honor Books

Holly Meade, Hush! A Thai Lullaby, text by Minfong Ho (Melanie Kroupa/Orchard Books)
David Pelletier, The Graphic Alphabet, edited by Neal Porter (Orchard Books)
Dav Pilkey, The Paperboy (Richard Jackson/Orchard Books)
Peter Sis, Starry Messenger (Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus Giroux )

ALSC's Caldecott Announcement Page has more details.

Full list of Caldecott Winners

Coretta Scott King Author Award

Walter Dean Myers, Slam! (Scholastic Press)

Coretta Scott King Author Honor Books

Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack, Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts (Scholastic Press)

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award

Jerry Pinkney, Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman, written by Alan Schroeder (Dial Books for Young Readers)

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books

Gregory Christie, The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children, edited by Davida Adedjouma (Lee & Low)
Reynold Ruffins, Running the Road to ABC, written by Denize Lauture (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Synthia Saint James, Neeny Coming, Neeny Going, written by Karen English (BridgeWater Books)

ALA's Press Release has more details.

Full List of Coretta Scott King Award Winners

Mildred L. Batchelder Award for Outstanding Translated Work

Farrar Straus Giroux, publisher of The Friends by Kazumi Yumoto. Translated from Japanese by Cathy Hirano.

ALA's Press Release has more details.

Full list of Batchelder Winners

Other Awards and Honors

Gary Paulsen is the 1997 winner of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for Outstanding Literature For Young Adults honoring an author's lifetime contribution in writing books for teenagers. (ALA's Press Release)

Susan Hirschman, senior vice president of William Morrow Company and editor-in-chief of Greenwillow Books, will deliver the 1998 May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture. (ALA's Press Release)

Tacy Mangan, of What a Gal Productions wins the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video for Notes Alive! On the Day You Were Born (Distributed by Minnesota Orchestra Visual Entertainment). (ALA's Press Release)

ALA Notable Book Lists

Check the Notable Lists on our Best of 1996 roundup page.

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