The 1998 winners of the Newbery and Caldecott medals were announced January 12, 1998. For additional details, check the Association for Library Services to Children website, and the ALA Press Release.
Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust (Scholastic)
Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted (HarperCollins)
Patricia Reilly Giff, Lily's Crossing (Delacorte)
Jerry Spinelli, Wringer (HarperCollins)
For more information, check the official ALSC Newbery Medal page.
Paul O. Zelinsky, Rapunzel (Dutton)
David Small, The Gardener Text: Sarah Stewart (Farrar)
Christopher Myers, Harlem, poem by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic)
Simms Taback, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (Viking)
For more information, check the official ALSC Caldecott Medal page.
Sharon M. Draper, Forged by Fire (Atheneum)
Joyce Hansen, I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, A Freed Girl (Scholastic Inc.)
James Haskins, Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement (Hyperion Books for Children)
Javaka Steptoe, In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers (Lee & Low)
Ashley Bryan, Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry (Atheneum)
Baba Wagué Diakité, The Hunterman and the Crocodile: A West African Folktale (Scholastic)
Christopher Myers, Harlem, poem by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic)
Victor Martinez, Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida (Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins)
Floyd Martínez, Spirits of the High Mesa (Arte Público Press)
Francisco X. Alarcón, Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring Poems, illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez (Children's Book Press).
Stephanie Garcia, Snapshots from the Wedding, written by Gary Soto (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
Enrique O. Sánchez, The Golden Flower: a Taino Myth from Puerto Rico, written by Nina Jaffe (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Carmen Lomas Garza, In My Family (Children's Book Press)
Simon Silva, Gathering the Sun: An Alphabet in Spanish and English, written by Alma Flor Ada (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books).
Josef Holub, The Robber and Me. Henry Holt. Edited by Marc Aronson and translated from the German by Elizabeth D. Crawford.
Elke Heidenreich, Nero Corleone: A Cat's Story. Viking. Translated from the German by Doris Orgel.
Tatjana Wassiljewa, Hostage to War: A True Story. Scholastic. Translated from the German by Anna Trenter.
Russell Freedman
The Margaret A. Edwards Award for Outstanding Literature For Young Adults honoring an author's lifetime contribution in writing books for teenagers.
Madeleine L'Engle
The 1999 May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture.
Lillian N. Gerhardt, editor-in-chief of School Library Journal (Read the Press Release)
The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video.
Willa: An American Snow White, produced and directed by Tom Davenport and distributed by Davenport Films
Check the Notable Lists on our Best Books of 1997 roundup page.
Copyright © 1998 David K. Brown.
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