On Monday, January 14, 2008, the American Library Association announced this year’s award winners at its Midwinter Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. We have the information on the Medal and Honor books and Award-Winning authors and illustrators for the following awards:

> Alex Awards
> Caldecott Medal
> Coretta Scott King Award
> John Steptoe Award
> Pura Belpré Award
> Margaret A. Edwards Award
> Michael L. Printz Award
> Mildred L. Batchelder Award
> Newbery Award
> Schneider Family Awards
> Robert F. Sibert Award
> Theodor Seuss Geisel Award

> Click Here to download the list in PDF format. (236 kb PDF)

2008 ALA Award Winners

Newbery Medal

Title: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices From a Medieval Village
Author: Laura Amy Schlitz
Illustrator: Robert Byrd
Publisher: Candlewick Press

Caldecott Medal

Title: The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures
Illustrator: Brian Selznick
Publisher: Scholastic Press

Coretta Scott King Award

Author
Title: Elijah of Buxton
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Publisher: Scholastic

Coretta Scott King Award

Illustrator
Title: Let it Shine: Three Favorite Spirituals
Illustrator: Ashley Bryan
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Pura Belpré Award

Author
Title: The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano
Author: Margarita Engle
Publisher: Henry Holt

Pura Belpré Award

Illustrator
Title: Los Gatos Black on Halloween
Illustrator: Yuyi Morales
Publisher: H. Holt

John Steptoe Award

Title: Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It
Author: Sundee T. Frazier
Publisher: Delacorte Press

Theodore Seuss Geisel Award

Title: There is a Bird on Your Head!
Author and Illustrator: Mo Willems
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children

Michael L. Printz Award

Title: The White Darkness: A Novel
Author: Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher: HarperTempest

Mildred L. Batchelder Award

Title: Brave Story
Author: Miyuki Miyabe
Translator: Alexander O. Smith
Publisher: Tokyopop

Alex Awards

Title: American Shaolin
Author: Matthew Polly
Publisher: Gotham Books

Title: Bad Monkeys
Author: Matt Ruff
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Title: Essex County. Vol. 1, Tales From the Farm
Author: Jeff Lemire
Publisher: Top Shelf Productions

Title: Genghis: Birth of an Empire
Author: Conn Iggulden
Publisher: Delacorte Press

Title: The God of Animals: A Novel
Author: Aryn Kyle
Publisher: Scribner

Title: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Author: Ishmael Beah
Publisher: Farrar Straus and Giroux

Title: Mister Pip
Author: Lloyd Jones
Publisher: Dial Press

Title: The Name of the Wind
Author: Patrick Rothfuss
Publisher: DAW Books

Title: The Night Birds
Author: Thomas Maltman
Publisher: Soho Press

Title: The Spellman Files
Author: Lisa Lutz
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Margaret A. Edwards Award

Orson Scott Card

Robert F. Sibert Award

Title: The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
Author: Peter Sis
Publisher: Frances Foster Books

Schneider Family Awards

Picture Book
Title: Kami and the Yaks
Author: Andrea Stenn Strye
Illustrator: Bert Dodson
Publisher: Bay Otter Press

Middle School
Title: Reaching for Sun
Author: Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books

Teen Book
Title: Hurt Go Happy
Author: Ginny Rorby
Publisher: Starscape