• The Newbery Medal will be awarded to Richard Peck for A Year Down Yonder (Dial). The Newbery Honor Books are Hope Was Here, by Joan Bauer (Putnam); The Wanderer, by Sharon Creech (Cotler/HarperCollins); Because of Winn-Dixie, by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick); and Joey Pigza Loses Control, by Jack Gantos (Farrar).

• The Caldecott Medal will be awarded to David Small for So You Want to Be President? , written by Judith St. George (Philomel). The Caldecott Honor Books are Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888, illus. by Christopher Bing, written by Ernest Lawrence Thayer (Handprint); Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type, illus. by Betsy Lewin, written by Doreen Cronin (Simon); and Olivia, written and illus. by Ian Falconer (Schwartz/Atheneum).

• The Coretta Scott King Award for writing will be presented to Jacqueline Woodson, author of Miracle's Boys (Putnam), and the award for illustration goes to Bryan Collier for Uptown, text by the illustrator (Holt). The King Honor Book for writing is Let It Shine!: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters, written by Andrea Davis Pinkney and illus. by Stephen Alcorn (Gulliver/Harcourt). King Honor Books for illustration are Freedom River, illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Doreen Rappaport (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion); Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys, illustrated by E. B. Lewis, written by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard (Simon); and Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth, illus. by R. Gregory Christie, written by Anne Rockwell (Knopf).

• The Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children goes to Milton Meltzer.

  The American publisher receiving the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for the most outstanding translation of a book originally published in a foreign language is Scholastic Press/Arthur A. Levine for Daniella Carmi's Samir and Yonatan; the honor award goes to David R. Godine for Ultimate Game, by Christian Lehmann.

• The Michael L. Printz Award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature goes to David Almond for Kit's Wilderness (Delacorte). Honor books are Many Stones, by Carolyn Coman (Front Street); The Body of Christopher Creed, by Carol Plum-Ucci (Harcourt); Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging, by Louise Rennison (Delacorte); and Stuck in Neutral, by Terry Trueman (HarperCollins).

• The Robert F. Sibert Award for most distinguished informational book for children goes to Marc Aronson for Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado (Clarion). Honor books are The Longitude Prize by Joan Dash, illus. by Dusan Petricic (Foster/Farrar); Blizzard! by Jim Murphy (Scholastic); My Season with Penguins: An Antarctic Journal, by Sophie Webb (Houghton); and Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned, written and illus. by Judd Winick (Holt).

• The 2002 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture will be delivered by Philip Pullman.

• Robert Lipsyte is the 2001 winner of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for Outstanding Literature for Young Adults honoring an author's lifetime contribution in writing books for teenagers.

• The Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction goes to Janet Taylor Lisle for The Art of Keeping Cool (Jackson/Atheneum).

• The ALSC Distinguished Service Award goes to Margaret Mary Kimmel.

• The Canadian Library Association's Best Book of the Year for children is Kenneth Oppel's Sunwing (Simon). The Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award goes to Zhong-Yang Huang for The Dragon New Year: A Chinese Legend (Raincoast). The Young Adult Canadian Book Award goes to Katherine Holubitsky for Alone at Ninety Foot (Orca).

• The Carnegie Medal was awarded to Aidan Chambers for Postcards from No Man's Land (Bodley Head).

• The Kate Greenaway Medal was awarded to Helen Oxenbury for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Candlewick).

• The Hans Christian Andersen Award for writing goes to Ana Maria Machado of Brazil. The award for illustration goes to Anthony Browne of the United Kingdom.

• NCTE's Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children goes to Hurry Freedom: African Americans in Gold Rush California, by Jerry Stanley (Crown); Honor Books are America's Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle, by David A. Adler, illus. by Terry Widener (Harcourt); The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin, by James Cross Giblin, illus. by Michael Dooling (Scholastic); Michelangelo, written and illus. by Diane Stanley (HarperCollins); Wild and Swampy: Exploring with Jim Arnosky, written and illus. by Jim Arnosky (HarperCollins); and Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper's Daughter, ed. by Alan Govenar and illus. by Shane Evans (Hyperion).

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