• The Newbery Medal will be awarded to Cynthia Kadohata for Kira Kira (Atheneum). Three Newbery Honor Books were also named: Al Capone Does My Shirts, by Gennifer Choldenko (Putnam); The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights, by Russell Freedman (Clarion); and Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion).

• The Caldecott Medal will be awarded to Kevin Henkes for his book Kitten’s First Full Moon, written by the illustrator (Greenwillow). Caldecott Honor Books are The Red Book, illustrated and written by Barbara Lehman (Houghton); Coming on Home Soon, illustrated by E. B. Lewis and written by Jacqueline Woodson (Putnam); and Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, illustrated and written by Mo Willems (Hyperion).

• The Coretta Scott King Award for writing will be presented to Toni Morrison, author of Remember: The Journey to School Integration (Houghton). The Coretta Scott King Award for illustration will be presented to Kadir Nelson, illustrator of Ellington Was Not a Street, written by Ntozake Shange (Simon). The King Author Honor Books are The Legend of Buddy Bush, by Shelia P. Moses (McElderry); Who Am I Without Him?: Short Stories About Girls and the Boys in Their Lives, by Sharon G. Flake (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion); and Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem, by Marilyn Nelson (Front Street). Two King Illustrator Honor Books were selected: God Bless the Child, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, written by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr. (Amistad/HarperCollins); and The People Could Fly: The Picture Book, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon, written by Virginia Hamilton (Knopf). The Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award for writing goes to Barbara Hathaway, author of Missy Violet and Me (Houghton). Frank Morrison, illustrator of Jazzy Miz Mozetta (Farrar), written by Brenda C. Roberts, is the recipient of the Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award.

• The American publisher receiving the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for the most outstanding translation of a book originally published in a foreign language is Delacorte Press for Joëlle Stolz's The Shadows of Ghadames. Two Honor Books were also selected: The Crow-Girl: The Children of Crow Cove, written by Bodil Bredsdorff and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux; and Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi, written by David Chotjewitz and published by Richard Jackson Books/Atheneum.

• The Michael L. Printz Award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature goes to Meg Rosoff for How I Live Now (Lamb). Honor books are Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel (Eos/HarperCollins); Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion); and Chanda's Secrets, by Allan Stratton (Annick).

• The Robert F. Sibert Award for most distinguished informational book for children goes to Russell Freedman for The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights (Clarion). Three Sibert Honor Books were also named: Walt Whitman: Words for America, written by Barbara Kerley, illustrated by Brian Selznick (Scholastic); The Tarantula Scientist, written by Sy Montgomery, with photographs by Nic Bishop (Houghton); and Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing, written and illustrated by James Rumford, translated into Cherokee by Anna Sixkiller Huckaby (Houghton).

• The Schneider Family Book Award (scroll down after following link) picture book winner is My Pal Victor, written by Diane Gonzales Bertrand and illustrated by Robert L. Sweetland (Raven Tree Press). Pam Muñoz Ryan is the winner of the middle school award for Becoming Naomi León (Scholastic). The winner of the teen award is Samantha Abeel for My Thirteenth Winter (Orchard).

• The 2006 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture will be delivered by Russell Freedman.

• The winner of the 2005 Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children is Laurence Yep.

• Francesca Lia Block is the 2005 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 A. LaFaye for Worth (Simon).

• The Canadian Library Association's Best Book of the Year for Children Award is Boy O'Boy, written by Brian Doyle (Groundwood/Douglas & McIntyre). The Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award goes to Bill Slavin for Stanley's Party, written by Linda Bailey (Kids Can). Polly Horvath is the winner of the Young Adult Canadian Book Award for The Canning Season (Farrar).

• The Carnegie Medal was awarded to Jennifer Donnelly for A Gathering Light (Bloomsbury).

• The Kate Greenaway Medal was awarded to Shirley Hughes for Ella's Big Chance, written and illustrated by the author (Simon).

• The Gryphon Award was awarded to Monika Bang-Campbell for her easy to read book, Little Rat Rides (Harcourt), illustrated by Molly Bang. Two honor books were also named: Down Girl and Sit: Smarter Than Squirrels by Lucy Nolan, illustrated by Mike Reed (Marshall Cavendish); and You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Fairy Tales to Read Together by Mary Ann Hoberman, illustrated by Michael Emberley (Little Brown).

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