Children’s Book Awards Announced Today
The 2004 winner of the John Newbery medal is Kate DiCamillo, author of “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread.” Mordicai Gerstein, illustrator and author of “The Man Who Walked Between the Towers,” won the Randolph Caldecott Medal for illustration.
Several honor books were named, also, including one by the author of one of my favorite children’s books: Kevin Henckes. (We went to the same university, but not at the same time.)
The American Library Association gives the awards.
January 12th, 2004 at 4:35 pm
Oh, well…you beat me to this post, j :-). I kept waiting for the news to come out, but eventually I gave up (the ALA site, not surprisingly, was slow loading today) and, I could not put off important shelving and searching projects at work to wait for the announcement…I am not a news blogger, I suppose, but that’s ok :-).
January 12th, 2004 at 5:16 pm
I’m amazed that I beat someone to it. Around 4 pm, I suddenly remembered that I hadn’t checked on the awards yet and I had a spare moment, so I took advantage of it. I figured I’d be the last one posting about it.