Curtis, Taback, Myers Take
Newbery, Caldecott, Printz Prizes
The author of a story about a boy who runs away from a foster home to search for his father and the illustrator of a book about a resourceful tailor were the respective winners of the American Library Association’s prestigious Newbery and Caldecott awards for 2000, announced at ALA’s Midwinter Meeting in San Antonio.
Christopher Paul Curtis was named the winner of the John Newbery Medal for his book Bud, Not Buddy, published by Delacorte Press. Curtis was also the recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award recognizing excellence by African-American authors.
Simms Taback was honored with the Caldecott Medal for his watercolor, gouache, pencil, ink, and collage illustrations in the book Joseph Had a Little Overcoat, published by Viking.
ALA’s first Michael L. Printz Award went to Walter Dean Myers, the author of Monster, published by HarperCollins, which tells the suspenseful story of a 16-year-old arrested for murder. The new award, named in honor of the late Topeka, Kansas, high-school librarian, is given for excellence in literature for young adults.
Among other awards announced January 17 were the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, given to Brian Pinkney for In the Time of the Drums, (Hyperion), and the Pura Belpré Illustrator Award, which went to Carmen Lomas Garza for Magic Windows: Cut-paper Art and Stories (Children’s Book Press).
The Web site of ALA’s Association for Library Service to Children offers a complete list of children’s authors honored by this year’s award committees.
Posted January 24, 2000.
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