Park, Wiesner Win 2002 Newbery,
Caldecott Medals
The writer of a novel set in 12th-century Korea and the illustrator of the familiar folktale of the Three Pigs were named respective winners of the American Library Association’s Newbery and Caldecott medals honoring children’s literature. The announcement came January 21 at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in New Orleans.
Linda Sue Park garnered the John Newbery medal for her story about an orphan named Tree-ear who lives under a bridge with his wise friend Crane-man in A Single Shard. David Wiesner took the Randolph Caldecott prize for his imaginative artistic license that allows the title characters in The Three Pigs to visit other storybooks and nursery rhymes. Both winning entries were published by Houghton Mifflin/Clarion Books.
Mildred D. Taylor, author of The Land, and Jerry Pinkney, illustrator for Goin’ Someplace Special, earned Coretta Scott King Awards recognizing African-American authors and illustrators of outstanding books for children and young adults. Taylor’s book, published by Penguin Putnam/Phyllis Fogelman, tells the story, set in 19th-century Mississippi, of Paul-Edward Logan, the son of a white slave owner and an enslaved African-Indian woman. Pinkney’s realistic watercolors take readers back to Nashville in the 1950s in Goin’ Someplace Special, written by Patricia C. McKissack and published by Atheneum Books.
Other winners were An Na, winner of the Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature for young adults, for A Step from Heaven, published by Front Street; Susan Campbell Bartoletti, winner of the Robert F. Sibert Award for most distinguished informational children’s book, for Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1854–1850, published by Houghton Mifflin; and Paul Zindel, winner of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime contribution in writing for young adults.
A complete list of ALA award-winning books published during 2001 is found on the Public Information Office Web site.
Posted January 28, 2002.
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