2009 ALA Youth Media Awards
2009 ALA Youth Media Awards Webcast
The 2009 results were unveiled before a crowd of more than 1,500 at the Colorado Convention Center on Jan. 26, and more than 9,100 logged on to the Youth Media Awards Webcast.
Press Releases
Wrap Press Release
American Library Association announces literary award winners
Alex Awards
YALSA announces 2009 Alex Awards
Andrew Carnegie Medal
Paul R. Gagne and Melissa Reilly win 2009 Carnegie Medal for “MARCH ON! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World”
Coretta Scott King Book Award
Kadir Nelson, Floyd Cooper win 2009 Coretta Scott King Awards
John Newbery Medal
Neil Gaiman, Beth Krommes win Newbery, Caldecott Medals
Larua Ingalls Wilder Award
Author and Illustrator Ashley Bryan wins 2009 Wilder Award
Margaret A. Edwards Award
Laurie Halse Anderson wins 2009 Edwards Award for significant and lasting contribution to young adult readers for “Catalyst”; “Fever 1793”; and “Speak”
May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture
Kathleen T. Horning to deliver 2010 Arbuthnot Honor Lecture
Michael L. Printz Award
Melina Marchetta Wins 2009 Printz Award
Mildred L. Batchelder Award
Recorded Books wins 2009 Odyssey Award for “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”
Pura Belpre Awards
Yuyi Morales, Margarita Engle win Pura Belpré Awards
Randolph Caldecott Medal
Neil Gaiman, Beth Krommes win Newbery, Caldecott Medals
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal
Kadir Nelson wins 2009 Sibert Medal
Schneider Family Book Award
2009 Schneider Family Book Awards recipients named
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award
Mo Willems wins Geisel Award for “Are You Ready to Play Outside?”
William C. Morris Award
Elizabeth C. Bunce wins first-ever William C. Morris Award
Before the Newbery, Caldecott, King, and ALA's other prestigious youth media awards were announced at the Midwinter Meeting in Denver, the selection committees crowded into tiny private rooms to call the honorees. AL Focus was invited to capture some of those happy calls and reactions.