2004 ALSC Award Winners
In order to post the winning information as expeditiously as possible, we are providing a straight list of 2004 ALSC award winners, including book title, author, and publisher. Additional information, including annotations and book cover images for each award-winning title, will be posted to the individual award pages as soon as possible.
Newbery Medal
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread, by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering, Candlewick Press
Newbery Honor Books
Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes, Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy, Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin
Caldecott Medal
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein, Roaring Brook Press
Caldecott Honor Books
Ella Sarah Gets Dressed by Margaret Chodos-Irvine, Harcourt, Inc.
What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? written and illustrated by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page, Houghton Mifflin
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems, Hyperion
Batchelder Award
Walter Lorraine Books/Houghton Mifflin Company publisher of Run, Boy, Run by Uri Orlev; translated from Hebrew by Hillel Halkin.
Batchelder Honor Book
Chronicle Books publisher of The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins by Bea Uusma Schyffert; translated from Swedish by Emi Guner.
Sibert Medal
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy, Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin
Sibert Honor Books
I Face the Wind by Vicki Cobb, illustrated by Julia Gorton, HarperCollins
Belpré Medal (Narrative)
Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez, Alfred A. Knopf
Belpré Honor Books (Narrative)
Cuba 15 by Nancy Osa, Delacorte Press
My Diary from Here to There/Mi diario de aquí hasta allá by Amada Irma Pérez, Children's Book Press/Editorial Libros Para Niños
Belpré Medal (Illustrator)
Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book by Yuyi Morales, Chronicle Books
Belpré Honor Books (Illustrator)
First Day in Grapes by L. King Pérez, illustrated by Robert Casilla, Lee & Low Books
The Pot that Juan Built by Nancy Andrews-Goebel, illustrated by David Diaz, Lee & Low Books
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Yuyi Morales, Harcourt, Inc.
Carnegie Medal
Paul R. Gagne and Melissa Reilly of Weston Woods Studios, producers of Giggle, Giggle, Quack? based on the picture book by Doreen Cronin and illustrated by Betsy Lewin
2005 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecturer
Richard Jackson, Editorial Director, Richard Jackson Books/Atheneum/Simon & Schuster
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