ALSC Media Award Winners Announced

The 2010 Newbery Medal was awarded to "When You Reach Me", a novel of 1970s New York by Rebecca Stead.

Jerry Pinkney's "The Lion and the Mouse" won the 2010 Caldecott Medal.


Newbery Honor Books of 2010 were also announced:

"Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" written by Phillip Hoose, published by Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar Straus Giroux, an imprint of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group (link includes video of Claudette Colvin discussing her story).

"The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" written by Jacqueline Kelly, published by Henry Holt and Company

"Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" written by Grace Lin, published by Little Brown and Company Books for Young Readers

"The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg" written by Rodman Philbrick,

Caldecott Honor Books, 2010:

"All the World" illustrated by Marla Frazee, written by Liz Garton Scanlon, published by Beach Lane Books

"Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors" illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski, written by Joyce Sidman, puslished by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt