Newbery, Caldecott and other ALA Awards - 1999 Winners

The 1999 winners of the Newbery and Caldecott medals were announced February 1, 1999. For additional details, check the Association for Library Services to Children website, and the ALA Press Release.

Newbery Medal

Louis Sachar, Holes (Frances Foster/Farrar Straus Giroux)

Richard Peck, A Long Way from Chicago (Dial)

For more information, check the official ALSC Newbery Medal page.

Mary Azarian, Snowflake Bentley, written by Jacqueline Briggs Martin (Houghton Mifflin)

Brian Pinkney, Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, written by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Hyperion)

David Shannon, No David! (Blue Sky/Scholastic)

Uri Shulevitz, Snow (Farrar Straus Giroux)

Peter Sís, Tibet Through the Red Box (Frances Foster/Farrar Straus Giroux)

For more information, check the official ALSC Caldecott Medal page.

Angela Johnson, Heaven (Simon & Schuster)

Nikki Grimes, Jazmin's Notebook (Dial)

Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan, Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York's African Burial Ground (H. Holt)

Angela Johnson, The Other Side: Shorter Poems (Orchard)

Michele Wood, i see the rhythm, text by Toyomi Igus (Children's Book Press)

Floyd Cooper, I Have Heard of a Land, written by Joyce Carol Thomas (Joanna Cotler/HarperCollins)

E.B. Lewis, The Bat Boy & His Violin, written by Gavin Curtis (Simon & Schuster)

Brian Pinkney, Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, written by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Hyperion)

Schoschana Rabinovici, Thanks to My Mother, edited by Cindy Kane, translated from the Hebrew by James Skofield (Dial)

Susie Morgenstern, Secret Letters from 0 to 10, edited by Jill Davis, translated from the French by Gill Rosner (Viking)

The Margaret A. Edwards Award for Outstanding Literature For Young Adults honoring an author's lifetime contribution in writing books for teenagers.

Anne McCaffrey

The 2000 May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture.

Hazel Rochman, assistant editor, books for youth, for Booklist

The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video.

The First Christmas, produced by Frank Moynihan and directed by Linsay van Blerk (billy budd films)

Wednesday, Februay 3, 1999
U.S. Book Awards from:
The Children's Literature Web Guide
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/