While you are visiting the library at WLE check out our collection of Caldecott and Newbery winners.
 
The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. Caldecott
 

Recent Caldecott Award Winners

2009:  The House in the Night Illustrator – Beth Krommes, Author – Susan Marie Swanson (Houghton Mifflin)
2008:  The Invention of Hugo Cabret Author/Illustrator – Brian Selznick (Scholastic)
2007:  Flotsam  Author/Illustrator – David Wiesner (Clarion Books)
2006:  The Hello, Goodbye Window  Illustrator – Chris Raschka, Author – Norton Juster (Michael DiCapua Books)
2005:  Kitten’s First Full Moon  Author/Illustrator – Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books)
2004:  The Man Who Walked Between the Towers  Author/Illustrator – Mordicai Gerstein (Roaring Book Press) 
2003:  My Friend Rabbit  Author/Illustrator – Erich Rohman (Roaring Book Press)
2002:  The Three Pigs  Author/Illustrator – David Wiesner (Clarion Books)
2001: So You Want to Be President? Illustrated by David Small; text by Judith St. George (Philomel Books)
2000: Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback (Viking)
1999: Snowflake Bentley, Illustrated by Mary Azarian; text by Jacqueline Briggs Martin (Houghton)
1998: Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky (Dutton)
1997: Golem by David Wisniewski (Clarion)
1996: Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann (Putnam)
1995: Smoky Night illustrated by David Diaz; text: Eve Bunting (Harcourt)
1994: Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say; text: edited by Walter Lorraine (Houghton)
1993: Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully (Putnam)
1992: Tuesday by David Wiesner (Clarion Books)
 

 

Newbury The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

Recent Newbury Award Winners

2009:   The Graveyard Book  Author:  Neil Gaiman  (Harper Collins)
2008:   Good Masters!  Sweet Ladies!  Voices From A Medieval Village  Author:  Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick Press)
2007:   The Higher Power of Lucky  Author:  Susan Patron (Simon & Schuster)
2006:    Criss Cross  Author:  Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow Books)
2005:    Kira-Kira  Author – Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum Books)
2004:    The Tale of Despereaux  Author --   Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick Press)
2003:   Crispin:  The Cross of  Lead  Author:  Avi (Hyperion Books)
2002:  A Single Shard   Author:  Linda Sue Parks (Clarion Books)
2001: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck (Dial)
2000: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
1999: Holes by Louis Sachar (Frances Foster)
1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Scholastic)
1997: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (Jean Karl/Atheneum)
1996: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (Clarion)
1995: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (HarperCollins)
1994: The Giver by Lois Lowry (Houghton)
1993: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant (Jackson/Orchard)
1992: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum)
 


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