2010 Caldecott and Newbery Awards Announced

Wed, 01/20/2010 - 2:50pm by kidlit

The 2010 Caldecott and Newbery awards were announced in Boston on Monday.
The Caldecott medal was awarded to Jerry Pinkney for his rendition of The Lion and the Mouse.
Caldecott Honors went to Marla Frazee for illustrations of All the World by Liz Garton and to Pamela Zagarenski for her illustrations of Red Sings from Treetops by Joyce Sidman.
The Newbery medal was awarded to Rebecca Stead for her novel When You Reach Me.
Newbery honor books are Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly, The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick and Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin.