Other American Library Association Awards for Children's Books, 2007
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff
Also see the Caldecott Medal and the Newbery Medal winnners.
2007 Coretta Scott King Awards, honoring black authors and illustrators | |
Author: | Copper Sun, Sharon Draper (Simon & Schuster/Atheneum Books for Young Readers) |
Illustrator: | Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, Kadir Nelson (text by Carole Boston Weatherford) (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children) |
John Steptoe new talent author: | Standing Against the Wind, Traci L. Jones (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
2007 Michael L. Printz Award | |
for excellence in literature for young adults: | American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang (First Second) |
2007 Robert F. Sibert Award | |
for informational book: | Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon, Catherine Thimmesh (Houghton) |
2007 Andrew Carnegie Medal | |
for best children's video: | Knuffle Bunny, Mo Willems, author/illustrator, and Weston Woods Studios |
2007 Mildred L. Batchelder Award | |
for best book originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country: | The Pull of the Ocean, written by Jean-Claude Mourlevat in French and translated by Y. Maudet (Delacorte Press) |
2007 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award | |
for best beginning reader book: | Zelda and Ivy: The Runaways, by Laura McGee Kvasnosky (Candlewick) |
2007 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award | |
for a substantial and lasting contribution to children's literature (biennial): | James Marshall |
2008 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecturer: | |
David Macaulay |