ALA Awards Announced

The ALA Awards were announced this morning at the ALA Midwinter Conference in Boston. Three big awards... three Dewey Diva picks! Can we pick them or what? :)

The winners are:

• 2010 Newbery Medal: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (Random House)
• 2010 Caldecott Medal: The Lion and Mouse by Jerry Pinkney (Little Brown)
• 2010 Michael L. Printz Award: Going Bovine (Delacorte)

• The Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime contribution in writing for young adults was given to Jim Murphy.
• The Robert F. Sibert Award for the most distinguished informational book went to Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone (Candlewick)
• The new YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award went to Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman (Henry Holt).
• The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for books for emerging readers was awarded to Benny and Penny in the Big No-No! by Geoffrey Hayes.

For the full list of honor books follow the link to the ALA website.