Caldecott Awards 2009

An award for the most distinguished American picture book

Caldecott Medal Winner

• The House in the Night (Picture Books/E/Swanson) by Susan Marie Swanson, illustrated by Beth Krommes

Caldecott Honor Books

• Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever (Picture Books/E/Frazee) by Marla Frazee
• How I Learned Geography (Picture Books/E/Shulevitz) by Uri Shulevitz
• A River of Words (Juvenile Nonfiction/J811.52/Williams) by Jen Bryant

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Newbery Awards 2009

An award for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children

Newbery Medal Winner

• The Graveyard Book (Teen Fiction/Gaiman) by Neil Gaiman

Newbery Honor Books

• The Underneath (Juvenile Fiction/J/Appelt) by Kathi Appelt
• The Surrender Tree (Juvenile Nonfiction/J811.54/Eng) by Margarita Engle
• Savvy (Juvenile Fiction/J/Law) by Ingrid Law
• After Tupac & D Foster (TeenFiction/Woodson) by Jacqueline Woodson

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Robert F. Sibert Awards 2009

An award for the most distinguished informational book

Medal Winner

*We Are the Ship (Juvenile Nonfiction/J796.357/Nel) by Kadir Nelson

Honor Books

• Bodies from the Ice (Juvenile Nonfiction/J599.9/Dee) by by James M. Deem
• What To Do About Alice? (Juvenile Biographies/J973.911/Longworth) by Barbara Kerley

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Coretta Scott King Awards 2009

An award for the outstandingly inspirational and educational contribution by an African American author and illustrator

Author Medal Winner

• We Are the Ship (Juvenile Nonfiction/J796.357/Nel) by Kadir Nelson

Illustrator Medal Winner

• The Blacker the Berry (Juvenile Nonfiction/J811.54/Tho) illustrated by Floyd Cooper

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