And the Winners Are....2007 Children Book Awards

The following Children Book Awards were announced at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle >>>

Caldecott Medal Honors the illustrator of the most distinguished picture book for children published in the U.S. during the preceding year. Winner: David Wiesner, Flotsam Honors: David McLimans, Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet Kadir Nelson (illustrator), Carole Boston Weatherford (author) Moses

Newbery Medal Honors the year's most distinguished contribution by a U.S. citizen or resident to American literature for children. Winner: Susan Patron, The Higher Power of Lucky Honors: Jennifer L. Holm, Penny from Heaven Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky Cynthia Lord, Rules

Coretta Scott King Award Honors a black author and a black illustrator for an outstanding, inspirational, and educational contribution to literature for children and young people published during the preceding year. Winner (Author): Sharon Draper, Copper Sun Honors (Author): Nikki Grimes, The Road to Paris Winner (Illustrator): Kadir Nelson (illustrator), Carole Boston Weatherford (author) Moses Honors (Illustrator): Christopher Myers (illustrator), Walter Dean Myers (author), Jazz Benny Andrews (illustrator), David Roessel and Arnold Rampersad (editors), Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes Winner (John Steptoe New Talent Author): Traci L. Jones, Standing Against the Wind