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Best Fishes Number One Books Good Reads - Award Winners

The 2008 award winners have been announced! Pick up a book from the list below at your local library branch. Click on the title of the book to go directly into the Library Catalog.

Coretta Scott King Book Award

Recognizing an African American author and illustrator of outstanding books for children and young adults.

Award

Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic)

Honor Books

November Blues by Sharon M. Draper (Atheneum Books for Young Adults)
Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali by Charles R. Smith Jr. (Candlewick Press)

Best Fishes Book Award

2008 Newbery Award Books

Most distinguished contribution in children's literature.

Award

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz, illustrated by Robert Byrd (Candlewick Press)

Newbery Honor Books

Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic)
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion)
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson (Putnum)

2008 Caldecott Award Books

Most distinguished contribution in illustration in books for children, award given to the illustrator.

Award

The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, illustrated by Brian Selznick (Scholastic)

Caldecott Honor Books

Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine, illustrated by Kadir Nelson(Scholastic)
First the Egg by Laura Vaccaro Seeger, illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (Roaring Brook/Neal Porter)
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis, illustrated by Peter Sis (Farrar/Frances Foster)
Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity by Mo Willems, illustrated by Mo Willems (Hyperion)

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