Newbery Medal Winners
2009: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Harper/Collins Publishers)
2008: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by
Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick)
2007: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron (Simon &
Schuster/Richard Jackson)
2006: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow
Books/HarperCollins Publishers)
2005: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum Books for Young
Readers/Simon & Schuster)
2004: Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick)
2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (Hyperion)
2002: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park(Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)
2001: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck (Dial)
2000: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
1999: Holes by Louis Sachar (Frances Foster)
1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Scholastic)
Caldecott Medal Winners
2009: House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson (Houghton Mifflin
Company)
2008: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Scholastic
Press)
2007: Flotsam by David Wiesner (Clarion)
2006: The Hello, Goodbye Window by Chris Raschka (Michael DiCapua
Books/Hyperion)
2005: Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow
Books/HarperCollins Publishers)
2004: The man who walked between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein
(Roaring Brook Press)
2003: My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann (Roaring Brook Press)
2002: The Three Pigs by David Wiesner (Clarion/Houghton Mifflin)
2001: So You Want to Be President? Illustrated by David Small; text
by
Judith St. George (Philomel Books)
2000: Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback (Viking)
1999: Snowflake Bentley, Illustrated by Mary Azarian; text by
Jacqueline Briggs Martin (Houghton)
1998: Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky (Dutton)
California Young Reader Medal
2003 Winners
Primary: Hooway for Wodney Wat by Helen Lester
Intermediate: The Million Dollar Shot by Dan Gutman
Picture books for Older Readers: Weslandia by Paul Fleischman
2004 Winners
Primary: I will never, not ever eat a tomato by Lauren Child
Intermediate: Because of Winn Dixie by Kate Di Camillo
Picture books for Older Readers: The Babe and I by David Adler
2005 Winners
Primary: A Fine, Fine School by Sharon Creech
Intermediate: The School Story by Andrew Clements
Picture Books for Older Readers: And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon
by Janet Stevens
2006 Winners
Primary:Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! by Candace Fleming
Intermediate: Secret School by Andrew Clements
Picture Books for Older Readers: Mr. Lincoln's Way by Patricia Polacco
2007 Winners
Primary: My Lucky Day by Keiko Kasza
Intermediate: Christopher Mouse: The Tale of a Small Traveler by
William Wise
Picture Books for Older Readers: The Cats in Krasinski Square by
Karen Hesse
2008 Winners
Primary: Dex: the Heart of a Hero by Caralyn Buehner
Intermediate: Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
Picture Books for Older Readers: Mr. Maxwell's Mouse by Frank
Asch
2009 Winners
Primary: Stanley's Wild Ride by Linda Bailey (Kids Can Press)
Intermediate: Sheep by Valerie Hobbs (Farrar, Straus, and
Giroux)
Picture Books for Older Readers: Mystery at the Club Sandwich
by Doug Cushman (Clarion Books)
2010 Nominees
Primary:
A Frog Thing by Eric Drachman (Kidwick)
Do Unto Otters: A Book ABout Manners by Laurie Keller (Holt)
My Life as a Chicken by Ellen Kelley (Harcourt)
Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly by Alan Madison (Schwartz & Wade)
Millie Waits for the Mail by Alexander Steffensmeier (Walker)
Intermediate:
No Talking by Andrew Clements (Simon & Schuster)
A Friendship for Today by Patricia McKissack (Scholastic)
A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban (Random House)
Picture Books for Older Readers:
Armando and the Blue Tarp School by Edith Hope Fine and Judith Pinderton
Josephson (Lee & Low)
Owney: The Mail-Pouch Pooch by Mona Kerby (Frances Foster/Farrar, Straus and
Giroux)
Willy & Max: A Holocaust Story by Amy Littlesugar (Philomel/Penguin)
