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2007 Coretta Scott King Awards, honoring black authors and
illustrators
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Author:
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Copper Sun, Sharon Draper (Simon & Schuster/Atheneum
Books for Young Readers) |
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Illustrator:
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Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, Kadir
Nelson (text by Carole Boston Weatherford) (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion
Books for Children) |
|
John Steptoe new talent author:
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Standing Against the Wind, Traci L. Jones (Farrar, Straus
and Giroux) |
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2007 Michael L. Printz Award
|
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for excellence in literature for young adults:
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American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang (First Second) |
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2007 Robert F. Sibert Award
|
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for informational book:
|
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon,
Catherine Thimmesh (Houghton) |
|
2007 Andrew Carnegie Medal
|
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for best children's video:
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Knuffle Bunny, Mo Willems, author/illustrator, and Weston
Woods Studios |
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2007 Mildred L. Batchelder Award
|
|
for best book originally published in a foreign language in a
foreign country:
|
The Pull of the Ocean, written by Jean-Claude Mourlevat in
French and translated by Y. Maudet (Delacorte Press) |
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2007 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award
|
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for best beginning reader book:
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Zelda and Ivy: The Runaways, by Laura McGee Kvasnosky
(Candlewick) |
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2007 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award
|
|
for a substantial and lasting contribution to children's
literature (biennial):
|
James Marshall |
|
2008 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecturer:
|
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David Macaulay |
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