Award Winning Kids Books

Here is just a sampling of the award winning books for kids that are available at the Oxford Public Library.

	»Newbery Medal	»Caldecott Medal
	»Newbery Honor Books	»Caldecott Honor Books

Newbery Medal
The Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

	2011: Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
	2010: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
	2009: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
	2007: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
	2005: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
	2004: The tale of Despereaux: being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread by Kate DiCamillo
	2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
	2002: A single shard by Linda Sue Park
	2001: A year down yonder by Richard Peck
	2000: Bud, Not Buddy by Chrisopher Curtis
	1999: Holes by Louis Sachar

Newbery Honor Books

	2011: Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Rick Allen
	2011: Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus
	2011: One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
	2011: Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm
	2010: Claudette Colvin: Twice towards justice by Philip Hoose
	2010: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
	2010: The mostly true adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick
	2010: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
	2009: The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
	2009: The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle
	2009: Savvy by Ingrid Law
	2009: After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
	2008: Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
	2008: The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
	2008: Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
	Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary Schmidt
	Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
	The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman

Caldecott Medal
Awarded to the artist of the most distinguished American Picture Book for Children published in the United States during the preceding year.

	2011: A Sick Day for Amos McGee illustrated by Erin E. Stead, written by Philip C. Stead
	2010: The Lion & the Mouse illustrated and written by Jerry Pinkney
	2009: The House in the Night, by Susan Marie Swanson, Illustrated by Beth Krommes
	2008: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
	2007: Flotsam by David Wiesner
	2006: The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster illustrations by: Chris Raschka
	2005: Kitten’s First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
	2004: The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein
	2003: My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann
	2002: The Three Pigs by David Wiesner
	2001: So you want to be president? by David Small
	2000: Joseph had a little overcoat by Simms Taback
	1999: Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Martin

Caldecott Honor Books

	2011: Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet Slave illustrated by Bryan Collier
	2011: Interrupting Chicken written and illustrated by David Ezra Stein
	2010: All the World illustrated by Marla Frazee, written by Liz Garton Scanlon
	2010: Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski, written by Joyce Sidman
	2009:A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever by Marla Frazee
	2009:How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz
	2009:A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams by Jen Bryant, illustrated by Melissa Sweet
	2008:Henru's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
	2008:First the Egg by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
	2008:The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis
	Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity by Mo Willems
	The Red Book by Barbara Lehman
	Coming on Home Soon by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by E.B. Lewis
	Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems