Other American Library Association Awards for Children's Books, 2007
Updated September 9, 2022 |
Infoplease Staff
Also see the Caldecott Medal and the Newbery Medal winnners.
| 2007 Coretta Scott King Awards, honoring black authors and illustrators | |
| Author: | Copper Sun, Sharon Draper (Simon & Schuster/Atheneum Books for Young Readers) |
| Illustrator: | 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: | Standing Against the Wind, Traci L. Jones (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
| 2007 Michael L. Printz Award | |
| for excellence in literature for young adults: | American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang (First Second) |
| 2007 Robert F. Sibert Award | |
| for informational book: | Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon, Catherine Thimmesh (Houghton) |
| 2007 Andrew Carnegie Medal | |
| for best children's video: | Knuffle Bunny, Mo Willems, author/illustrator, and Weston Woods Studios |
| 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) |
| 2007 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award | |
| for best beginning reader book: | Zelda and Ivy: The Runaways, by Laura McGee Kvasnosky (Candlewick) |
| 2007 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award | |
| for a substantial and lasting contribution to children's literature (biennial): | James Marshall |
| 2008 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecturer: | |
| David Macaulay | |
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