Other American Library Association Awards for Children's Books, 2008
Updated September 9, 2022 |
Infoplease Staff
Also see the Caldecott Medal and the Newbery Medal winnners.
| 2008 Coretta Scott King Awards, honoring black authors and illustrators: | |
| (John Steptoe new talent author): | Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It, Sundee T. Frazier (Delacorte Press) |
| 2008 Pura Belpré Awards, honoring Latino writers and illustrators (awarded biennially): | |
| (author): | The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano, Margarita Engle (Holt); |
| (illustrator): | Los Gatos Black on Halloween, illustrated by Yuyi Morales (Marisa Montes) |
| 2008 Michael L. Printz Award, for excellence in literature for young adults: | |
| The White Darkness, Geraldine McCaughrean (HarperTempest/HarperCollins) | |
| 2008 Robert F. Sibert Award, for informational book: | |
| The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, Peter Sís (Farrar/Frances Foster) | |
| 2008 Andrew Carnegie Medal, for best children's video: | |
| Jump In! Freestyle Edition, producer Kevin Laffertym, executive producer John Davis, and co-producers, Amy Palmer Robertson and Danielle Sterling | |
| 2008 Mildred L. Batchelder Award, for best book originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country: | |
| Brave Story, written by Miyuki Miyabe in Japanese and translated by Alexander O. Smith (VIZ Media) | |
| 2008 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award: | |
| Walter Dean Myers | |
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