Award Winning Books 2009

Newbery Medal Winner -
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Dave McKean
Newbery Honor Books -
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt, illustrated by David Small 
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle
Savvy by Ingrid Law
After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
 
Caldecott Medal Winner -
The House in the Night, illustrated by Beth Krommes, written by Susan Marie Swanson 
Caldecott Honor Books -
A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever, written and illustrated by Marla Frazee
How I Learned Geography, written and illustrated by Uri Shulevitz
A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams, illustrated by Melissa Sweet, written by Jen Bryant
 
Coretta Scott King Author Award -
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson
Coretta Scott King Author Honors -
Keeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith
The Blacker the Berry by Joyce Carol Thomas

Becoming Billie Holiday by Carole Boston Weatherford
 
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award -
The Blacker the Berry by Floyd Cooper
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honors -
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson
The Moon Over Star by Jerry Pinkney
Before John Was a Jazz Giant by Sean Qualls

Coretta Scott King John Steptoe Award -
Bird by Shadra Strickland
 
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award -
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honors  -
Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and Rediscovery of the Past by James M. Deem
What to Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy!  by Barbara Kerley and illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham
 
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award  -
Are You Ready to Play Outside? by Mo Willems
Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Books  -
Chicken said, "Cluck!" by Judyann Grant
One Boy by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Stinky: a toon book by Eleanor Davis
Wolfsnail: a backyard predator by Sarah C. Campbell
 
Pura Belpre Author Award  -
The Surrender Tree: poems of Cuba's struggle for freedom by Margarita Engle
Pura Belpre Author Honor Books  -
Just in Case: a trickster tale and Spanish alphabet book by Yuyi Morales 
Reaching Out by Francisco Jimenez
The Storyteller's Candle by Lucia M. Gonzalez
Pura Belpre Illustrator Award  -
Just in Case: a trickster tale and Spanish alphabet book by Yuyi Morales 
Pura Belpre Illustrator Honor Books  -
Papa and Me by Arthur Dorros
The Storyteller's Candle by Lucia M. Gonzalez
What Can You Do with a Rebozo? by Carmen Tafolla
 
Schneider Family Award - Picture Book     
Piano Starts Here: the young Art Tatum by Robert Andrew Parker
Schneider Family Award - Middle School Book   
Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor  
 
Mildred L. Batchelder Award  -
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit by Nahoko Uehashi
Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Books  -
Garmann's Summer by Stain Hole
Tiger Moon by Antonia Michaelis