Stead Takes Newbery, Pinkney Wins Caldecott
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Rebecca Stead's WHEN YOU REACH ME (Wendy Lamb Books), "a complex urban mystery narrated by a sixth-grader," was awarded the ALA's Newbery Medal this morning, as Jerry Pinkney's THE LION & THE MOUSE (Little, Brown Children's), a "near-wordless adaptation of Aesop's classic fable of kindness repaid between an unlikely pair of creatures," won the ALA's Randolph Caldecott Medal for best picture book.

The Newbery Honor books were:

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, by Phillip Hoose
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, by Jacqueline Kelly
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, by Grace Lin
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg, by Rodman Philbrick

The Caldecott Honor titles were:

All the World, by Marla Frazee
Red Sings from Treetops, by Pamela Zagarenski

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