Newbery, Caldecott and other ALA Awards - 1997 Winners

Newbery Medal Winner

E.L. Konigsburg, The View from Saturday (Jean Karl/Atheneum)

Newbery Honor Books

Nancy Farmer, A Girl Named Disaster (Richard Jackson/Orchard Books)
Eloise McGraw, Moorchild (Margaret McElderry)
Megan Whalen Turner, The Thief (Greenwillow)
Ruth White, Belle Prater's Boy (Farrar Straus Giroux)

All the Newbery Winners

Caldecott Medal Winner

David Wisniewski, Golem (Clarion Books)

Caledcott Honor Books

Holly Meade, Hush! A Thai Lullaby, text by Minfong Ho (Melanie Kroupa/Orchard Books)
David Pelletier, The Graphic Alphabet, edited by Neal Porter (Orchard Books)
Dav Pilkey, The Paperboy (Richard Jackson/Orchard Books)
Peter Sis, Starry Messenger (Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus Giroux )

All the Caldecott winners

Coretta Scott King Author Award

Walter Dean Myers, Slam! (Scholastic Press)

Coretta Scott King Author Honor Books

Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack, Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts (Scholastic Press)
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award
- Jerry Pinkney, Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman, written by Alan Schroeder (Dial Books for Young Readers)
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books
- Gregory Christie, The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children, edited by Davida Adedjouma (Lee & Low)
- Reynold Ruffins, Running the Road to ABC, written by Denize Lauture (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
- Synthia Saint James, Neeny Coming, Neeny Going, written by Karen English (BridgeWater Books)
Other ALA Awards
Mildred L. Batchelder Award for Outstanding Translated Work
Farrar Straus Giroux, publisher of The Friends by Kazumi Yumoto. Translated from Japanese by Cathy Hirano.
Gary Paulsen is the 1997 winner of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for Outstanding Literature For Young Adults honoring an author's lifetime contribution in writing books for teenagers.
Tacy Mangan, of What a Gal Productions wins the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video for Notes Alive! On the Day You Were Born (Distributed by Minnesota Orchestra Visual Entertainment).