Other Major Awards: The Coretta Scott King and The Robert F. Sibert Awards
In addition to the announcement of the Caldecott and Newbery award winners, the American Library Association announced the recipients of several other major awards. These included the Coretta Scott King Award and the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, among others.

The Coretta Scott King Award
The Coretta Scott King Award is sponsored by the American Library Association Social Responsibilities Round Table. According to the ALA, its purpose is "To encourage the artistic expression of the African American experience via literature and the graphic arts, including biographical, social, historical, and social history treatments by African American authors and illustrators." You will find cover art and descriptions of each of the 2001 winners on the Coretta Scott King Award web site. Awards are given in two categories: Author and Illustrator, and the following books, authors, and illustrators were recognized:

2001 Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
Miracle's Boys was written by Jacqueline Woodson and published by Putnam.
2001 Coretta Scott King Author Honor Books
Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters was written by Andrea Davis Pinkney and illustrated by Stephen Alcorn. Harcourt/Gulliver is the publisher.

2001 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
Uptown was written and illustrated by Bryan Collier. Henry Holt is the publisher.
2001 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books
Freedom River was written and illustrated by Bryan Collier. Jump at the Sun/Hyperion is the publisher.
Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth was illustrated by R. Gregory Christie, with text by Anne Rockwell. Random House is the publisher.
Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys was illustrated by E.B. Lewis, with text by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard. Simon and Schuster is the publisher.

The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award
According to the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, the new Sibert Award for Informational Books "shall be awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished informational book published during the preceding year."

2001 Sibert Informational Book Award Winner
Sir Walter Raleigh and the Quest for El Dorado was written by Marc Aronson and published by Clarion.
2001 Sibert Informational Book Honor Books
The Longitude Prize was written by Joan Dash and illustrated by Dusan Petricic. Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux is the publisher.
Blizzard!: The Storm That Changed America was written by Jim Murphy and published by Scholastic Press, a division of Scholastic Inc.
My Season with Penguins: an Antarctic Journal was written by Sophie Webb and published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned was written and illustrated by Judd Winick. Henry Holt and Company is the publisher.

Still More Awards
If all of this wasn't enough, the ALA announced even more awards. Kit's Wilderness by David Almond Delacourte received the Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature; Robert Lipsyte received the 2001 Margaret A. Edwards Award in honor of his lifetime contribution in writing for young adults; and Milton Meltzer received the 2001 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award. Scholastic Press/Arthur A. Levine was named the winner of the 2001 Mildred L. Batchelder Award for Samir and Yonatan.

Have you and/or your children read any of the award winning books? What did you think of them? How do you feel about the books that were chosen? Do you have other books you think should have won? Let me know by posting your comments on the About Children's Books Forum.

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