BOOKS FOR KIDS & YOUNG ADULTS

The 1998 Award Winners

The Newbery Medal

Out of the Dust
by Karen Hesse
Scholastic Trade

Newbery Honor Books

Ella Enchanted
by Gail Carson Levine
HarperCollins

Lily's Crossing
by Patricia Reilly Giff
Delacorte

Wringer
by Jerry Spinelli
HarperCollins

Caldecott Medal

Rapunzel
by Paul O. Zelinsky
Dutton

Caldecott Honor Books

The Gardener
by Sarah Stewart illustrated by David Small
Farrar

“Christopher Myers, Harlem”
poem by Walter Dean Myers
Scholastic

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
by Simms Taback
Viking

Coretta Scott King Author Award

Forged by Fire
by Sharon M. Draper
Atheneum

Coretta Scott King Author Honor Books

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, A Freed Girl
by Joyce Hansen
Scholastic

Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement
by James Haskins
Hyperion Books for Children

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award

In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers
by Javaka Steptoe
Lee & Low

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books

Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry
by Ashley Bryan
Atheneum

The Hunterman and the Crocodile: A West African Folktale
by Baba Wagué Diakité
Scholastic

“Christopher Myers, Harlem”
poem by Walter Dean Myers
Scholastic

Pura Belpré Author Award

Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida
by Victor Martinez
Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins

Pura Belpré Author Honor Books

Spirits of the High Mesa
by Floyd Martínez
Arte Público Press

Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring Poems
by Francisco X. Alarcón
illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez
Children's Book Press

Pura Belpré Illustrator Award

Snapshots from the Wedding
illustrated by Stephanie García
written by Gary Soto
G.P. Putnam's Sons

Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor Books

The Golden Flower: a Taino Myth from Puerto Rico
illustrated by Enrique O. Sánchez
written by Nina Jaffe
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

In My Family
illustrated by Carmen Lomas Garza
Children's Book Press

Gathering the Sun: An Alphabet in Spanish and English
illustrated by Simon Silva
written by Alma Flor Ada
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books

Mildred L. Batchelder Award for Outstanding Translated Work

The Robber and Me
by Josef Holub
edited by Marc Aronson
translated from the German by Elizabeth D. Crawford
Henry Holt

Batchelder Honor Books

Nero Corleone: A Cat's Story
by Elke Heidenreich
translated from the German by Doris Orgel
Viking

Hostage to War: A True Story
by Tatjana Wassiljewa
translated from the German by Anna Trenter
Scholastic