2009 Newbery Winners Announced

The winners of several youth media awards were announced this morning at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Denver. A press release announcing all of the winners is available in the Youth Media Awards Press Kit at http://www.ala.org/yma.

Of course, on this blog, we're most excited about those honored with the Newbery Award for the most distinguished contribution to children's literature, so here they are:

The 2009 John Newbery Medal was awarded to:

• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Four Newbery honor books were named:

• The Underneath by Kathi Appelt

• The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Eagle

• Savvy by Ingrid Law

• After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson

It was a great year for children's books!