Newbery Award 2002

The Newbery Medal honors the year's most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.The recipient must be a citizen or resident of the United States.

		Park, Linda Sue (4/2001). A Single Shard. Clarion Books. Ages 9-12. 160 pages.
		Nelson, Marilyn (2001). Carver: A Life in Poems. Front Street Press. Young Adult. 103 pages.
		Horvath, Polly (4/2001). Everything on a Waffle. Farrar Straus & Giroux. Ages 4-8. 160 pages.

Pura Belpre Award 2002

This award honors Latino authors and illustrators whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in a children's book.

		Soto, Gary. Chato and the Party Animals Illustrated by Susan Guevara. G.P. Putnam's Sons.
		Muñoz Ryan, Pam. Esperanza Rising. Scholastic Press.
		Montes, Marisa. Juan Bobo Goes to Work. Illustrated by Joe Cepeda. HarperCollins.
		Alarcón, Francisco X. Iguanas in the Snow. Illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez. Children's Book Press.
		Jiménez, Francisco. Breaking Through. Jiménez. Houghton Mifflin Company.

The Michael L. Printz Awards 2002

The Michael L. Printz Award recognizes excellence in young adult literature. The award is sponsored by Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association.

		Na, An (2001). A Step from Heaven. Front Street, Ashville, N.C. 156 pages.
		Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art. (2001). Edited by Jan Greenberg. Harry N. Adams, Inc., Publishers.
		Lynch, Chris. Freewill. HarperCollins Publishers.
		Dickinson, Peter. The Ropemaker. Delacorte Press.
		Wolff, Virginia Euwer. True Believer. Atheneum Books for Young Readers.

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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award 2002

This award is for the most distinguished informational book for children published in 2001.

		Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850. Houghthon Mifflin.
		Warren, Andrea. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps. HarperCollins.
		Greenberg, Jan and Sandra Jordan. Vincent van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist. Delacorte Press.
		Curlee, Lynn. Brooklyn Bridge. Illustrated by the author. Simon & Schuster/Atheneum Books.

The Caldecott Medal 2002

Awarded annually to the illustrator of the most distinguished American picture book for children.

		Weisner, David (4/2001). The Three Pigs. Clarion Books.Reading level: Ages 4-8. 40 pages.
		Kerley, Barbara (2001). The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins : An Illuminating History of Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins, Artist and Lecturer . Illustrated by Brian Selznick. Scholastic Inc. Ages 4-8. 48 pages.
		Rappaport, Doreen (9/2001). Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Illustrated by Brian Collier. Jump at the Sun Publishers. Reading level: Ages 4-8. 40 pages.
		Simont, Marc (1/2001). The Stray Dog: From a True Story by Reiko Sassa. Illustrated by Marc Simont. HarperCollins Juvenile Books. Reading level: Ages 4-8. 32 pages.

Coretta Scott King Award 2002

The Coretta Scott King Award was established in 1969 and is given by the American Library Association. It is presented annually to a black author and to a black illustrator for an outstandingly inspirational and
educational contribution published during the previous year.

		Taylor, Mildred (9/2001). The Land. Phyllis Fogelman Books. Ages 9-12. 373 pages.
		Flake, Sharon G. (6/2001). Money Hungry. Hyperion/Jump at the Sun. Ages 9-12. 187 pages.
		Nelson, Marilyn (4/2001). Carver: A Life in Poems. Front Street Press.Reading level: Young Adult. 103 pages.
		Rappaport, Doreen and Bryan Collier. Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Illustrated by Bryan Collier. Hyperion/Jump at the Sun. Ages 4-8. 40 pages.
		McKissack, Pat and Patricia McKissack. Goin' Someplace Special. Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. Atheneum. (An Anne Schwartz Book). Ages 4-8. 40 pages.

Andrew Carnegie Medal 2002

Awarded for excellence in children's video.

Di Loreto, Dante and Anthony Edwards of Aviator Films and Willard Carroll and Tom Wilhite of Hyperion Studio, producers of My Louisiana Sky.

This award, established in her honor in 1966, is a citation awarded to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States. ALSC gives the award to encourage American publishers to seek out superior children's books abroad and to promote communication among the peoples of the world.

		Carus Publishing/Cricket Books, How I Became an American. Originally published in Germany in 2000, as Das Paradies Liegt in Amerika, the book was written by Karin Gündisch and translated by James Skofield.
		Penguin Putnam/Viking. A Book of Coupons originally published as Joker in 1999, was written in French by Susie Morgenstern with illustrations by Serge Bloch, and translated by Gill Rosner for the U.S. edition.