- Who Won the Newbery and Caldecott Medals?
To see the Caldecott winners www.ala.org/alsc/caldecott.html
To see the Newbery winners www.ala.org/alsc/newbery.html
Want to see which books that librarians think are the
best? The best storybooks get the Newbery Medal, named
for an eighteenth-century British bookseller. The 2004
Newbery Medal winner is The Tale of Despereaux: Being the
Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of
Thread, the story of a mouse who loves music The
Caldecott Medal is given to the best picture book, and
was named after nineteenth-century English illustrator
Randolph Caldecott. Both awards are given by the
Association for Library Service to Children.
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The 2004 Caldecott Medal winner is The Man Who Walked
Between the Towers, illustrated and written by Mordicai
Gerstein (Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook Press). "This
true story recounts the daring feat of a spirited young
Frenchman who walked a tightrope between the World Trade
Center twin towers in 1974. His joy in dancing on a thin
wire high above Manhattan and the awe of the spectators
in the streets far below is captured in exquisite ink and
oil paintings that perfectly complement the spare,
lyrical text." (source: www.ala.org/alsc)
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