2008 ALSC Newbery/Caldecott Banquet

Karen Breen, 2008 Caldecott chair, presented the Caldecott Honor:

• to Laura Vaccaro Seeger for First the Egg, published by Roaring Brook Press/Neal Porter Books
• to Kadir Nelson for Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story of the Underground Railroad, written by Ellen Levine, published by Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic
• to Mo Willems for Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity, published by Hyperion Books for Children/Disney Book Group
• to Peter Sis for The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, published by Frances Foster Books/Farrar Strauss Giroux

Breen presented the 2008 Caldecott Award to Brian Selznick for The Invention of Hugo Cabret, published by Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic.

Nina Lindsay, chair of the 2008 Newbery committee, presented the Newbery Honor:

• to Christopher Paul Curtis for Elijah of Buxton, published by Scholastic Press, a division of Scholastic
• to Jacqueline Woodson for Feathers, published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons
• to Gary D. Schmidt for The Wednesday Wars, published by Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin

Lindsay presented the Newbery Award to Laura Amy Schlitz for Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, illustrated by Robert Byrd, published by Candlewick Press.