| Additional
ALA Awards 2008
Alex | Arbuthnot |
Carnegie | Edwards
| Geisel | Odyssey
| Schneider
Alex
Awards
for the ten best adult books that appeal to a teen audience
• American Shaolin: Flying
Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey
of New China by Matthew Polly (Gotham/Penguin)
• Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff (HarperCollins)
• Essex County Volume I: Tales from the Farm by Jeff
Lemire (Top Shelf)
• Genghis: Birth of an Empire by Conn Iggulden (Delacorte)
• The God of Animals by Aryn Beah (Crichton/Farrar)
• A Long Way Gone: Memiors of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael
Beah (Farrar)
• Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (Dial)
• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (DAW)
• The Night Birds by Thomas Maltman (Soho)
• The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz (Simon)
 
May
Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award
recognizing an author, critic, librarian, historian, or teacher
of children's
literature, who then presents a lecture at a winning host site
Walter Dean Myers
will deliver the 2009 lecture
Andrew
Carnegie Medal
for excellence in children's video
Jump In! Freestyle Edition
produced by Kevin Lafferty, John Davis, Amy Palmer Robertson, and
Danielle Sterling (Disney DVD)
Margaret
A. Edwards Award
for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults
Orson Scott Card
for Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow
(both Tor/Doherty)
Theodor
Seuss Geisel Award
for the outstanding book for beginning readers
Winner
There Is a Bird on Your Head! written and illus. by Mo
Willems (Hyperion)
Honor Books
• Hello, Bumblebee Bat written by Darrin Lunde, illus.
by Patricia J. Wynne (Charlesbridge)
• Vulture View written by April Pulley Sayre, illus.
by Steve Jenkins (Holt)
• First the Egg written and illus. by Laura Vaccaro
Seeger (Porter/Roaring Brook)
• Jazz Baby written by Lisa Wheeler, illus. by R.
Gregory Christie (Harcourt)
Odyssey
Award
for excellence in audiobook production
Winner
Jazz written by Walter Dean Myers, illus. by
Christopher Myers (Live Oak Media)
Honor Books
Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of May
“Jacky” Faber, Ship’s Boy written by L. A.
Meyer (Listen & Live Audio)
Dooby Dooby Moo written by Doreen Cronin, illus. by Betsy
Lewin (Weston Woods/Scholastic)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling (Listening
Library)
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy (HarperChildren’s
Audio)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Listening Library)
Schneider
Family Book Award
for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience
Young Children, ages 0–10
Kami and the Yaks written by Andrea Stenn Stryer, illustrated
by Bert Dodson (Bay Otter Press)
Middle School, ages 11–13
Reaching for Sun by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer (Bloomsbury)
Teen, ages 13–18
Hurt Go Happy by Ginny Rorby (Starscape/Doherty)
2008 ALA awards
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