Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Kids Booklist

2009 Awards

Check out this year's award winners and runners up in children's books!

Krommes, Beth (illustrator), Swanson, Susan Marie (author) – The House in the Night

Frazee, Marla – A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever

Shulevitz, Uri – How I Learned Geography

Sweet, Melissa (illustrator), Bryant, Jennifer (author) – A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams

Nelson, Kadir – We Are the Ship: The Story of the Negro League Baseball

Cooper, Floyd (illustrator) and Thomas, Joyce Carol (author) – The Blacker the Berry: Poems

Smith, Hope Anita – Keeping the Night Watch

Weatherford, Carole Boston – Becoming Billie Holiday

Pinkney, Jerry (illustrator) and Aston, Dianna Hutts (author) – The Moon over Star

Qualls, Sean (illustrator) and Weatherford, Carole Boston (author) – Before John Was a Jazz Giant: a Song of John Coltrane

Strickland, Shadra (illustrator) and Elliott, Zetta (author) – Bird

Gaiman, Neil – The Graveyard Book

Appelt, Kathi – The Underneath

Engle, Margarita – The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom

Law, Ingrid – Savvy

Woodson, Jacqueline – After Tupac & D Foster