Research Guides: Youth Literature Award Winners: 1999

1999

Américas Award (CLASP)

CrashBoomLove by Juan Felipe Herrera
Call Number: Y HER
Publication Date: 1999
1999 Américas Award Winner
Magic Windows by Carmen Lomas Garza (Illustrator)
Call Number: Y 800 SPA GAR
Publication Date: 2013
2000 Américas Award Honorable Mention
Cuba by Bernard Wolf (Illustrator)
Call Number: Request from Interlibrary loan
Publication Date: 1999
2000 Américas Award Honorable Mention

Mildred L. Batchelder Award (ALA / ALSC)

Thanks to My Mother by
Schoschana Rabinovici; Mirjam Pressler; James Skofield (Translator)
Call Number: Y 940 R
Publication Date: 1998
1999 Batchelder Award Winner
Secret Letters from 0 To 10 by
Susie Morgenstern; Gill Rosner (Translator)
Call Number: Request from Interlibrary Loan
Publication Date: 1996
1999 Batchelder Honor

Boston Globe-Horn Book Award

Holes by Louis Sachar
Call Number: Y SAC
Publication Date: 1999
1999 Boston Globe-Horn Book Fiction and Poetry Award Winner
The Top of the World by Steve Jenkins
Call Number: Y 796 J
Publication Date: 1999
1999 Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Award Winner
Red-Eyed Tree Frog by Joy Cowley; Nic Bishop (Photographer)
Call Number: Y 597 C
Publication Date: 1999
1999 Boston Globe-Horn Book Picture Book Award Winner
The Trolls by Polly Horvath; P. Horvath
Call Number: Request from Interlibrary loan
Publication Date: 1999
1999 Boston Globe-Horn Book Fiction and Poetry Honor
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Call Number: Y MYE
Publication Date: 1999
1999 Boston Globe-Horn Book Fiction and Poetry Honor
William Shakespeare and the Globe by Aliki (Illustrator)
Call Number: Request from Interlibrary loan
Publication Date: 1999
1999 Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Honor
Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World by Jennifer Armstrong
Call Number: Request from Interlibrary loan
Publication Date: 1998
1999 Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Honor
Dance Dance! by Bill T. Jones; Susan Kuklin
Call Number: Request from Interlibrary loan
Publication Date: 1998
1999 Boston Globe-Horn Book Picture Book Honor
The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear; James Marshall (Illustrator)
Call Number: Request from Interlibrary loan
Publication Date: 1998
1999 Boston Globe-Horn Book Picture Book Honor
Tibet Through the Red Box by Peter Sís (Illustrator)
Call Number: Y 951 S
Publication Date: 1998-11-05
1999 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards Special Citation

Randolph Caldecott Medal (ALA / ALSC)

Snowflake Bentley by
Jacqueline Briggs Martin; Mary Azarian (Illustrator)
Call Number: Y B BEN
Publication Date: 1998
1999 Caldecott Medal Winner
Duke Ellington by
Andrea Davis Pinkney; Brian Pinkney (Illustrator)
Call Number: Y B ELL
Publication Date: 1999
1999 Caldecott Honor
1999 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
No, David! by
David Shannon
Call Number: YE SHA
Publication Date: 1998
1999 Caldecott Honor
Snow by
Uri Shulevitz
Call Number: YE SHU
Publication Date: 1998
1999 Caldecott Honor
1999 Charlotte Zolotow Award Winner
Tibet Through the Red Box by
Peter Sís
Call Number: Y 951 S
Publication Date: 1998
1999 Caldecott Honor

Coretta Scott King Book Award (ALA / EMIERT)

Heaven by
Angela Johnson
Call Number: Y JOH
Publication Date: 1998
1999 Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
I See the Rhythm by
Toyomi Igus; Michele Wood (Illustrator)
Call Number: Y 780 I
Publication Date: 1998
1999 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
The Skin I'm In by
Sharon G. Flake
Call Number: Y FLA
Publication Date: 1999
1999 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent Winner
The Piano Man by
Debbi Chocolate; Eric Velasquez (Illustrator)
Call Number: YE CHO
Publication Date: 1998
1999 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent Winner
Jazmin's Notebook by
Nikki Grimes
Call Number: Y GRI
Publication Date: 1998
1999 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Breaking Ground Breaking Silence by
Joyce Hansen; Gary McGowan (Illustrator)
Call Number: UNI Stacks (F128.39 .H36 1998 )
Publication Date: 1998
1999 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
The Other Side: Shorter Poems by
Angela Johnson
Call Number: Y 821 J
Publication Date: 1998
1999 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
I Have Heard of a Land by
Joyce Carol Thomas; Floyd Cooper (Illustrator)
Call Number: YE THO
Publication Date: 1998
1999 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
The Bat Boy and His Violin by
Gavin Curtis; E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)
Call Number: YE CUR
Publication Date: 1998
1999 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Duke Ellington by
Andrea Davis Pinkney; Brian Pinkney (Illustrator)
Call Number: Y B ELL
Publication Date: 1999
1999 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
1999 Caldecott Honor

Ezra Jack Keats Award (Ezra Jack Keats Foundation + USM)

Elizabeti's Doll
by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen; Christy Hale (Illustrator)
Call Number: Request from Interlibrary Loan
Publication Date: 1998
1999 Ezra Jack Keats Writer Award Winner

Iowa Book Awards (IASL)

Shiloh Season by
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor; Barry Moser (Illustrator)
Call Number: Y NAY
Publication Date: 1996
1999 Iowa Children's Choice Award Winner
Crash by
Jerry Spinelli
Call Number: Y SPI
Publication Date: 1996
1999 Iowa Teen Award Winner

Lambda Literary Award (Lambda Literary)

Telling Tales Out of School by
Kevin Jennings
Call Number: UNI Stacks (LC2575 .T45 1998)
Publication Date: 1998
1999 Lambda Literary Award (Children's/Young Adult) Winner
I Was a Teenage Fairy by
Francesca Lia Block
Call Number: Y BLO
Publication Date: 1998
1999 Lambda Finalist
Lucy Goes to the Country by
Joe Kennedy; John Canemaker (Illustrator)
Call Number: Request from Interlibrary Loan
Publication Date: 1999
1999 Lambda Finalist
Outspoken by
Michael T. Ford
Call Number: Request from Interlibrary Loan
Publication Date: 1998
1999 Lambda Finalist
Queer 13 by
Clifford Chase
Call Number: UNI Stacks (LC2575 .Q84 1998)
Publication Date: 1999
1999 Lambda Finalist

National Book Award for Young People’s Literature (National Book Foundation)

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
by Kimberly Willis Holt
Call Number: Y HOL
Publication Date: 1999
1999 NBA for Young People's Literature Winner
Speak
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Call Number: Y AND
Publication Date: 1999
1999 NBA for Young People's Literature Finalist
The Birchbark House
by Louise Erdrich
Call Number: Y ERD
Publication Date: 1999
1999 NBA for Young People's Literature Finalist
The Trolls
by Polly Horvath
Call Number: Request from Interlibrary Loan
Publication Date: 1999
1999 NBA for Young People's Literature Finalist
Monster
by Walter Dean Myers; Christopher A. Myers (Illustrator)
Call Number: Y MYE
Publication Date: 1999
1999 NBA for Young People's Literature Finalist

New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books

The Collector of Moments by Quint Buchholz
Call Number: Y BUC
Publication Date: 1999
1999 NYT Best Illustrated
Emeline at the Circus by Marjorie Priceman
Call Number: YE PRI
Publication Date: 1999
1999 NYT Best Illustrated
How Are You Peeling?: Foods with Moods by Saxton Freymann; Joost Elffers
Call Number: YE FRE
Publication Date: 1999
1999 NYT Best Illustrated
I, Crocodile by Fred Marcellino
Call Number: YE MAR
Publication Date: 1999
1999 NYT Best Illustrated
Little Bunny on the Move by Peter McCarty
Call Number: Request from Interlibrary Loan
Publication Date: 1999
1999 NYT Best Illustrated
Lottie's New Friend by Petra Mathers
Call Number: Request from Interlibrary Loan
Publication Date: 1999
1999 NYT Best Illustrated
Penguin Dreams by J. Otto Seibold; Vivian Walsh
Call Number: YE SEI
Publication Date: 1999
1999 NYT Best Illustrated
A Straw for Two by Eric Sanvoisin; Martin Matje (Illustrator)
Call Number: Request from Interlibrary Loan
Publication Date: 1999
1999 NYT Best Illustrated
A Symphony of Whales by Steve Schuch; Peter Sylvada (Illustrator)
Call Number: YE SCH
Publication Date: 1999
1999 NYT Best Illustrated
Winter Eyes: by Douglas Florian (Illustrator)
Call Number: Y 821 F
Publication Date: 1999
1999 NYT Best Illustrated

John Newbery Medal (ALA / ALSC)

Holes by
Louis Sachar
Call Number: Y SAC
Publication Date: 1999
1999 Newbery Medal Winner
1998 National Book Award for Young People's Literature Winner
A Long Way from Chicago by
Richard Peck
Call Number: Y PEC
Publication Date: 1998
1999 Newbery Honor

Orbis Pictus Award (NCTE)

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World by
Jennifer Armstrong
Call Number: Request from Interlibrary Loan
Publication Date: 1998
1999 Orbis Pictus Award Winner
Black Whiteness: Admiral Byrd Alone in the Antarctic by
Robert Burleigh; Walter Lyon Krudop (Illustrator)
Call Number: Request from Interlibrary Loan
Publication Date: 1998
1999 Orbis Pictus Honor
Fossil Feud: The Rivalry of the First American Dinosaur Hunters by
Thom Holmes
Call Number: Request from Interlibrary Loan
Publication Date: 1996
1999 Orbis Pictus Honor
Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest by
Steve Jenkins
Call Number: Y 910 J
Publication Date: 1998
1999 Orbis Pictus Honor
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War by
Anita Lobel
Call Number: Y B LOB
Publication Date: 1998
1999 Orbis Pictus Honor

Pura Belpré Award (ALA / ALSC + YALSA + REFORMA)

Sydney Taylor Book Award (ALA / AJL)

The Peddler's Gift by Maxine Rose Schur & Kimberly Bulcken Root (Illustrator)
Call Number: Request from Interlibrary Loan
Publication Date: 1999
1999 The Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Younger Readers
Speed of Light by Sybil Rosen
Call Number: Request from Interlibrary Loan
Publication Date: 1999
1999 The Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Older Readers
Noah and the Great Flood by Mordicai Gerstein
Call Number: Request from Interlibrary Loan
Publication Date: 1999
1999 The Sydney Taylor Book Award Honor Book for Younger Readers
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback
Call Number: YE TAB
Publication Date: 1999
1999 The Sydney Taylor Book Award Honor Book for Younger Readers
Baby's Bris by Susan Wilkowski & Judith Friedman (Illustrator)
Call Number: Request from Interlibrary Loan
Publication Date: 1999
1999 The Sydney Taylor Book Award Honor Book for Younger Readers
Journeys with Elijah: Eight Tales of the Prophet by Barbara Diamond Goldin & Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator)
Call Number: Request from Interlibrary Loan
Publication Date: 1999
1999 The Sydney Taylor Book Award Honor Book for Older Readers
When the Beginning Began: Stories about God, the Creatures and Us by Julius Lester & Emily Lisker (Illustrator)
Call Number: Request from Interlibrary Loan
Publication Date: 1999
1999 The Sydney Taylor Book Award Honor Book for Older Readers
When the Soldiers Were Gone by Vera W. Propp
Call Number: Request from Interlibrary Loan
Publication Date: 1999
1999 The Sydney Taylor Book Award Honor Book for Older Readers

Charlotte Zolotow Award (CCBC @ UW-Madison)

Snow by
Uri Shulevitz
Call Number: YE SHU
Publication Date: 1998
1999 Caldecott Honor
1999 Charlotte Zolotow Award Winner
John Willy and Freddy Mcgee by
Holly Meade
Call Number: YE MEA
Publication Date: 1998
1999 Charlotte Zolotow Honor
Pete's a Pizza by
William Steig
Call Number: YE STE
Publication Date: 1998
1999 Charlotte Zolotow Honor