And the winners are….The 2012 Newbery, Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Printz, and others….

As you may know, the American Library Association announced the major ALA awards this morning in Dallas, Texas. Here are the winners and honors:

2012 Newbery Award winner: Jack Gantos: Dead End in Norvelt  (Farrar Straus Giroux/Macmillan)

2012 Newbery Honor: Eugene Yelchin: Breaking Stalin’s Nose (Henry Holt/Macmillan)

2012 Newbery Honor: Thanhha Lai: Inside Out & Back Again (HarperCollins)

2012 Caldecott Winner: Chris Raschka: A Ball for Daisy  (Random House)

2012 Caldecott Honor: John Rocco: Blackout  (Hyperion/Disney)

2012 Caldecott Honor: Lane Smith: Grandpa Green (Roaring Brook/Macmillan/Holtzbrinck)

2012 Caldecott Honor: Patrick McDonnell: Me...Jane  (Little Brown)

2012 Coretta Scott King Author Award winner: Kadir Nelson: Heart and Soul  (Balzer & Bray, HarperCollins)

2012 Coretta Scott King Author Honor: Eloise Greenfield: The Great Migration: Journey to the North, illus. by Jan Spivey Gilchrist (HarperCollins)

2012 Coretta Scott King Author Honor: Patricia McKissack: Never Forgotten (Random House)

2012 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner: Shane Evans: Underground (Neal Porter/Roaring Brook/Macmillan/Holtzbrinck)

2012 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor: Kadir Nelson: (Balzar & Bray, HarperCollins)

2012 Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement: Ashley Bryan (Simon & Schuster)

2012 Michael L. Printz Award winner: John Corey Whaley: Where Things Come Back (Atheneum/Simon & Schuster)

2012 Michael L. Printz Honor: Craig Silvey: Jasper Jones (Random House)

2012 Michael L. Printz Honor: Christine Hinwood: The Returning (Dial/Penguin)

2012 Michael L. Printz Honor: Maggie Stiefvater: The Scorpio Races (Scholastic)

2012 Michael L. Printz Honor: Daniel Handler: Why We Broke Up (Little Brown)

2012 Margaret A. Edwards Award: Susan Cooper (Simon & Schuser)

2012 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award winner: Melissa Sweet: Balloons Over Broadway (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Honors:
2012 Robert F. Sibert Honor: Rosalyn Schanzer: Witches (National Geographic)

2012 Robert F. Sibert Honor: Larry Dane Brimner: Black & White (Boyds Mills Press)

2012 Robert F. Sibert Honor: Allen Say: Drawing from Memory (Scholastic)

2012 Robert F. Sibert Honor: Caitlin O’Connell and Donna M. Jackson, photographs by Caitlin O’Connell and Timothy Rodwell: The Elephant Scientist (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

2012 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award winner: Josh Schneider: Tales for Very Picky Eaters (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Honors:

2012 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor: Mo Willems: I Broke My Trunk (Hyperion/Disney)

2012 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor: Jon Kassen: I Want My Hat Back (Candlewick Press)

2012 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor: Paul Meisel: See Me Run (Holiday House)

William C. Morris Debut YA Award winner: John Corey Whaley: Where Things Come Back (Atheneum/Simon & Schuster)

William C. Morris Debut YA Award Finalist: Ruta Sepetys: Between Shades of Gray (Philomel Books/Penguin)

William C. Morris Debut YA Award Finalist: Rae Carson: Girl of Fire and Thorns (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins)

William C. Morris Debut YA Award Finalist: Jenny Hubbard: Paper Covers Rock (Random House)

William C. Morris Debut YA Award Finalist: Guadalupe Garcia McCall: Under the Mesquite (Lee & Low)  

Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Winner: Steve Sheinkin: The Notorious Benedict Arnold (Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan)

Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist: Karen Blumenthal: Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition (Roaring Brook/Macmillan)

Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist: Susan Goldman Rubin: Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein (Charlesbridge)

Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist: Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos: Sugar Changed the World (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist: Sue Macy: Wheels of Change (National Geographic)

Pura Belpré Author Award winner: Guadalupe Garcia McCall: Under the Mesquite (Lee & Low)

Pura Belpré Author Honor: Margarita Engle: Hurricane Dancers (Holt/Macmillan)

Pura Belpré Author Honor: Xavier Garza: Maximilian and the Mystery of the Guardian Angel (Cinco Puntos Press)

Pura Belpré Illustrator winner: Duncan Tonatiuh: Diego Rivera (Abrams)

Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor: Rafael López: The Cazuela that the Farm Maiden Stirred, by Samantha R. Vamos (Charlesbridge)

Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor: Sara Palacios: Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match /Marisol McDonald no combina, by Monica Brown (Lee & Low)

Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobooks: Rotters (Listening Library/Random House)

Odyssey Honor: Okay for Now (Listening Library/Random House)

Odyssey Honor: The Scorpio Races (Scholastic Audiobooks)

Odyssey Honor: Young Freddie (Listening Library/Random House)

Mildred L. Batchelder Award Winner: Soldier Bear, by Bibi Durnon Tak, illus. by Philip Hopman, translated by Laura Watkinson (Eerdmans)

Mildred L. Batchelder Honor: The Lily Pond, by Annika Thor, translated by Linda Schenk (Random House)

Schneider Family Book Awards for Middle School: Joan Bauer: close to famoush (Penguin)

Schneider Family Book Awards for Middle School: Brian Selznick: Wonderstruck (Scholastic)

Schneider Family Book Award for Teens: Wendelin Van Draanen: The Running Dream  (Knopf/Random House)

Stonewall Children's and Young Adult Literature Award winner: Bil Wright: Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy (Simon & Schuster)

Stonewall Children's and Young Adult Literature Honor: Ilike Merey: a + e 4ever (Lethe Press, Inc.)

Stonewall Children's and Young Adult Literature Honor: Paul Yee: Money Boy (Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press)

Stonewall Children's and Young Adult Literature Honor: Lili Wilkinson: Pink (HarperCollins)

Stonewall Children's and Young Adult Literature Honor: Brian Farrey: with or without you (Simon & Schuster)

Congratulations to all the authors, illustrators and publishers!