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2003 ALSC John Newbery Medal (distinguished writing for children)
2003 ALSC John Newbery Award Honor Books
2003 ALSC Randolph Caldecott Award (distinguished illustration for children)
My Friend Rabbit illustrated and written by Eric Rohmann. Roaring Brook Press, 2002 (0-7613-1535-7)
2003 ALSC Randolph Caldecott Award Honor Books
Hondo & Fabian illustrated and written by Peter McCarty. Henry Holt, 2002 (0-8050-6352-8)
2003 ALSC Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award (outstanding book of information)
The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler by James Cross Giblin. Clarion, 2002 (0-395-90371-8)
2003 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award Honor Books
Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929 by Karen Blumenthal. Atheneum, 2002 (0-689-84276-7)
2003 SRRT Coretta Scott King Author Award (outstanding writing by a Black author)
Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes. Dial, 2002. (0-8037-2569-8)
2003 SRRT Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor Books
The Red Rose Box by Brenda Woods. Putnam, 2002 (0-399-23702-X)
2003 SRRT Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Honor Books
Visiting Langston illustrated by Bryan Collier. Written by Willie Perdomo. Henry Holt, 2002 (0-8050-6744-2)
2003 YALSA Michael L. Printz Award (literary excellence in young adult literature)
Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers. U.S. edition: Dutton, 2002 (0-525-46863-3)
2003 YALSA Michael L. Printz Award Honor Books
Hole In My Life by Jack Gantos. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2002 (0-374-39988-3)
2003 ALSC Mildred L. Batchelder Award (for the publisher of the outstanding translated book)
Chicken House / Scholastic Inc. for The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke. Translated from the German by Oliver Latsch. U.S. Edition: Chicken House / Scholastic, 2002 (0-439-40437-1)
2003 ALSC Laura Ingalls Wilder Award (given every other year to an author or artist for lifetime achievement)
Eric Carle
2003 ALSC Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video
"So You Want To Be President," produced by Paul R. Gagne and Melissa Reilly of Weston Woods Studios.
Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi. Hyperion Books for Children, 2002 (0-7868-0828-4)
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer. Atheneum, 2002 (0-689-85222-3)
Hole In My Life by Jack Gantos. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2002 (0-374-39988-3)
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff. Wendy Lamb Books, 2002 (0-385-32655-6)
Hoot by Carl Hiassen. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002 (0-375-82181-3)
A Corner of the Universe by Ann M. Martin. Scholastic Press, 2002 (0-439-38880-5)
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan. HarperCollins, 2002 (0-06-623602-9)
Noah's Ark illustrated and written by Jerry Pinkney. SeaStar Books, 2002 (1-58717-201-1)
The Spider and the Fly illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi. Written by Mary Howitt. Simon & Schuster, 2002 (0-689-85289-4)
Action Jackson by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan. Illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker. Roaring Brook Press, 2002. (0-7613-1682-5)
When Marian Sang by Pam Muņoz Ryan. Illustrated by Brian Selznick. Scholastic Press, 2002. (0-439-26967-9)
Hole In My Life by Jack Gantos. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2002 (0-374-39988-3)
Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman written by Nikki Grimes. Illustrated by E.B. Lewis. Orchard / Scholastic, Inc., 2002 (0-439-35243-6)
Rap a Tap Tap: Here's Bojangles * Think of That! illustrated and written by Leo & Diane Dillon. Blue Sky Press / Scholastic, Inc., 2002 (0-590-47883-4)
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer. Atheneum, 2002 (0-689-85222-3)
My Heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr. Houghton Mifflin, 2002 (0-618-14181-2)