This is the program for

3. The Newbery Caldecott
Awards Banquet 2010
Hilton Washington • Washington, D.C.
June 27, 2010

4. Presiding
Thom Barthelmess, President
Association for Library Service to Children,
a division of the American Library Association
Camila Alire, President
American Library Association

5. Conferring
Rita Auerbach
Chair, 2010 Caldecott Award Selection Committee
Katie O’Dell
Chair, 2010 Caldecott Award Selection Committee

6. The Randolph Caldecott Medal
Jerry Pinkney
“The Lion & the Mouse”
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
The John Newbery Medal
Rebecca Stead
“When You Reach Me”
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of
Random House Children’s Books

7. The 2010 Caldecott
Honor Book Illustrators
Marla Frazee
“All the World”
Beach Lane Books, an imprint of Atheneum Books
for Young Readers/ Simon & Schuster
Pamela Zagarenski
“Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors”
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children/
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

8. The 2009 Newbery Honor
Book Authors
Phillip Hoose
“Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice”
Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar Straus Giroux,
an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group
Jacqueline Kelly
“The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate”
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers,
an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group
Grace Lin
“Where the Mountain Meets the Moon”
Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers/
Hachette Book Group USA
Rodman Philbrick
“The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg”
The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.

9. 2010 Randolph Caldecott Award
Selection Committee
Rita Auerbach, New York, N.Y., Chair
Zahra M. Baird, Cineaste/Librarian, White Plains, N.Y.
Christy B. Estrovitz, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, Calif.
Christi Showman Farrar, Woburn Public Library, Woburn, Mass.
Suzanne Harold, Multnomah County Library, Portland, Ore.
Merri Lindgren, Cooperative Children’s Book Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Gene Nelson, Provo City Library, Provo, Utah
Julie Ranelli, Queen Anne’s County Free Library, Stevensville, Md.
Julie Roach, Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge, Mass.
Brandy Sanchez, Daniel Boone Regional Library, Columbia, Mo.
John P. Scott, Friends School of Baltimore, Baltimore, Md.
Henrietta M. Smith, SLIS-University of South Florida, Tampa, Fla.
Joanna Ward, County of Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, Calif.
Jan S. Watkins, Skokie Public Library, Skokie, Ill.
Lucinda Whitehurst, St. Christopher’s School, Richmond, Va.

10. Honored Guests (continued)
Keith Michael Fiels
Executive Director, American Library Association
Micki Freeny
Co-Chair, ALSC Local Arrangements Committee
Saho Fujii
Senior Designer, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Loida García-Febo
President, REFORMA
Gary Gentel
President, Trade and Reference Division, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Mary Ghikas
Senior Associate Executive Director, American Library Association
Betsy Groban
Senior Vice President and Publisher,
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s Book Group

11. Honored Guests (continued)
Patti Ann Harris
Senior Art Director, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Allyn Johnston
Vice President and Publisher, Beach Lane Books
Melanie Kroupa
Editor-at-Large, Marshall Cavendish
Wendy Lamb
Vice President, Publishing Director, Wendy Lamb
Alvina Ling
Senior Editor, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Caroline Meckler
Associate Editor, Wendy Lamb Books
Kim Olsen-Clark
Director, American Library Association Development Office
Ann Rider
Executive Editor, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children

12. Honored Guests (continued)
Robert L. Sibert
President, Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc.
Andrea Spooner
Senior Executive Editor, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Aimee Strittmatter
Executive Director, Association for Library Service to Children
Megan Tingley
Senior Vice President and Publisher, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Sharon Korbeck Verbeten
Editor, Children and Libraries:
The Journal of the Association for Library Service to Children
Bonnie Verburg
Editorial Director, The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.
Julie Walker
Executive Director, American Association of School Librarians
David Young
Chairman and CEO, Hachette Book Group

13. Honored Guests
ALA Legacy Society Members
John Anderson
Executive Vice President & Publisher, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
Cassandra Barnett
President, American Association of School Librarians
Ellie Berger
President, Trade Publishing, Scholastic Inc.
Christopher Borawski
Co-Chair, ALSC Local Arrangements Committee
Simon Boughton
Publisher, Farrar Straus Giroux,
an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group
Linda Braun
President, Young Adult Library Services Association
Jean Feiwel
Senior Vice President and Director, Macmillan Children’s Publishing
Group; Publisher, Feiwel and Friends and Square Fish

14. 2010 John Newbery Award
Selection Committee
Katie O’Dell, Multnomah County Library, Portland, Ore., Chair
Joel Bangilan, San Antonio Public Library, San Antonio, Texas
Meaghan M. Battle, Berkley, Mich.
Nancy Baumann, Albany County School District, Laramie, Wyo.
Francesca Burgess, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Steven Engelfried, Multnomah County Library, Portland, Ore.
Lori Faust, Warren-Trumbull County Public Library, Warren, Ohio
Diane Foote, Chicago
Elva Garza, Southeast Austin Community Branch Library, Austin, Texas
Maria E. Gentle, Arlington Public Library, Arlington, Va.
Linnea Hendrickson, Bandelier Elementary School, Albuquerque, N.M.
Holly Jin, Skokie Public Library, Skokie, Ill.
Alison O’Reilly, Austin Public Library, Austin, Texas
Maria Salvadore, Washington, D.C.
Deborah Stevenson, Center for Children’s Books, Champaign, Ill.

15. The Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the
American Library Association, gratefully acknowledges the receipt
of contributions from Little, Brown and Company Books for Young
Readers to the Frederic G. Melcher Scholarship Endowment in honor
of Jerry Pinkney for “The Lion & the Mouse” and Scholastic Inc.
to the Frederic G. Melcher Scholarship Endowment in
honor of Rodman Philbrick for “The Mostly True
Adventures of Homer P. Figg.”