Award Winners Announced

The novel Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins has won the 2005 John Newbery Medal and Chris Raschka won the 2005 Randolph Caldecott Medal for The Hello, Goodbye Window, written by Norton Juster.

The awards were announced this morning at the ALA’s midwinter conference in San Antonio.

For a list of the honor books named for both medals, as well as winners of the Printz award for Young Adult Literature and the first annual Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for beginning reader books, see this Publisher's Weekly news release.