Brian Selznick Wins 2008 Caldecott



The long-time illustrator and now author Brian Selznick has won one of the major awards for kids literature, the 2008 Randolph Caldecott Medal, for his The Invention of Hugo Cabret. The win was among the headliners in a massive and slightly terrifying "Sorceror's Apprentice"-type march of award-winners announced Monday morning at the American Library Association's midwinter conference in Philadelphia. That conference ends tomorrow.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret is split between text and "silent" visual storytelling sections, both by Selznick, both of which contribute to the main story. The visual sections not only move the plot forward but support and reinforce the work's overall engagement with silent film.

Sometimes comics maker Mo Willem (You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons) won twice for his children's book work: his book Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity was a Caldecott Honor book, his book There Is a Bird on Your Head! won the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for beginning reader books.

The Viz translation of popular author's Miyuki Miyabe's fantasy Brave Story won the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for the work of Alexander O. Smith. (Viz of course is known to comics audiences for their industry-defining work in translated manga.) One of Phaidon Press' Goscinny/Sempe Le Petit Nicolas works, Nicholas and the Gang received a Batchelder Honors designation for the work of Anthea Bell. The Nicholas translations are part of a massive Jean-Jacques Sempe publishing project that includes cartoon books.

Jeff Lemire has announced that his Essex County Volume One: Tales From The Farm has won a YALSA Alex Award, designed to go to books for adults with specific teen appeal, making it the first comics work to be so honored since Persepolis.
 
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