2004 Award Winning Books
Newbery Medal
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread, by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering, Candlewick Press
Caldecott Medal
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein,
Roaring Brook Press
Orbis
Pictus Award
An American Plague: The
True and Terrifying
Story of the Yellow Fever
Epidemic of 1793
by Jim Murphy, Clarion Books