And now, the moment we've all been waiting for...

The winners have been announced!

The winner of the 2004 Caldecott Medal is Mordicai Gerstein, author and illustrator of The Man Who Walked Between The Towers.

The Caldecott Honor winners are Margaret Chodos-Irvine who wrote and illustrated Ella Sarah Gets Dressed, Mo Willems who wrote and illustrated Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (yay!), and Robin Page, the illustrator of What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? (written by her husband Steve Jenkins).

The winner of the 2004 Newbery Medal is Kate DiCamillo for The Tale of Despereaux.

The Newbery Honor winners are Kevin Henkes for Olive's Ocean and Jim Murphy for An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793.

The winner of the 2004 Printz Medal is Angela Johnson for The First Part Last.

The Printz Honor winners are Jennifer Donnelly for A Northern Light, K. L. Going for Fat Kid Rules the World, Helen Frost for Keesha's House, and Carolyn Mackler for The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things.

The winner of the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe New Talent Author Award is Hope Anita Smith.

The winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award is Angela Johnson for The First Part Last.

The Coretta Scott King Author Honor books are Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack, Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson, and The Battle of Jericho by Sharon M. Draper.

The winner of the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award is Elbrite Brown for My Family Plays Music (written by Judy Cox).

The winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award is Ashley Bryan who wrote and illustrated Beautiful Blackbird.

The Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor winners are Colin Bootman for illustrating Almost to Freedom (written by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson) and Kadir Nelson for illustrating Thunder Rose (written by Jerdine Nolen).

The winner of the Pura Belpre Author Award is Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez.

The Pura Belpre Author Honor winners are Nancy Osa for Cuba 15 and Amanda Irma Perez for My Diary from Here to There: mi diario deaqui hasta ala.

The winner of the Pura Belpre Illustrator Award is Yuyi Morales, author and illustrator of Just a Minute.

The Pura Belpre Illustrator Honor winners are Robert Casilla for First Day in Grapes (written by L. King Perez), David Diaz for The Pot That Juan Built (written by Nancy Andrews-Goebel), and Yuyi Morales for Harvesting Hope: the Story of Caesar Chavez (written by Kathleen Krull) (yay!).

The Siebert Medal went to Jim Murphy for An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793.

The Siebert Honor award went to Vicki Cobb for I Face the Wind.

The recipient of the Mildred Batchelder Award is Uri Orlev for Run, Boy, Run (translated to English by Hillel Halkin).

The Margaret Batchelder Honor winner is Bea Uusama Schyffert for The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo VI Astonaut Michael Collins (translated by Emi Buner).

The recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award is Ursula K. LeGuin.

The Andrew Carnegie Award was won by Weston Woods for Giggle, Giggle Quack.

Richard Jackson will deliver the 2005 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture.