David Almond Honored

David Almond has been awarded a 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Award for his writing.  The awards are given every two years by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) to an author and to an illustrator "whose complete works have made an important and lasting contribution to children's literature." This year there were 28 authors and 27 illustrators nominated from 32 countries, including authors Eoin Colfer from Ireland and Walter Dean Myers from the United States.  The winning illustrator is German author/illustrator Jutta Bauer. Read more about David and Jutta in this short School Library Journal article.