Caldecott and Newbery announced; Clarke on Printz honour list

The The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Scholastic) has won the American Library Association (ALA) 2008 Randolph Caldecott Medal--the first time that a novel has won the top US prize for illustration. The 500-plus-page novel features large sections of graphic novel-style illustrations, which tell the story visually, between...