Alas ... it's not this particular Perkins, but a wonderful writer named Lynne Rae Perkins. Here are all the 2005 award-winning books as chosen by the ALA:
Newbery Medal
Sibert Medal
Newbery Medal
- Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow)
- Whittington by Alan Armstrong, illustrated by SD Schindler (Random House)
- Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Scholastic)
- Princess Academy by Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury)
- Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Hudson Talbott (Putnam)
- Looking for Alaska by John Green (Dutton)
- Black Juice by Margo Lanagan (EOS)
- I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak (Knopf)
- John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth by E. Partridge (Penguin)
- A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson (Houghton Mifflin)
- The Hello, Goodbye Window illustrated by Chris Raschka, written by Norton Juster (Hyperion)
- Rosa illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Nikki Giovanni (Henry Holt)
- Zen Shorts written and illustrated by Jon J Muth (Scholastic)
- Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride written and illustrated by Marjorie Priceman (Simon & Schuster)
- Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems illustrated by Beckie
- Prange, written by Joyce Sidman (Houghton Mifflin)
- An Innocent Soldier written by Josef Holub, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann (Scholastic)
- Limited for Nicholas written by René Goscinny, illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempé, and translated from the French by Anthea Bell (Phaidon)
- When I Was a Soldier written by Valérie Zenatti and translated from the French by Adriana Hunter (Bloomsbury)
Sibert Medal
- Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley written by Sally M. Walker (Lerner)
- Hilter Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Scholastic)
- The Tequila Worm by Viola Canales (Random House)
- Doña Flor: A Tall Tale About a Giant Woman with a Great Big Heart illustrated by Raul Colón and written by Pat Mora (Random House)
- César: ¡Sí, Se Puede! Yes, We Can! by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand, illustrated by David Diaz (Marshall Cavendish)
- Doña Flor: A Tall Tale About a Giant Woman with a Great Big Heart written by Pat Mora and illustrated by Raul Colón (Random House)
- Becoming Naomi León by Pam Muñoz Ryan (Scholastic)
- Arrorró, Mi Niño: Latino Lullabies and Gentle Games selected and illustrated by Lulu Delacre (Lee & Low)
- César: ¡Sí, Se Puede! Yes, We Can! illustrated by David Diaz, written
- by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand (Marshall Cavendish)
- My Name is Celia/Me llamo Celia: The Life of Celia Cruz/La Vida de Celia Cruz illustrated by Rafael López, written by Monica Brown (Rising Moon)
- Henry and Mudge and the Great Grandpas written by Cynthia Rylant and illustrated by Sucie Stevenson (Simon & Schuster)
- Hi! Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold (Scholastic)
- A Splendid Friend, Indeed by Suzanne Bloom (Boyds Mills Press)
- Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa written by Erica Silverman and illustrated by
- Betsy Lewin (Harcourt)
- Amanda Pig and the Really Hot Day written by Jean Van Leeuwen and illustrated by Ann Schweninger (Penguin)