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By staff writer, Updated: Annually in February since 1949

The Christopher Awards -- 2000 to present
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Year	Award	Category	Title	Author
2002	Winner	Ages 10-12	Uncle Daddy	Fletcher, Ralph
2002	Winner	Ages 10-12	A Symphony of Whales	Schuch, Steve
2002	Winner	Ages 6-8	Beatrice's Goat	McBrier, Page
2002	Winner	Ages 8-10	Love That Dog	Creech, Sharon
2002	Winner	Books for Adults	Aging with Grace: What the Nun Study Teaches Us about Leading Longer, Healthier and More Meaningful Lives	Snowdon, David
2002	Winner	Books for Adults	Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty	Bosco, Antoinette
2002	Winner	Books for Adults	Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970	Olson, Lynne
2002	Winner	Books for Adults	An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood	Carter, Jimmy
2002	Winner	Books for Adults	John Adams	McCullough, David
2002	Winner	Books for Adults	Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America	Ehrenreich, Barbara
2002	Winner	Books for Adults	Dear Charlie: Letters to My Children	Kimball, Christopher
2002	Winner	Books for Adults	From the Place of the Dead: The Epic Struggles of Bishop Belo of East Timor	Kohen, Arnold S.
2002	Winner	Books for Adults	Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love	Sobel, Dava
2002	Winner	Books for Adults	No Future Without Forgiveness	Tutu, Desmond Mpilo
2002	Winner	Books for Adults	She Said Yes: The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall	Bernall, Misty
2002	Winner	Feature Film	A Beautiful Mind, DVD/Widescreen/Award (book also avail.)
2002	Winner	Feature Film	Iris, DVD
2002	Winner	Feature Film	Shrek, DVD
2002	Winner	Feature Film	The Widow of Saint-Pierre, DVD
2002	Winner	Preschool	Kiss Good Night	Hest, Amy
2002	Winner	Young Adult	Soldier X	Wulffson, Don L.
2002	Winner	Young Adult	Witness	Hesse, Karen
2001	Winner	Ages 11-12	The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark	Deedy, Carmen Agra
2001	Winner	Ages 12 & up	Hope Was Here	Bauer, Joan
2001	Winner	Ages 6-8	How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?	Yolen, Jane
2001	Winner	Ages 9-10	The Mousery	Pomerantz, Charlotte
2001	Winner	Books for Adults	Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers, Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America	Ward, Andrew
2001	Winner	Books for Adults	Flags of Our Fathers	Bradley, James
2001	Winner	Books for Adults	It's Not about the Bike: My Journey Back to Life	Armstrong, Lance
2001	Winner	Books for Adults	Life is So Good	Dawson, George
2001	Winner	Books for Adults	Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope	Kozol, Jonathan
2001	Winner	Books for Adults	With Love and Prayers: A Headmaster Speaks to the Next Generation	Jarvis, F. Washington
2001	Winner	Feature Films	Billy Elliot	Daldry, Stephen
2001	Winner	Feature Films	Finding Forrester	Van Sant, Gus
2001	Winner	Feature Films	My Dog Skip	Muniz/Lane/Bacon/Wilson/Wachs/
2001	Winner	Feature Films	Remember the Titans	Bruckheimer, Jerry
2001	Winner	Young Adult	The Wanderer	Creech, Sharon
2000	Winner	Ages 12 & up	Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy	Sones, Sonya
2000	Winner	Ages 4-6	I Love You, Blue Kangaroo!	Clark, Emma Chichester
2000	Winner	Ages 7-9	Good Luck, Mrs. K!	Borden, Louise
2000	Winner	Books for Adults	A Clearing in the Distance: Frederich Law Olmstead & America in the Nineteenth Century	Rybczynski, Witold
2000	Winner	Feature Films	Insider	Pacino/Crowe
2000	Winner	Feature Films	October Sky	Gyllenhaal/Cooper
2000	Winner	Feature Films	Straight Story	Farnsworth/Spacek
2000	Winner	Feature Films	Toy Story 2	Toy Story 2
2000	Winner	James Keller Award		Patty Anglin
2000	Winner	Lifetime Achievement		Margaret K. McEnderry
2000	Winner	Young People of All Ages	Grandad's Prayers of the Earth	Wood, Douglas