The 2006 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award—a $640,000 prize for children's literature handed out by the Sweidsh government—goes to Katherine Paterson, the author of classic novels for young readers like Bridge to Terabithia and Jacob Have I Loved. The jury's citation praises Paterson as "a brilliant psychologist who gets right under the skin of the vulnerable young people she creates, whether in historical or exotic settings, or in the grim reality of the USA today," which will sound about right to any reader who still can't shake scenes from Terabithia out of his head a quarter-century later.