LibGuides: ENH/EDU291: Children's Literature : Award Winning Children's Books

Award Winners Lists

Caldecott Medal Winners
List of winners with PC Library call numbers. The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. Awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the ALA, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
Caldecott Honor Winners
List of winners with PC Library call numbers. If PC does not have the book, USE PLACE A HOLD to request the book from another MCCCD Library.
Newbery Award Winners
List of winners with PC Library call numbers. The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. Awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the ALA, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature - Search by many different facets including age of reader, genre, and time period.

Grand Canyon Reader Awards - The Grand Canyon Reader Award (formerly the Arizona Young Reader Award) is a reader award program for students in Arizona. Students vote annually on their favorite book in various categories.

Printz Award Winners - The Michael L. Printz Award annually honors the best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit, each year.

Stonewall Book Awards List - The first and most enduring award for GLBT books is the Stonewall Book Awards, sponsored by the American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table.

Schneider Family Book Award - The Schneider Family Book Awards honor an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.

Multicultural Book Awards

Coretta Scott King Awards - The Coretta Scott King Book Awards are given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values.

Pura Belpre Awards - The award is named after Pura Belpré, the first Latina librarian at the New York Public Library. The Pura Belpré Award, established in 1996, is presented annually to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.

Pura Belpre Awards (Current and Past Awards)

Mildred L. Batchelder Award - The Batchelder Award is given to the most outstanding children’s book originally published in a language other than English in a country other than the United States, and subsequently translated into English for publication in the United States.

This Year - Batchelder Award Winners
Batchelder Award Winners - Past