Award Winners

Batchelder Award

A citation award given to the publisher of a children’s book that was originally published in a foreign language in a country other than the United States.

Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards

Awards presented in the field of children’s and young adult literature. Winners are selected in three categories: Picture Book, Fiction and Poetry, and Nonfiction.

Caldecott Medal

This award is presented to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.

Christian Book Awards

Awards given for quality and excellence in Christian Literature for children or youth and includes both fiction and nonfiction materials.

Gryphon Award

An award given to a work of fiction or non-fiction for which the primary audience is children in Kindergarten through Grade 4.

Newberry Award and Honor Books

Awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

Odyssey Award

An award is given to the producer of the best audiobook for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States.

Pura Belpre Award

This award is “presented 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” (ALSC).

Theodor Seuss Geisel Award

An award given to the author and illustrator of the most distinguished book for beginning readers.

Sibert Award

An award given to the authors and illustrators of the most distinguished informational book published for children.