Award Lists

Boston Globe-Horn Book Award: “excellence in children’s literature for children and young adults.”

Caldecott Medal: “most distinguished American picture book for children”

California Young Reader Medal Award: ” picture books and fiction books selected by vote of California schoolchildren”

Children’s Notable List:  “the best of the best in children’s books, recordings, and digital media.”

Coretta Scott King: African-American author and illustrator

Eureka Nonfiction Award: “to celebrate and honor nonfiction children’s books”

Geisel: Award: beginning reader book

Newbery Medal: “most outstanding contribution to children’s literature”

Pura Belpre : Latino writer and illustrator “whose children’s books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience”

Schneider Family Book Awards: “books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience”

Robert F. Sibert Award: “author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in the United Sates”

Stonewall  :  “exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience”