Award winners
Boston Globe - Horn Book Awards
First presented in 1967 and customarily announced in June, the Boston Globe Horn Book Awards are among the most prestigious honors 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
The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
Children's Choice Book Award
Winners of the Children's Choice Book Awards--a component of Children's Book Week--are announced by the Children's Book Council (CBC), in association with the CBC Foundation. Children nationwide cast votes at bookstores, school libraries and at Book Week Online.
Coretta Scott King Award
The award (or awards) is given to an African American author and an African American illustrator for an outstandingly inspirational and educational contribution.
Giverny Award
The Giverny Award is given annually every April to the author and illustrator of the book selected as the best children's science picture book (4-8).
Golden Kite Award
Instituted in 1973, the Golden Kite Awards are the only children’s literary award judged by a jury of peers.
Jane Addams Children's Book Award
Since 1953, the Jane Addams Children's Book Award annually acknowledges books published in the U.S. during the previous year. Books commended by the Award address themes or topics that engage children in thinking about peace, justice, world community, and/or equality of the sexes and all races.
KC3 Book Award
The KC3 Book Award highlights quality books for third graders and for special education students at this reading level. It is sponsored by the Greater Kansas City Association of School Librarians.
Mark Twain Award
The Mark Twain Award is selected by students in grades four through six and presented annually.
Missouri Building Block Picture Book Award
The Missouri Building Block Picture Book Award, administered by the Children's Services Round Table of MLA, is presented annually to the author and illustrator of the picture book voted most popular by preschool children in Missouri's public libraries.
Newbery Medal
The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is 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.
Pura Belpré Award
The Pura Belpré Award honors Pura Belpré, the first Latina librarian from the New York Public Library. This award, established in her honor in 1996, is awarded to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays the Latino culture in a work of literature for children and youth.
Red House Children's Book Award
The Red House Children's Book Award is the only national book award voted for entirely by children.
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award
The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, established by the Association for Library Service to Children in 2001, is awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished informational book published in English during the preceding year.
Schneider Family Book Awards
The Schneider Family Book Awards honor an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for children and adolescent audiences.
Theodore Seuss Geisel Award
The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award is given annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers published in English in the United States during the preceding year.
