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Books & Reading

Books Awards

American Library Association Awards

  • The John Newbery Medal
    Awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
  • The Randolph Caldecott Medal
    Awarded annually to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
  • The Coretta Scott King Award
    Given to African American authors and illustrators for outstanding inspirational and educational contributions, the Coretta Scott King Book Award titles promote understanding and appreciation of the culture of all peoples and their contribution to the realization of the American dream.
  • The Pura Belpre Medal
    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.
  • The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award
    The 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.
  • The Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal
    The Wilder Award honors an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made, over a period of years, a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.
  • The Robert F. Sibert Medal
    The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal is awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in English during the preceding year.
  • The Mildred L. Batchelder Award
    The Batchelder Award is awarded to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States.

Other Children’s Book Awards

• See also Books & Reading for Adults.