Amelia Bloomer Book List
Amelia Bloomer Book List Web
Site
The Amelia Bloomer list is a recommended reading list of feminist
books for girls, ranging from beginning readers to teens, that feature strong,
independent, female protagonists and that challenge what it means to be a
woman, regardless of ethnicity or socioeconomic background.
Batchelder Award
Batchelder Award Web
Site
This award, established in Mildred L. Batchelder's honor in 1966,
is a citation 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.
Belpre Medal
Belpre Medal Web Site
The Pura
Belpré Award, established in 1996, 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.
Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth
Booklist
Editors' Choice: Books for Youth Web Site
Committed to providing a
broad selection of outstanding books that mixes popular appeal with literary
excellence, the Books for Youth editorial staff has chosen the titles below as
best-of-the-year fiction, nonfiction, and picture books.
Booklist Editors' Choice: Media
Booklist
Editors' Choice: Media Web Site
Booklist Editors' Choice: Reference Sources
Booklist
Editors' Choice: Reference Sources Web Site
Titles were reviewed in RBB
from February 2006 through January 2007. All the titles are intended for a
general readership at the high-school level and up. For our pick of the crop
for students, see “Twenty Best Bets for Student Researchers” in the September
1 issue.
Booklist's Top of the List
Booklist's
Top of the List Web Site
Every January, Booklist publishes Editors’
Choice: lists of the best books, databases, video/DVDs, and audiobooks of the
past year. From these lists, we further select what we call the Top of the
List: the single best title in eight categories—adult fiction, adult
nonfiction, youth fiction, youth nonfiction, youth picture book, reference
source, video/DVD, and audiobook.
Caldecott Medal
Caldecott Medal Web
Site
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.
Carnegie Medal
Carnegie Medal Web
Site
The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video,
supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, was awarded for the first
time in 1991 to honor outstanding video productions for children released
during the previous year. The annual award is given to the video's producer by
the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of ALA,
through a Carnegie endowment.
Coretta Scott King Book Awards
Coretta Scott King Book Awards Web
Site
Given to African American authors and illustrator 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.
Newbery Medal
Newbery Medal Web Site
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.
Notable Children's Books
Notable Children's Books Web
Site
Each year the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)
identifies the best of the best in children's books, recordings, videos, and
computer software.
Notable Children's Recordings
Notable
Children's Recordings Web Site
Each year the Association for Library
Service to Children (ALSC) identifies the best of the best in children's
books, recordings, videos, and computer software.
Notable Children's Videos
Notable
Children's Videos Web Site
Each year the Association for Library
Service to Children (ALSC) identifies the best of the best in children's
books, recordings, videos, and computer software.
Notable Computer Software for Children
Notable
Computer Software for Children Web Site
Each year the Association for
Library Service to Children (ALSC) identifies the best of the best in
children's books, recordings, videos, and computer software.
Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production
Odyssey
Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production Web Site
This annual award
will be given to the producer of the best audiobook produced for children
and/or young adults, available in English in the United States.
Rainbow Project Book List
Sponsored by Social
Responsibilities Round Table and Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered
Round Table
Rainbow Project Book List Web
Site
The Rainbow Projecte Book List is list of recommended books
dealing with gay, lesbian, bisexual, trangendered and questioning issues and
situations for children up to age 18.
Schneider Family Book Award
Schneider
Family Book Award Web Site
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. Three annual awards
each consisting of $5000 and a framed plaque, will be given annually in each
of the following categories: birth through grade school (age 0-10), middle
school (age 11-13) and teens (age 13-18). (Age groupings are approximations).
The book must emphasize the artistic expression of the disability experience
for children and or adolescent audiences. The book must portray some aspect of
living with a disability or that of a friend or family member, whether the
disability is physical, mental or emotional. Donated by Dr. Katherine
Schneider. Deadline is December 1st.
Sibert Medal
Sibert
Medal Web Site
The Sibert Award honors the most distinguished
informational book published in English in the preceding year for its
significant contribution to children’s literature.
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award
Theodor
Seuss Geisel Award Web Site
The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award, established
in 2004, is given annually (beginning in 2006) to the author(s) and
illustrator(s) of the most distinguished contribution to the body of American
children’s literature known as beginning reader books published in the United
States during the preceding year.
W.Y. Boyd Literary Award
W.Y.
Boyd Literary Award Web Site
An annual award consisting of $5,000 and a
24k gold-framed citation of achievement honoring the best fiction set in a
period when the United States was at war. It recognizes the service of
American veterans and military personnel and encourages the writing and
publishing of outstanding war-related fiction. Donated by William Young Boyd
II. Deadline is December 1st.
Wilder Award
Wilder Award Web Site
The
award, a bronze medal, 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.
