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Award winners and finalists, 2010-2019 [3] Year Book Author Illustrator Result Ref. 2010 Our Children Can Soar: Michelle Cook: Winner [11] The Negro Speaks of Rivers: Langston Hughes: E. B. Lewis: Finalist [12] Peeny Butter Fudge: Toni and Slade Morrison: Joe Cepeda: Sugar Plum Ballerinas: Toeshoe Trouble: Whoopi Goldberg: Maryn Roos: Child of ...
The 1970 Newbery Medal winning book Sounder, by William H. Armstrong, was the inaugural winner of the Mark Twain Award in 1972. [2] Peg Kehret has won the Mark Twain Award four times, once in 1999 for Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio, a memoir of her childhood, and three times in six years from 2007 to 2012 for novels. [3]
The Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction is an annual American children's book award that recognizes historical fiction.It was established in 1982 by Scott O'Dell, author of Island of the Blue Dolphins and 25 other children's books, in hopes of increasing young readers' interest in the history that shaped their nation and their world.
The Children's Literature Legacy Award (formerly the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal or Wilder Award) is a prize awarded by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), to writers or illustrators of children's books published in the United States who have, over a period of years, made substantial and lasting contributions to children ...
The award's regulations read: "The Hans Christian Award is presented every two years by IBBY to an author and to an illustrator, living at the time of the nomination, who by the outstanding value of their work are judged to have made a lasting contribution to literature for children and young people.
The Josette Frank Award is an American children's literary award for fiction given annually by the Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College of Education.It "honors a book or books of outstanding literary merit in which children or young people deal in a positive and realistic way with difficulties in their world and grow emotionally and morally".
The Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children, established in 2014 and organized by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), is an annual American literary award for children's fiction books. According to NCTE, the "award recognizes fiction that has the potential to transform children’s lives by inviting compassion ...
The Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award is an annual award presented by the Gelett Burgess Center for Creative Expression. Named for Gelett Burgess, an artist and writer famous for his humorous Goops series (1900-1950), this award recognizes outstanding books that inspire imagination and creativity, and helps support childhood literacy and lifelong reading.