Children's Literature Bibliographies

The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18.

The Coretta Scott King Book Awards are given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values.

The Newbery Medal is awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature.

The Mildred L. Batchelder is an award 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.

The Pura Belpré Award is presented annually 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 Randolph Caldecott Medal is awarded annually to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.

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.

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 the United States in English during the preceding year.

Stonewall Book Award is given annually to English-language works of exceptional merit for children or teens relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender experience.

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.

YALSA's Award for Excellence in Nonfiction honors the best nonfiction book published for young adults (ages 12-18) during a Nov. 1 – Oct. 31 publishing year.

The Young Australians Best Book Awards (YABBA) were established in 1985 by a group of Victorians keen to see children engage in reading Australian books.

The CILIP Carnegie Medal is awarded by children's librarians for an outstanding book written in English for children and young people.

The CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal is awarded by children's librarians for an outstanding book in terms of illustration for children and young people.

The Branford Boase Award is made annually to the most promising book for seven year-olds and upwards by a first time novelist.

The Blue Peter Book Award celebrates children's books published in the last year in two categories: the Best Story and the Best Book with Facts.

The Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize is an annual award recognizing one fiction book written for children or young adults (at least age eight) and published in the United Kingdom.

The Red House Children’s Book is an annual award, chosen by children, for children's books published in the U.K. during the preceding calendar year. Selected

The CLiPPA encourages and celebrates outstanding poetry published for children.

The Young People’s Book Prize is for the best books that communicate science to young people up to the age of fourteen. It is judged by young people from schools and youth groups around the country.

The CBCA Book of the Year Awards promote quality literature for young Australians by supporting and encouraging a wide range of Australian writers and illustrators of children’s books, and by celebrating contributions to Australian children’s literature.

The Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator’s Award for books suitable for children up to the age of twelve written by a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of the country.

The CLA Book of the Year for Children is presented annually to a Canadian author for any kind of creative writing published for children in Canada in the previous year.

The CLA Young Adult Book Award is presented to an author of a distinguished English language Canadian book of fiction for young adults.