Library Guides: Children's Literature Bibliographies: Awards

Global Awards

Green Earth Book Award (GEBA) The Green Earth Book Award is the nation’s first environmental stewardship book award for children and young adult books. The Nature Generation partners with Salisbury University to bestow this award annually. The award promotes books that inspire children to grow a deeper appreciation, respect, and responsibility for their natural environment.

Hans Christian Andersen Award The Hans Christian Andersen Award, from the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), is presented every two years to a living author and illustrator who has made a remarkable and continuous contribution to children’s literature.
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award is presented annually to a single author or several authors, illustrators, oral storytellers and reading promoters from any nation in the world.

American Library Association (ALA) Youth Media Awards

Alex Awards The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18.
Coretta Scott King Awards 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.
John Newbery Medal The Newbery Medal is awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
Michael L. Printz Award The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature.
Mildred L. Batchelder Award 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.
Pura Belpré Awards 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.
Randolph Caldecott Medal The Randolph Caldecott Medal is awarded annually to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
Schneider Family Book Award 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.
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book 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 the United States in English during the preceding year.
Stonewall Book Award 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.
Theodor 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.
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults 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.

International Children's Book Awards

Young Austrainians Best Book Awards (YABBA) (Australia) 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.
CILIP Carnegie Medal (United Kingdom) The CILIP Carnegie Medal is awarded by children's librarians for an outstanding book written in English for children and young people.
CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal (United Kingdom) The CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal is awarded by children's librarians for an outstanding book in terms of illustration for children and young people.
Branford Boase Award (United Kingdom) The Branford Boase Award is made annually to the most promising book for seven year-olds and upwards by a first time novelist.
Blue Peter Book Award (United Kingdom) 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 Award (United Kingdom) 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.
Red House Children’s Book Award (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
Centre for Literacy in Primary Poetry Award (CLiPPA) The CLiPPA encourages and celebrates outstanding poetry published for children.
Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize (United Kingdom) 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.
CBCA Book of the Year Awards (Australia) 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.
Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator’s Award (Canada) 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.
CLA Book of the Year for Children (Canada) 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.
CLA Young Adult Book Award (Canada) The CLA Young Adult Book Award is presented to an author of a distinguished English language Canadian book of fiction for young adults.