More Children's Book Awards

While the ALA awards for children's books and media (among them the Newbery and Caldcott awards) may be the most well-known, there are many other worthy awards for children's books as well. All of these are excellent sources for those looking for great reads for the children in their lives.

For instance, the Cybils. Announced on Valentine's Day, these are awards given by the children's literature blogging community in a wide range of categories.

Then there is this year's British Red House Children's Book Award that has just gone to Patrick Ness's A Monster Calls.  This award is given by British children --- that is they nominate titles from which a shortlist is created and then vote for the winner.

This year's Newbery winner, Jack Gantos's Dead End in Norvelt, also snagged another children's book award --- the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction.

Another unique award is the Charlotte Zolotow Award is given to "annually to the author of the best picture book text published in the United States in the preceding year." This year it went to Patrick McDonnell's Me... Jane.

Still to come are:

• The Irma Black Award, is another award given by children, American in this case. The process is underway right now -- check out this blog for more information.


•  The Children's Choice Awards, jointly overseen by the Children's Book Council and the International Reading Association, are also determined by child votes in the U.S.


• The Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards are selected by a committee of knowledgeable adults.

A version of this post is also at educating alice>.

 

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Comments

[The Tea Box Blog]

04:23 AM on 02/23/2012

Hi Monica, you seem to have forgotten the Bologna Ragazzi Award that has just been assigned, it's a very important prize that is awarded during the Bologna Children's Book Fair. This year three American books received the honor mention: The Secret River, Orani and Lineup for Yesterday.
Amid jury members, that name experts in the field, was Julie Danielson, blogger at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast and reviewer at Kirkus. I hope the information can be useful!
Cristiana

[kimberb]

02:02 PM on 02/22/2012

Don't forget ForeWord Reviews' Book of the Year Awards, featuring only indie titles!!

[LoriB5]

10:35 AM on 02/22/2012

Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade is the 2012 winner of the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children (http://www.ncte.org/awards/orbispictus), given by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Later this year, the Children's Literature Assembly of NCTE will announce its 2012 list of Notable Children's Books in the English Language Arts (http://www.childrensliteratureassembly.org/notables.html).