APPENDIX
F.
Juvenile Collection Development – Children’s
Book Awards
Award Books Recommended
for Purchase
John
Newbery Medal - Award
winner and honor books
Randolph
Caldecott Medal -
Award winner and honor books
- Nutmeg Children’s Book Award -
Award winner and nominee books
This award which is sponsored by CLA and CEMA, is given to promote the reading
of quality literature by children. Children in grades 4 to 6 throughout
Connecticut select the award winner.
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1999: Mick Harte Was Here
by Barbara Park
Michael L. Printz Award
- Award winner and
honor books
This YALSA
award, which will be given for the first time at the ALA Awards Press Conference
during the Midwinter Meeting, Jan 14-19, 2000,
honors the highest literary achievement in books for young adults.
The award will be presented annually to a work of fiction, non-fiction,
poetry, or anthology. Up to four
honor books may be selected.
YALSA
Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults
Scott
O’Dell Historical Fiction Award
Presented for a
work of historical fiction published by a U.S. publisher and set in the New
World.
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1999:
Forty Acres and Maybe a Mile by Harriette Gillem Robinet
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1998:
Out of the Dust
by Karen Hesse
Mildred
L. Batchelder Award ALSC
gives the award to an American publisher for a children’s book considered to
be the most outstanding of the books originally published in a foreign language
in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published
in the United States.
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1999: Thanks to My Mother by Schoschana Rabinovici
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1998: The Robber and Me by Josef Holub
Pura
Belpre Award Awarded
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.
- 1998:
For Narrative:Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida
by Victor Martinez and For Illustration: Snapshots
from the Wedding illustrated by Stephanie Garcia, text by Gary Soto
Americas
Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Given by
the Consortium of Latin American Studies Program (CLASP) in recognition of a
U.S. work (picture books, poetry, fiction, folklore) published in the previous
year in English or Spanish which authentically and engagingly presents the experience
of individuals in Latin America or the Caribbean, or
of Latinos in the Untied States. Books
are selected for their quality of story; cultural authenticity/sensitivity;
exceptional integration of text, illustration, and design; and potential for
classroom use.
- 1998:
Barrio: Jose’s Neighborhood/Barrio: El Barrio de Jose (dual
editions) by George Ancona
- and
Mama & Papa Have a Store by Amelia Lau Carling
Orbis
Pictus Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction for Children Given
annually by the NCTE to promote and recognize excellence in the writing of non-fiction
for children.
- 1999:
Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True
Story of Shackleton and the Endurance
by
Jennifer Armstrong and An
Extraordinary Life: the Story of a Monarch Butterfly by Laurence Pringle
Joan Fassler Memorial
Book Award for Best Medical-Related Children's Book Given
annually for excellence in children's literature dealing with medical or health-related
issues by the Association for the Care of Children's Health.
The primary target audience must be children or young people. The book
must deal with medical and health-related issues, such as illness, hospitalization,
disabilities, death, dying, or preventive healthcare.
1998:
Something to Remember Me By
by Susan V. Bosak
Sydney Taylor Awards Awarded
annually by the national Association of Jewish Libraries.
Marks the best Jewish books for children published in the preceding year.
Award has two categories: Younger
Children Award and Older Children Award.
1998:
Nine Spoons by Marci Stillerman (Younger Children) and
Stones
in Water by
Donna Jo Napoli (Older Children)
National Jewish Book Awards
The National
Jewish Book Awards, sponsored by the Jewish Book Council - the only organization
in North America created to serve as a national clearinghouse for Jewish liteary
activitity, recognize distinguished authors writing on Jewish themes, who have
published in the U.S. or Canada. The awards focus on either a particular book
or a body of work and are awarded in the areas of fiction, nonfiction, and children's
literature.
- Children's
Literature Award:
1998 Heeding the Call by Norman Finklestein
- Children's
Picture Book (Louis Posner Memorial Award):
1998 You Never Know by Francis Prose
Josette Frank Award (formerly
the Bank Street College Children’s Book Award) Awarded
annually to honor a work or the works of fiction 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.
- 1998 winner:
My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt
- 1997 winner:
No Turning Back: A Novel of South Africa by Beverley Naidoo
Flora Stieglitz Straus Award Awarded
annually by the Bank Street College for a non-fiction work that exemplifies
ideals of generosity of spirit and serves as an inspiration to young readers.
- 1998
winner: Iqbal Masih and the Crusaders Against Child Slavery by
Susan Kuklin
- 1997
winner: Oh Freedom! Kids Talk about the Civil Rights Movement with
the People Who Made It Happen by Casey King & Linda Barrett
Osborne
Claudia
Lewis Award Awarded
annually by the Bank Street College for the best children’s poetry book of the
year.
- 1998:
I, Too, Sing America by Catherine
Clinton
- 1997:
The Invisible Ladder: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poems for
Young Readers edited by
Liz Rosenberg
Aesop
Prize Awarded
by the Children’s Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society to the most
outstanding book or books incorporating folklore and published in English for
children or young adults.
1997:
The Hired Hand: an African-American Folktale by Robert D. San
Souci and Earth Tales from Around
the World by Michael J. Caduto
Boston
Globe-Horn Book Awards Awarded
for excellence in literature for children and young adults published in the
United States. Award categories
are for picture book, fiction and non-fiction.
- 1999:
Fiction Holes by Louis
Sachar
- Non-Fiction
The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest by Steve Jenkins
- Picture
Book Red-Eyed Tree Frog by
Joy Cowley
Award
Books Suggested for Consideration:
Giverny
Award
The Giverny Award, "The Best Children's Science Picture Book",
is an annual award established in 1998 by Dr. James H. Wandersee and Dr. Elisabeth
Schussler and decided by a panel of biology educators and plant scientists for
the 15 Degree Laboratory, currently based at Louisiana State University. It
is awarded to the author and to the illustrator of the chosen book.
The book must be a children's science picture book written in the English
language and published within five years of the award date, and teach its young
reader at least one important scientific principle, or encourage the reader
toward specific science-related pursuits or inquiry.
Nooks about plants and/or plant science have preference.
- 1999:
Sam Plants a Sunflower by Kate Petty
- 1998:
Common Ground: The Water, Earth, and Air We Share by Molly
Bang
Edgar
Allan Poe Awards Presented
for the Best Mystery in the “Best Children’s Novel” and “Best Young Adult Novel”
categories.
- 1999:
Best Young Adult: The Killer’s Cousin by Nancy Werlin
- 1999:
Best Children’s: Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief by Wendelin Van
Draanen
Irma
S. and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature Presented
annually by the Bank Street College to an outstanding book for young children
– a book in which text and illustrations are inseparable, each enhancing and
enlarging on the other to produce a singular whole.
Children are the final judges of the winning book.
- 1998:
Zak’s Lunch by Margie Palatini and
Raising Dragons by Jerdine Nolen
- 1997:
Akiak: A Tale from the Iditarod by Robert J. Blake
National
Book Award for Young People’s Literature Presented
annually by the National Book Foundation to recognize the outstanding contribution
to children’s literature. Added
in 1996 to the National Book Awards.
- 1998:
Holes by Louis Sachar
- 1997:
Dancing on the Edge by Han Nolan
Coretta
Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent
This award
is given to a black author and to a black illustrator for an outstanding book
and is designed to bring visibility to a writer or artist at the beginning of
his/her career as a published book creator.
1999:
The Piano Man by Debbie Chocolate and The Skin I'm In
by Sharon Flake
Ezra
Jack Keats New Writer Award Presented
biennially by the New York Public Library and the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation
to a writer who has published no more than five (5) children’s books which must
be multicultural and present the values pictured in the books of Keats.
- 1999:
Elizabeth’s Doll by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen
- 1997: Calling
the Doves by Juan Felipe Herrera
Jane
Addams Book Award Presented
annually since 1953 by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
and the Jane Addams Peace Association to the children’s book of the preceding
year that most effectively promotes the cause of peace, social justice, and
world community. Some years may
award “Longer Book” and “Picture Book” categories.
- 1997:
Longer Book: Growing up in Coal Country by Susan Campbell
Bartoletti and Shorter Book:
Wilma Unlimited by Kathleen Krull
Christopher
Awards Presented
to writers of books for young people which affirm the highest values of the
human spirit. Books for Young People
categories are ages 6-8, 8-10, 10-12, 12 and up, and young adult.
- 1999: 6-8
Raising Dragons by Jerdine Nolen
- 8-10
The Summer My Father Was Ten by Pat Brisson
- 10-12
Mary on Horseback: Three Mountain Stories by Rosemary Wells
- 12+up
Shipwreck Season by Donna Hill
- Young
Adult Holes by Louis Sachar
Other
book lists of interest:
NCTE
Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts
Outstanding
Science Trade Books for Children - National
Science Teachers Association (NSTA) and Children’s Book Council (CBC) publish
annually in March issue of Science and Children
Notable
Social Studies Trade Books for Young People - List
developed by the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and the
CBC aimed at children in grades K-8.
Diane
Tomasko, Assistant Librarian
