Award-winning Books for Children

Click the links below to view PDFs of recent award-winners and current nominees:
Rebecca Caudill Reading List 2011
Monarch Award Reading List 2011
Bluestem Award Reading List 2011

Rebecca Caudill Reading List 2012
Bluestem Award Reading List 2012
Monarch Award Reading List 2012

Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award
http://www.rebeccacaudill.org
An award for outstanding literature for children in grades 4 – 8.
Illinois children vote on the winner from a master list of 20 nominees.

2010 Rebecca Caudill Award Winner:

All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

Someone Named Eva by Joan M. Wolf ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

Elephant Run by Roland Smith ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

Monarch Award
http://www.islma.org/monarch.htm
Illinois' K-3 Children's Choice Award.

2010 Monarch Award Winner:

Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

Once I Ate a Pie by Patricia MacLachlan & Emily MacLachlan Charest ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

The Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Campbell Ernst ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

Newbery Medal and Honor Books
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/newberymedal/newberymedal.htm
Awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

2011 Newbery Medal Winner:

Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

Caldecott Medal and Honor Books
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/caldecottmedal/caldecottmedal.htm
Awarded annually to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.

2011 Caldecott Medal:

A Sick Day for Amos McGee illustrated by Erin E. Stead, written by Philip C. Stead ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

Dave the Potter: Arist, Poet, Slave illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Laban Carrick Hill ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author... More from this Illustrator...

Interrupting Chicken illustrated and written by David Ezra Stein ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

2010 Coretta Scott King Author Award:

One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty by Greg Neri ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

For illustration:

Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Laban Carrick Hill ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author... More from this Illustrator...

National Book Awards Winner Young People's Literature
http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2008_ypl_blundell.html

2010 National Book Award – Young People’s Literature:

Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

Charlotte Zolotow Award
http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/zolotow.asp
Given annually to the author of the best picture book text published in the United States in the preceding year.

2010 Charlotte Zolotow Award Winner:

What Can You Do With a Paleta? by Carmen Tafolla, illustrated by Magaly Morales ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author... More from this Illustrator...

Princess Hyacinth (The Surprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated) by Florence Parry Heide, illustrated by Lane Smith ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author... More from this Illustrator...

Birds by Kevin Henkes, illustrated by Laura Dronzek ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author... More from this Illustrator...

Pouch! by David Ezra Stein ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

Notable Children’s Books (American Library Association)
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/childrensnotable/notablechibooks/index.cfm

Edgar Allan Poe Award (Mystery Writers of America)
http://www.mysterywriters.org/index.htm

2010 Best Juvenile Mystery:

Closed for the Season by Mary Downing Hahn ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

The Schneider Family Book Award
http://www.ala.org/ala/awardsbucket/schneideraward/schneiderawardrecipients.htm
Awarded to an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.

2011 Young Children’s Book:

The Pirate of Kindergarten by George Ella Lyon, illustrated by Lynne Avril ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author... More from this Illustrator...

After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

Five Flavors of Dumb by Antony John ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

The Pura Belpré Award
http://www.ala.org/
"Presented 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."

2010 Pura Belpre Award:
For narrative:

The Dreamer by Pam Munoz Ryan, illustrated by Peter Sis ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author... More from this Illustrator...

Ole! Flamenco by George Ancona ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba by Margarita Engle ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

90 Miles to Havana by Enrique Flores-Galbis ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

Grandma's Gift illustrated and written by Eric Velasquez ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

The Michael J. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/printzaward/Printz,_Michael_L__Award.htm
Awarded annually to a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature.

2010 Michael J. Printz Award:

Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

Stolen by Lucy Christopher ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from the Author...

Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

Nothing by Janne Teller ...Read more... Check the Catalog More from this Author...

Best Books for Young Adults (American Library Association)
http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/bestbooksyoung.htm