Children's Book Awards
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Andrew
Carnegie Medal
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The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video award is
given to honor outstanding video productions for children released during the
previous year. This award started in 1991 and is given to the video's
producer by the Association for Library Service to Children(ALSC), a division
of ALA, through a Carnegie endowment.
http://www.ala.org/alsc/carnegie.html
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Caldecott Medal Home
Page
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The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually to the artist of the most
distinguished American picture book for children. It is named in
honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott
and awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to
Children, a division of the American Library Association. http://www.ala.org/alsc/caldecott.html
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Children's Notables Notable
Children's Book 2002
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The Children's Notables provides a annotated select list of excellent
children's books published in the proceeding year. Notable children's books
are chosen to include include "books of especially commendable quality, books
that exhibit venturesome creativity, and books of fiction, information,
poetry and pictures for all age levels (through age 14) that reflect and
encourage children's interests in exemplary ways."
http://www.ala.org/alsc/awards.html
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Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal
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The Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal (a bronze medal) "honors an author or
illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made, over of
period of years, a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for
children. It is administered by the Association for Library Service to
Children, a division of the American Library Association, the Laura Ingalls
Wilder Award was first given to its namesake in 1954." http://www.ala.org/alsc/wilder.html
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Maud Hart
Lovelace Book Award
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Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award is divided into two divisions. A
winner for a title for grades three through five, and a winner
for grades six through eight. "Maud Hart Lovelace was a Minnesota author who grew up in Mankato,
Minnesota. Her Betsy-Tacy books tell of her childhood in the town she calls
"Deep Valley." Each year since 1980, the year of her death, there
has been a Minnesota reading contest for third through eighth graders.
A committee comprised of teachers and librarians selects the titles
for the contest each spring, and students read the books on the list
during the following school year. In March the students vote on their
favorite book from the list, and on April 25, the anniversary of
Maud's birthday, the winner is announced."http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/lovelace/lovelace.html
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May Hill Arbuthnot Honor
Lecture Award
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"The recipient of the ALSC award, named at the ALA midwinter meeting, and
announced as soon as that person has accepted the appointment, may be an
author, critic, librarian, historian, or teacher of children's literature, of
any country, who shall prepare a paper considered to be a significant
contribution to the field of children's literature. Once the name is made
public, institutions wishing to host the lecture may apply. A library school,
department of education in college or university, or a children's library
system may be considered. This paper is delivered as a lecture each April,
and is subsequently published in the ALSC publication, Journal of Youth
Services in Libraries. Scott, Foresman established the lecture series in
1969." http://www.ala.org/alsc/arbuth.html
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Mildred L. Batchelder Award
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"This award, established in her honor in 1966, is a citation awarded to an
American publisher 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. ALSC gives the award to encourage American publishers to
seek out superior children's books abroad and to promote communication among
the peoples of the world." http://www.ala.org/alsc/batch.html
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Newbery Medal Home Page
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"The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller
John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library
Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association,
to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American
literature for children."
http://www.ala.org/alsc/newbery.html
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Pura Belpré
Award
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"The Pura Belpré Award, established in 1996, is 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. It is co-sponsored by
the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division
of the American Library Association (ALA) and the National Association
to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the
Spanish-Speaking (REFORMA), an ALA Affiliate." http://www.ala.org/alsc/belpre.html
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Robert F. Sibert
Informational Book Award
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"The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, established in 2001, is
awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished informational book
published during the preceding year. The award is named in honor of Robert F.
Sibert, the long-time President of Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc. of
Jacksonville, Illinois, and is sponsored by the company. ALSC administers the
award." http://www.ala.org/alsc/sibert.html
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National Science Teachers
Association (NSTA)
Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students
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"A cooperative project between the National Science Teachers Association and
the Children's Book Council. This list is published annually in the March
issue of Science and Children, the journal devoted to preschool through
middle level science teaching. The books on the list are targeted at grades
K-8." http://www.nsta.org/
Outstanding Science Trade Books for
Children
2006 |
http://www.nsta.org/ostbs06 |
2005 |
http://www.nsta.org/ostbs05 |
2004 |
http://www.nsta.org/ostbs04 |
2003 |
http://www.nsta.org/ostbs03 |
2002 |
http://www.nsta.org/ostbs02 |
2001 |
http://www.nsta.org/ostbc01 |
2000 |
http://www.nsta.org/ostbc00 |
1999 |
http://www.nsta.org/ostbc99 |
1998 |
http://www.nsta.org/ostbc98 |
1997 |
http://www.nsta.org/ostbc97 |
1996 |
http://www.nsta.org/ostbc96 |
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Notable Social Studies Books for Young People
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"The books that appear in these annotated book lists were evaluated and
selected by a Book Review Committee appointed by National Council for the
Social Studies (NCSS) and assembled in cooperation with the Children's Book
Council (CBC). NCSS and CBC have cooperated on this annual bibliography since
1972. Books selected for this bibliography are written primarily for children
in grades K-8." Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young
People
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Social Education May/June issue 2006 |
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http://downloads.ncss.org/notable/notable2005.pdf |
2004 |
http://downloads.ncss.org/notable/notable2004.pdf |
2003 |
http://downloads.ncss.org/notable/notable2003.pdf |
2002 |
http://downloads.ncss.org/notable/notable2002.pdf |
2001 |
http://downloads.ncss.org/notable/notable2001.pdf |
2000 |
http://downloads.ncss.org/notable/notable2000.pdf |
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