Berntsen Library: EEL4347 Children's Literature: Honors &amp; Awards

Finding Honors Books in Library Search

You can use the last name of any of the Awards as search term in Library Search.

Example: Caldecott or Newberry or Batchelder If there is more than one word in the award, use quotes "Minnesota Youth Book Award"

You will get information about the awards, but using the location limit on the left will show you the books in the
Early Reader or Juvenile Fiction sections of the library.
Our Library has collected winners since the 1960's so we have a sizable collection.

Medal Award Books

ALSC Book, Print & Media Awards
This page provides of a brief description of each award offered by ALSC with a link to view more information about the award and the winners.
Browse Randolph Caldecott Awardees by Year
Browse John Newbery Awardees by Year
Browse all ALSC Awards

The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander; Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1328780961
Publication Date: 2019-04-02
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
Call Number: J Fiction K284w
ISBN: 9781524715700
Publication Date: 2020-01-28
We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom; Michaela Goade (Illustrator)
Call Number: Early Reader L654w
ISBN: 9781250203557
Publication Date: 2020-03-17

Awards

The Berntsen Library regularly collects the books selected for any of several awards. This page also includes sources to help teachers choose "good" books for their classrooms.

Randolph Caldecott Medal and Honors
Awarded for outstanding illustration (annual)
John Newbery Medal and Honors
Awarded for outstanding story (annual)
Minnesota Youth Reading Awards (MYRA)
Star of the North Award
MYRA children's choice book award for Minnesota Schools. The purpose is to encourage recreational reading among school age children. Nominated titles are works of fiction of recognized quality selected by independent regional reading groups.
Maud Hart Lovelace Award
MYRA children's choice book award for Minnesota Schools. The purpose is to encourage recreational reading among school age children. Nominated titles are works of fiction of recognized quality selected by independent regional reading groups.
Mildred Batchelder Award
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. (annual)
Theodore Seuss Geisel Award
Most distinguished beginning reader book. (annual)
Coretta Scott King Book Award
Outstanding books for young adults and children by African American authors and illustrators that reflect the African American experience. (annual)
Parents' Choice Awards®
Established in 1978 and retired in 2022, Parents’ Choice Awards® was the nation’s oldest nonprofit program created to recognize quality children’s toys and media. In a landscape awash with products marketed as “educational,” the Parents’ Choice Awards Program identifies those that live up to the marketing claims. Our selection process screens for originality of design and purpose, long-term learning value, long-term play value, fair market value, and fun. Parents’ Choice Award winners attest to the power of learning through play.

What's a "Good" Kids Book?

Criteria for what constitutes a "good" book for children is as varied as their readers.

Below are some award criteria that might help:

EEL4347 Children's Literature

Finding Honors Books in Library Search

Medal Award Books

Awards

What's a "Good" Kids Book?

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