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Getting Started Guide: Children's Literary Awards: Others

Caldecott, Newbery, etc.

Pura Belpré Medal

The Pura Belpré medal has been awarded since 1996 (biannually 1996-2008; now annually) "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."


 

Theodor Seuss Geisel Medal

The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award has been awarded annually since 2006 "to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers."


 

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal has been awarded annually since 2001 "to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book," for children.


 

Schneider Family Book Award

The Schneider Family Book Awards honor an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.

Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award

Stonewall Book Awards are presented to English language books that have exceptional merit relating to the LGBTQIA+ experience.

Children's Literature Legacy Award Recipients

The award was first given in 1954 to Laura Ingalls Wilder and was named after her. Beginning in 2018 the award was renamed The Children's Literature Legacy Award. It became an annual award in 2016. "an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made, over a period of years, a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children."


 

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