Prizes and Awards

Children's Books

2 X 2 Reading List (Age 2 through 2^nd Grade) (Texas Library Association)
ABC-CLIO Online History Award (RUSA; ALA)
ALCTS Outstanding Publication Award (ALCTS; ALA)
Alex Award (YALSA; ALA)
Batchelder Award (ALSC; ALA)
Best Books 2010: Fiction (School Library Journal)
Best Books 2010: Nonfiction (School Library Journal)
Best Books 2010: Picture Books (School Library Journal)
Best Books for Children (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
Best Books for Junior High and High School Readers (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
Best Books for Young Adults (YALSA; ALA)
Best Videos and Software (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
Blue Ribbons (Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books)
Bluebonnet Award (Texas Library Association's Children’s Round Table and the Texas Association of School Librarians)
Bookapalooza (ALSC; ALA)
Booklist Editors’ Choice: Adult Books (Booklist)
Booklist Editors’ Choice: Adult Books for Young Adults (Booklist)
Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth (Booklist)
Booklist Editors’ Choice: Media (Booklist)
Booklist Editors’ Choice: Reference Sources (Booklist)
Booklist Editors’ Choice: Top of the List (Booklist)
Caldecott Medal (ALSC; ALA)
Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals
Charlotte Zolotow Award (Cooperative Children’s Book Center, U. of Wisconsin-Madison)
Children’s Choices (International Reading Association)
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Costa Book Award
Dartmouth Medal (RUSA; ALA)
Donald G. Davis Article Award (Library History Round Table; ALA)
Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award (Library History Round Table; ALA)
Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology (OCLC; LITA; ALA)
Giverney Awards
Golden Kite Awards
Governor General's Literary Awards
Great Graphic Novels for Teens (YALSA; ALA)
Great Web Sites for Kids (ALSC; ALA)
Hans Christian Anderson Medals
IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award
John Newbery Medal (ALSC; ALA)
Josette Frank Award (Bank Street)
Justin Winsor Prize Essay (Library History Round Table; ALA)
Laura Ingalls Wilder Award (ALSC; ALA)
Lone Star List (Texas State Library)
Louis Shores–Greenwood Publishing Group Award (RUSA; ALA)
Man Booker Prize
Margaret A. Edwards Award (YALSA; ALA)
Margaret T. Lane/ Virginia F. Saunders Memorial Research Award (GODORT; ALA)
Mark Twain Award
Maureen Hayes Author/Illustrator Award (ALSC; ALA)
Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List (Texas Library Association)
May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award (ALSC; ALA)
Mildred L. Batchelder Award (ALSC; ALA)
National Book Award
National Book Critics Circle Award
Newbery Medal (ALSC; ALA)
Nobel Prize for Literature
Notable Books for Children (Smithsonian Magazine)
Notable Children's Recordings (ALSC; ALA)
Notable Children's Videos (ALSC; ALA)
Notable Tradebooks for Young People (National Council for the Social Studies)
Outstanding Reference Sources (RUSA; ALA)
Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K–12 (National Science Teachers Association)
Paul A. Witty Outstanding Literature Award
Paul A. Witty Short Story Award
PEN/Faulkner Award
Phyllis Dain Library History Award (Library History Round Table; ALA)
Pulitzer Prize
Rainbow Project Book List (GLBTRT; ALA)
Randolph Caldecott Medal (ALSC; ALA)
Reading List (RUSA; ALA)
Reference Service Press Award (RUSA; ALA)
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal (ALSC; ALA)
Sophie Brody Award (RUSA; ALA)
Stonewall Book Awards (GLBTRT; ALA)
STS Oberly Award for Bibliography in the Agricultural or Natural Sciences (ACRL; ALA)
Sydney Taylor Awards
Teachers’ Choices (International Reading Association)
Teens' Top Ten (YALSA; ALA)
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award (ALSC; ALA)
William C. Morris Debut YA Award (YALSA; ALA)
W(illiam).Y(oung). Boyd Literary Award (ALA)
Young Adults’ Choices (International Reading Association)
Young Reader's Choice Award (Pacific Northwest Library Association)

ACLS                Association for Library Services to Children (ALA)
ACRL               Association of College and Research Libraries (ALA)
ALA                  American Library Association
ALCTS             Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALA)
ALSC               Association for Library Service to Children
EMIERT           Ethnic & Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table
GLBTRT          Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table
GODORT        Government Documents Round Table (ALA)
LAMA              Library Administration and Management Association (ALA)
LITA                Library and Information Technology Association (ALA)
LRRT               Library Research Round Table (ALA)
OCLC             Online Computer Library Center, Inc.