Book Awards - Anastasia Suen

In 2019, Alma and How She Got her Name, by Juana Martinez-Neal, one of my former students, was selected as a Caldecott Honor Book.

Each year, book awards are given by many different groups that support literacy. Each group has its own mission and audience.

Industry professionals (booksellers, agents, and editors) know these books because they have read them. If you are writing for the same audience, they expect you to know these books, too.

Go back five years and begin reading there. Most libraries will have copies of the older award winners for you to check out.

15º Laboratory at Louisiana State University
Giverny Award

American Booksellers Association
E.B. White Read Aloud Awards
Indies Choice Book Awards 2010-2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
(No ABA awards during the pandemic: 2020, 2021, 2022)

ALA (American Library Association)
Coretta Scott King Award
John Steptoe New Talent Award
Schneider Family Book Award
Stonewall Book Awards
Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement

ALA Affiliates
American Indian Youth Literature Award
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
Sydney Taylor Book Award

ALSC (Association for Library Service to Children)
Batchelder Award
Belpré Medal
Caldecott Medal
Children’s Literature Legacy Award
Geisel Award
Newbery Medal
Sibert Informational Book Medal

Arab American National Museum
Arab American Book Award

Boston Globe / Horn Book Magazine
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award

Center for Children’s Literature (CBC)
Irma Black Award
The Cook Prize

Children’s Literature Association (ChLA)
Phoenix Award
Phoenix Picture Book Award

Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP)
Américas Award

Costa Coffee
Costa Book Awards

CYBILS (Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’s Literary Awards)
CYBILS Awards

Ezra Jack Keats Foundation
Ezra Jack Keats Book Award

International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY)
Hans Christian Andersen Awards