UTEP Library Research Guides: Children's & Young Adult Literature Resources: Book Awards

Using the Classic Catalog to Find Award-Winners

Need to find a book with an award?

1.) Find your award name here: How to Find Books with Awards

2.) Head on over to the the library webpage: https://www.utep.edu/library/

3.) Use the Classic Catalog's Advanced Search option. (Avoid using MinerQuest for this particular search!)

4.) In the drop-down menu, select the word "Note:" and type in your chosen award title.

5.) All the books that have been awarded and that UTEP has in the Children's Collection will come up.

Happy Searching!

Children's Literature Awards

Mildred L. Batchelder Award
The Batchelder Award is given to the most outstanding children’s book originally published in a language other than English in a country other than the United States, and subsequently translated into English for publication in the United States.
Pura Belpré Award
The award is named after Pura Belpré, the first Latina librarian at the New York Public Library. The Pura Belpré Award, established in 1996, is presented 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.
Caldecott Medal
The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
Geisel Award
The Geisel Award is given annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers published in English in the United States during the preceding year.
Coretta Scott King Awards
Designed to commemorate the life and works of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and to honor Mrs. Coretta Scott King for her courage and determination to continue the work for peace, the Coretta Scott King Book Awards annually recognize outstanding books for young adults and children by African American authors and illustrators that reflect the African American experience. Further, the Award encourages the artistic expression of the black experience via literature and the graphic arts in biographical, social, and historical treatments by African American authors and illustrators.
Newbery Medal
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.
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal
The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal is awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in the United States in English during the preceding year.
Wilder Award
The Wilder Award honors 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.
Tejas Star Reading List

Additional Book Awards

ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment) Book Awards
The ASLE book awards in the areas of ecocriticism and environmental creative writing recognize excellence in the field.
The Green Earth Book Award
The Green Earth Book Award is the nation’s first environmental stewardship book award for children and young adult books. Over 80 winning and honor books have been honored since 2005.

Young Adult Literature Awards

Alex Awards
The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18. The winning titles are selected from the previous year's publishing. The Alex Awards were first given annually beginning in 1998 and became an official ALA award in 2002.
Margaret A. Edwards Award
The Margaret A. Edwards Award, established in 1988, honors an author, as well as a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.
Michael L. Printz Award
The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature.
Morris Award
The William C. Morris YA Debut Award, first awarded in 2009, honors a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature.
National Book Awards -- Young People's Literature
Established in 1950, the National Book Award is an American literary prize administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization.
Newbery Medal
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.
Nonfiction Award
The YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction honors the best nonfiction book published for young adults (ages 12-18) during a Nov. 1 – Oct. 31 publishing year.
Stonewall Book Awards
The Stonewall Book Awards are presented to English language books that have exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience.

UTEP Library's List of All Awards

521 Middle School
521 Young Adult
Aesop Prize
African Studies Association Award
ALA Award
ALA Children's Notables & Best Books
ALA/YALSA Alex Award
ALSC Notable Books
Amelia Bloomer Top Ten
American Indian Youth Literature Award
American Institute of Physics Children’s Science – Writing Award
American Library Association Notable Children’s Books
Americas Literary Prizes
ASC African Studies Association
Asian Pacific American Award for Literature
Aurealis Award
Bank Street College Awards
Best Adult Books for High School Students
Best Book for Young Children
Booklist Editor's Choice
Boston Globe/Horn Book
Bulletin Blue Ribbon
Caldecott Medal
Carter G. Woodson Honors
CBI (Children’s Book Ireland)
Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children
Charlotte Zolotow Award
Children’s Africana Book Award, Best Book for Young Children
Children’s Book Council of Australia Shortlist
Children’s Notables & Best Books
Christopher Awards
CILIP Carnegie Medal/UK
CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal
Claudia Lewis Award
Coretta Scott King Prizes
Coretta Scott King, illustrator
Costa Children's Book Awards
Danish Cultural Ministry Prize
Edgar Allan Poe Award: Children's Awards
Edgars Award
Ezra Jack Keats Awards
Fleischman Humor Book Award
Flora Stieglitz Straus Award
Geisel Honor
Giverny Awards
Golden Duck Award/Hal Clement Award for Young Adult
Golden Duck Awards
Golden Kite Awards
Golden Kite Honors
Governor General’s Literary Awards
Great Graphic Novels for Teens (YALSA) Award
Green Earth Book Award
Griffith University Young Adult Book Award
Gustavus Myers Award
Hal Clement Award for Young Adult
Helen Sheehan YA Book Prize
Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award
Horn Book Fanfare List
Ignatz Award Winner
IJB
Int’l Reading Association Award
International Latino Book Awards
International Literacy Association (ILA) Award
International Reading Association
IRA Children’s and Young Adults Book Award
Irma Black Award Finalist
Jane Addams Book Award
John Steptoe New Talent Award
Junior Library Guild Selection
Kirkus Starred Review
Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children’s/Young Adult
Laura Ingalls Wilder Award
Le Prix Libby Lit
Libro de honor Newberry
Libro notable de la ALA
Lone Star List
Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Michael L. Printz Honors for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
Mildred L. Batchelder Award
Morris Award
Morris Debut Award
National Book Award Finalist
National Book Award Finalist, Young People’s Literature
National Book Award for Young People’s Literature
National Book Award: Children
National Jewish Book Council
National Jewish Book Award
National Jewish Children’s Book Award
National Science Teachers Association Outstanding Science Trade Book for Grades K – 12
Nebula Award
Nestle Smarts Book Prize Gold Award
New York Times Best Illustrated Books for Children
Newbery Prize
Newbery Honor Book
New Voices Award
Norma Fleck Award
Notable Book for a Global Society
Notable Children’s Books
Notable Children’s Trade Books/Social Studies
Notable Social Studies Trade Books For Young People
Odyssey Honor
Ontario Library Association’s Literary Initiative Award
Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children
Parents Choice Awards
Phoenix Award
Poetry
Publishers Weekly Starred Review
Pulitzer Prize
Pura Belpre Award
Premio Anaquel Lewis Carroll
Premio Apelles Mestres
Premio internacional Hans Christian Andersen
Premio Newbery
Queensland Literary Awards
Rainbow List: Top Ten GLBTQ Books
Robert F. Sibert Honor
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal
Royal Society Prizes for Science Books Junior Prize
Royal Society Young People's Book Prize
SB& F Prize for Excellence
Schneider Award
School Library Journal
School Library Journal Best Books
School List Journal Award
Scott O’Dell Award
Sendak Fellowship Recipient
Sibert Honor Book
South West Book Award
Starred Review
Stonewall Book Award
Sydney Taylor Book Award
Tayshas List
Texas Bluebonnet Award
Texas Children’s Crown Award
Texas Lone Star Reading List
Texas Maverick Graphic Novels Reading List
The Americas Award for Children’s & YA Literature
Theodor Seuss Geisel Medal
Tomas Rivera Mexican American Book Award
Top Ten (YALSA)
USBBY: Outstanding International Book List
USBBY's Outstanding International Books
Western Heritage Awards
Western Writers of America Spur Award
Whitbread Children’s Book Award
William C. Morris Debut YA Award Winner
YALSA Award
Young People’s Literature
Young Readers Choice Award
Young Readers Choice Award – Junior Division

Children's & Young Adult Literature Resources: Book Awards

Welcome!

Using the Classic Catalog to Find Award-Winners

Children's Literature Awards

Additional Book Awards

Young Adult Literature Awards

UTEP Library's List of All Awards