Children's and Young Adult Literature

Books for children and young adults with a focus on folklore and worldly culture.

Best writing and illustrations by and about American Indians.

Children’s and young adult books that portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States

Work about Asian/Pacific Americans and their heritage.

Lists and links for ALSC's award winning children's books.

This award for fiction honors a book or books of outstanding literary merit in which children or young people deal in a positive and realistic way with difficulties in their world and grow emotionally and morally.

Awarded to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the 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.

Most distinguished American picture book for children

Best Africana works for children presented by the African Studies Association

Authors and illustrators of African descent whose distinguished books promote an understanding and appreciation of the "American Dream."

Outstanding new writer or illustrator of picture books for children (age 9 and under).

Best children's science picture book.

A list of recommended graphic novels and illustrated nonfiction for those ages 12-18.

Children's book of the preceding year that most effectively promotes the cause of peace, social justice and world community.

Books and/or series written in the tradition of The Hobbit or the Chronicles of Narnia.

Two awards annually: one for chapter books and one for picture books.

Most distinguished contribution to American literature for children

Honors distinction in nonfiction for children.

Honors Latino writers and illustrators whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in children's books.

Honors an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.

English language books that have exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered experience.

Books that authentically reflect the lives of Mexican-American children and young adults in the U.S.