ALSC:
Awards and Notables
Current
and previous award winners and notable books selected by
the Association for Library Service to Children. Includes
the Newbery and Caldecott Awards. This website also
lists notable computer programs, recordings, videos, and
websites.
http://www.ala.org/alsc/awards.html
Bestselling
Children's Titles of Last Year
The
Book Hive
This award-winning
site has book reviews, booklists for all types of genres,
and a create-your-own favorites feature.
http://www.bookhive.org/
Boston
Globe-Horn Book Awards
Caldecott
Medal Official Site
In addition
to profiling the current Caldecott Medal winner and honor
books, this site offers: Quick, Print-out-able List of All
Caldecott Medal Winners, 1938-1998; About the Medal, and
How It Is Awarded; and Past Caldecott Medal Winners and
Honor Books.
http://www.ala.org/alsc/caldecott.html
Caldecott
Medal
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Coooperative
Children's Book Center
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Carol
Hurst’s Children’s Literature Site
This is
a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of
ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books
and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas,
themes and professional topics.
http://www.carolhurst.com/
Children’s
Book Awards
The most
comprehensive guide to English-language children’s
book awards on the Internet. The lists are arranged
by country.
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/awards.html
Coooperative
Children's Book Center
Coretta
Scott King Awards
Database
of Award-Winning Children’s Literature
The
purpose of this database is to create a tailored reading
list of quality children's literature or to find out if
a book has won one of the indexed awards.
http://www.dawcl.com
Illinois Readers
Choice Awards
The Illinois
School Library Media Association sponsors the Monarch Award (K-3rd grade), the Rebecca Caudill Award (4-8th
grade) and the Abraham Lincoln Award (9-12th
grade) in which Illinois students vote for their favorites.
http://www.islma.org/grants_awards.htm
National
Book Award for Young People's Literature
The
Newbery Medal Official Site
Read about
the best books and their authors in their Official site.
The award is given 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.
http://www.ala.org/alsc/newbery.html
Newbery
Medal
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Rebecca
Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award
An Illinois
award for outstanding literature for young people as voted
by fourth through eighth graders. This site includes
lists of nominees and winners since its inception in 1988,
plus student reviews and drawings.
http://www.rebeccacaudill.org/
