Children's Literature Award Sites

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= International Awards =

Mythopoeic Society Mythopoeic Awards.
Awarded for fantasy for children and for adults, and for scholarship in Myth and Fantasy Studies. - 1971 to present http://www.mythsoc.org/awards.html

Children's Literature Association
Phoenix Award. Awarded annually to a book orginally published in English twenty years previously which did not receive a major award at the time of its publication. - 1989 to present http://chla.wikispaces.com/Phoenix+Award

International Board on Books for Young People
Established 1956. Currently awarded every two years to one author and one illustrator in recognition of his or her entire body of work http://www.ibby.org/index.php?id=273&L=0.html

= Canadian Awards =

Canadian Library Association
http://www.cla.ca/awards/boycwinners.htm
 * Book of the Year for Children Award

http://www.cla.ca/awards/afhgwinners.htm
 * Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award

http://www.cla.ca/awards/yawinners.htm
 * Young Adult Canadian Book Award

Canada Council for the Arts
http://www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/ggla/default.asp
 * Governor General's Literary Awards

International Board on Books for Young People
http://www.ibby-canada.org/cleaver.html
 * Canadian Section

Ontario Arts Council (OAC)
http://www.arts.on.ca/English/The-Ruth-Schwartz-Childrens-Book-Award.html
 * The Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards

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Rocky Mountain Book Award: Alberta's Children's Choice Book Award
http://rmba.lethsd.ab.ca/

Email: rockymountainbookaward@shaw.ca

Canadian Children’s Book Centre's
http://www.bookcentre.ca/awards/bilson/index.shtml
 * Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People

= United States Awards =

American Library Association's Awards
http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=awards

http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists/alex
 * Alex Awards (for the 10 best adult books with teen appeal)

http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/caldecottmedal/caldecottmedal.htm
 * Caldecott Medal

http://www.ala.org/ala/emiert/corettascottkingbookawards/winnersa/cskawardwinners.htm
 * Coretta Scott King Author Award

http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/wildermedal/wildermedal.htm
 * The Laura Ingalls Wilder Award

http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/margaretaedwards/margaretedwards.htm
 * Margaret A. Edwards Award (for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature)

http://www.ala.org/yalsa/printz
 * Michael L. Printz Award (for best young adult book in a given year)

Outstanding translated book for children http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/batchelderaward/batchelderaward.htm
 * The Mildred L. Batchelder Award

http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/newberymedal/newberymedal.htm
 * Newbery Medal

http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/odyssey/odyssey.cfm
 * Odyssey Award (for best audiobook production for youth)

http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/belpremedal/belprmedal.htm
 * Pura Belpré Award

Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards
Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children’s Literature http://www.hbook.com/awards/bghb/current.asp

National Book Foundation
http://www.nationalbook.org/nbawinners.html
 * The National Book Award for Young People's Literature

Society Of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
Golden Kite Award http://www.scbwi.org/awards.htm

National Council of Teachers of English (U.S.)
http://www.ncte.org/elem/awards/orbispictus
 * The Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children

http://www.ncte.org/elem/awards/poetry
 * NCTE Award for Poetry for Children

15 Degree Laboratory
http://www.15degreelab.com/award.html
 * The Giverny Award

The Mystery Writers of America
http://www.mysterywriters.org/pages/awards/index.htm
 * Edgar Allan Poe Award

The Jane Addams Peace Association
The Jane Addams Children's Book Awards http://home.igc.org/~japa/jacba/index_jacba.html

Illinois School Library Media Association
Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award http://www.rcyrba.org/

William Allen White Book Award
Selected by Kansas young people in the 4th to 8th grades. http://waw.emporia.edu/

Massachusetts Children's Book Award
Selected by students in grades 4-6. http://www.salemstate.edu/education/mcba/

Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature
Recognizes a New York State author who has demonstrated, through a body of work, a consistently superior quality which supports the curriculum and the educational goals of New York State schools. http://www.nyla.org/index.php?page_id=632

Texas Bluebonnet Awards
Honors a U.S. book selected by the students of Texas. http://www.txla.org/groups/tba/

Children's Literature Association of Utah (CLAU)
Beehive Awards(formerly entitled Utah Children's Book Awards) http://www.clau.org/

The Dorothy Canfield Book Award
Vermont's Students' Choice Award. http://homepage.mac.com/crowleyvt/dcfaward/dcf/index.html

South Carolina Association of School Librarians
SCASL Children's Book Awards http://www.scasl.net/bkawards/cba.htm

= British Book Awards =

The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (The [British] Library Association)
http://carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/carnegie/
 * The Carnegie Medal

For Illustration http://carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/greenaway/
 * The Kate Greenaway Medal

Whitbread Breweries
http://www.costabookawards.com/
 * The Costa Award (formerly the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year)

= French =

Wikipedia's French Languge Literary Awards
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:French_literary_awards
 * Children and Adult Books Awards

= Australia =

Australian Children's Book Council Awards
http://www.cbc.org.au/awards1.htm
 * Children's Book of the Year Awards for older readers

http://www.cbc.org.au/qld/rankin.htm
 * The Dame Annabelle Rankin Award for Distinguished Services to Children's Literature in Queensland

Queensland's children's choice awards http://www.cbc.org.au/qld/bilby.htm
 * The Bilby Awards

Outstanding contribution to the field of Australian children's literature http://www.cbc.org.au/awards2.htm
 * The Nan Chauncy Award

http://www.cbc.org.au/awards3.htm
 * The Crichton Award for New Illustrators

Australian Children's Choice Awards
http://www.thekangas.org.au/
 * The Kanga (previously CROW) awards are the South Australian children’s choice awards

http://www.koalansw.org.au/
 * KOALA - Kids Own Australian Literature Awards are annual awards made by young readers in NSW to the Australian books

Tasmania's Children's Choice Award http://members.iinet.net.au/%7Eabresneh/index.htm
 * Cyber - Children's Yearly Best Ever Reads

http://www.wayrba.iinet.net.au/
 * The West Australian Young Readers Book Award

http://home.vicnet.net.au/%7Eyabba/
 * YABBA - Young Australians' Best Book Award

Children's Peace Literature Award
http://www.psychology.org.au/aps/awards/1.4_10.asp

Environment Award for Children's Literature
http://www.wilderness.org.au/about/bookaward

The Aurealis Awards
http://www.fantasticqueensland.com/~aurealisawards/home.html

Dromkeen Medal
http://www.scholastic.com.au/common/dromkeen/medal.asp