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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

Book of the Year for Children Award

http://www.cla.ca/awards/boycwinners.htm

Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award

http://www.cla.ca/awards/afhgwinners.htm

Young Adult Canadian Book Award

http://www.cla.ca/awards/yawinners.htm

Canada Council for the Arts

Governor General's Literary Awards

http://www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/ggla/default.asp

International Board on Books for Young People

Canadian Section

http://www.ibby-canada.org/cleaver.html

Ontario Arts Council (OAC)

The Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards

http://www.arts.on.ca/English/The-Ruth-Schwartz-Childrens-Book-Award.html

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

Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People

http://www.bookcentre.ca/awards/bilson/index.shtml

United States Awards

American Library Association's Awards

http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=awards

Alex Awards (for the 10 best adult books with teen appeal)

http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists/alex

Caldecott Medal

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

Coretta Scott King Author Award

http://www.ala.org/ala/emiert/corettascottkingbookawards/winnersa/cskawardwinners.htm

The Laura Ingalls Wilder Award

http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/wildermedal/wildermedal.htm

Margaret A. Edwards Award (for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature)

http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/margaretaedwards/margaretedwards.htm

Michael L. Printz Award (for best young adult book in a given year)

http://www.ala.org/yalsa/printz

The Mildred L. Batchelder Award

Outstanding translated book for children http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/batchelderaward/batchelderaward.htm

Newbery Medal

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

Odyssey Award (for best audiobook production for youth)

http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/odyssey/odyssey.cfm

Pura Belpré Award

http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/belpremedal/belprmedal.htm

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

The National Book Award for Young People's Literature

http://www.nationalbook.org/nbawinners.html

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.)

The Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children

http://www.ncte.org/elem/awards/orbispictus

NCTE Award for Poetry for Children

http://www.ncte.org/elem/awards/poetry

15 Degree Laboratory

The Giverny Award

http://www.15degreelab.com/award.html

The Mystery Writers of America

Edgar Allan Poe Award

http://www.mysterywriters.org/pages/awards/index.htm

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