Adult Book
Awards
 1999 O'Henry
Awards
Short fiction award.
2000
National
Book Awards
This award was established in 1950. Called American
Book Award from 1980-86.( See also The National
Book Foundation for National Book Month). Recipients are selected by U.S. publishers in various
categories. There are two cash award prizes for fiction and nonfiction.
Amazon
Book Company
Awards List
Award Web
Awards
This site connects to awards
lists: Nobel,
Pulitzer, all
major prizes.
Bookwire
An internet resource dedicated to new titles, new authors, and the general
scoop on the book industry! Search book reviews, read about the latest
releases, watch author video clips, and learn about upcoming book events.
The Pulitzer
Prizes
The
Edgar Awards
Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best
in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television and film.
Children's
Literature
Awards
Alex
Awards
Site from YALSA. Top adult books enjoyed by young
adults.
Book Sense Book of
the Year Award (formerly The ABBY
Award)
American Booksellers Children's Book of the
Year.
Boston
Globe-Horn Book Awards
Awarded since
1967 by the
Boston
Globe &
Horn
Book Magazine.
Caldecott
Medal
The awards are sponsored by the
Association for
Library
Service
to
Children's Division of
the American Library Association. The award is given to the illustrator of the
most
distinguished picture book for children published in the United States
during the preceding year. Only U.S. citizens or residents are
eligible.
Charlotte
Zolotow Award 2000
Outstanding picture book award.
Children's
Literature Web Guide
International
Reading Association Children's Book Awards
The awards are given for an author's first or second
published book.
Four awards will be
for fiction and non-fiction in two age
categories: younger readers (ages 4-10); older readers
(ages 10-17). Books from any country written in any language
copyrighted
during
1999 are considered.
Michael
Printz Award
This yearly award is for the book that exemplifies literary excellence in
young adult literature.
1999
National Book
Awards for Young People's Literature
The award is for outstanding contribution to young people's
literature. From
Publishers Weekly.
Newbery Medal
Sponsored by the American
Library
Association. Given to the author of the most
distinguished contribution to children's literature published during
the preceding year. Only U.S. citizens or residents are eligible for this
award.
SCBWI Golden Kite
Award
Presented by the Society of Children's Book
Writers and
Illustrators to children's book authors and illustrators by their
fellows.
SLJ Online.
Awards Announcement
Society of
School Librarians International Awards
Annual award for the best
book for young people in the following categories:
Elementary
Language
Arts - Picture Books; Elementary Language Arts, K-6 - Novels;
Secondary Language Arts, 7-12 - Novels; Social Studies - Elementary, K-6;
Social Studies -Secondary, 7-12; Science Books - Elementary, K-6;
Science Books - Secondary, 7-12.
Audiovisual Materials
Awards
2000 Notable Children's
Recordings
2000 Notable Computer
Software for Children
2000 Notable Videos for
Children
Awarded by the Association for Library Service to
Children
Notable Children's Web
Sites 2000
Awarded by the Association for Library Service to
Children,
American Library Association
ALSC Awards and
Notable
Andrew Carnegie
Medal for Excellence in Children's Video
Award to honor outstanding video productions for children released in the preceding
year.
APA Audie
Awards
BESSIE Award
Given by ComputED Learning Lab, San Diego. Recognition for innovative and content-rich
educational software appropriate for family purchase.
Booklist: Editor's
Choice
Video, computer software, CD-ROMs,
audio, audiobooks
and distributors.
Codie
Awards
Award is for excellence in computer software. Awards from Software Publishers
Association (SPA).
Early
Childhood News. Annual Director's Choice Awards
SLJ
Online. Best CD-ROMs
School Library Journal
Talkies Award
Awards by the
audio
book industry of
the U K to outstanding "talking" books in both adult and youth categories.
Historical
Fiction
Scott O'Dell
Historical Fiction Award
International
Publishing
Australian
Literary Awards and Prize
Carnegie
Medal [United Kingdom]
Sponsored by The Library
Association of the United Kingdom and presented annually to an outstanding
book published in the United Kingdom
Kate
Greenaway Medal [United Kingdom]
Presented by
The Library Association of the United Kingdom annually for the
most distinguished work in the illustration of children's books
published in the United Kingdom.
Mildred
L. Batchelder Award
Given to an American publisher for the
most
outstanding children's book originally published in a foreign language
in
a foreign country.
New Zealand Literary
Prizes, Awards
Whitbread
Award for a Children's Novel [New Zealand]
Magazines
Paul A.
Witty Short Story Award
Awarded to the author of an original short story
published
for the first time during
SCBWI Magazine Merit
Awards
Awarded by Society of Children's Book Writers
and Illustrators
(SCBWI) each year to honor members' outstanding original magazine work
published during that year.
Multicultural Book Awards
Americas
Award
Awarded by CLASP
to
U.S. work published
in
the previous year in English or Spanish which authentically or
engagingly presents the experiences of individuals in Latin America
or the Caribbean or Latinos in the U.S.
Carter G. Woodson
Award
Award for the most distinguished social science books appropriate for
young
readers which depict ethnicity in the United States.
Coretta Scott King
Award
Awarded annually by
the American Library Association to a
black author and a black illustrator whose works "encourage and promote" world unity and peace and serve as an
inspiration to young people.
National Jewish Book Awards
The awards include awards for children's books and
children's
picture books (Louis Posner Memorial Award).
Pura Belpre
Award
Mysteries
BlackBird Mysteries
Awards
Major book awards for
mysteries;
Agatha Christie Award; Dagger; Dilys Winn; Edgar Awards; Anthony
Awards;
Hammett
Prize; Macavity Awards; Nero Wolf Awards; Shamus Awards
The Edgars-Mystery
Writiers of America
Presented for best mystery in a variety of categories.
Nonfiction Awards
The
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award-Nonfiction
Fiction and poetry; nonfiction; picture
books
Children's Book
Guild. Award for Nonfiction
Society of School
Librarians International
Awards for nonfiction, K-12.
Poetry
Awards
American
Academy of Poets
This site currently includes award winners, biographies, photos, and other
information on more than 500 poets, with new pages being added all the
time.
Lee
Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award
Award to a single volume of poetry published
for children
in a calendar year.
Lee Bennett
Hopkins Promising Poet Award
Award given every three years to a
promising new
author of children's poetry
Poetry Society of
America Awards (Adult awards)
Reference
Books
Booklist:
Editor's Choice
MARS Best of Free
Reference Web Sites
Science Award
Giverny Book
Award 2000
Award given each year by the 15 Degree Laboratory to the
author and illustrator of the book it has selected for recognition as
"Best Children's Science Picture Book"
Outstanding Science Trade
Books for Children
National Science Teachers Association
Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12.
Science Books & Films
Editor's Choice Columns
Includes "Best Books for Children," "Best
Books for Junior
High and High School Readers," "Best Films and Videos," and
"Editor's Choice Selections"- Paid subscription required
Science Fiction, Fantasy and
Horror Awards
The Arthur C. Clarke
Award
British science fiction award
Bram Stoker
Award
From the Horror Writers Association (HWA).
Awards for novel,
first novel, long fiction, short story, collections, nonfiction and
life
achievement, specialty press and Hammer Award.
Hugo
Awards
Science fiction awards given from the
World
Science Fiction Society (WSFS).
Mythopoeic
Awards
SFWA Nebula
Awards
Science
fiction
awards given by the
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc.
Social Studies
Notable
Children's Trade Books in the Social Sciences
Awarded by the National Council for the Social Sciences.
Society of
School Librarians International
Awards in social studies, K-12
Traditional
Literature
(Folklore)
Aesop
Prize
Award from the American Folklore Society
for outstanding book/s incorporating folklore published in English for
young
adults
Best Books
Lists
2000 Notable Children's
Books
ALA RUSA Notable
Books
American Booksellers
Association. Kids' Pick of the Lists
Best books lists for Toddler and Board Books,
Picture Books &
Early Readers;
Middle Readers Young Adult Literature ; General Nonfiction; Science & Nature;
etc..
Booklist:
Editor's Choice
Bulletin
of the
Center for Children's Books. Blue Ribbons Books
Best of the previous year's literature for
children and
young adults. Includes
picture books, easy readers, fiction and nonfiction.
Children's
Literature-Best Books Lists
SLJ Best
Books 2000
Children's Literature
Choices
Hungry Mind Review. 100
Best 20th-Century American Books
Follow the links to the lists.
YALSA's Outstanding
Books for the College Bound
YALSA
Booklists Best
Books for Young Adults 2000
YALSA.
Quick Picks
for
Reluctant Young Adults 2000
YALSA
Popular
Paperbacks for Young Adults 2000
2000
YALSA Teens' Choice for Top 10 Books
Best Sellers Lists
Amazon
Book Company. Children's and Teens Best Sellers
Barnes
& Noble. Teens Top 10 Sellers
Barnes
& Noble. Kids Top 10 Sellers
Publisher's
Weekly Children's Best Sellers List
State & Other Book
Awards
Children's
Choice Awards
Children's
Literature Guide
Jane
Addams Book Award
Award to works
fostering a better
understanding of the people of the world toward the end that wars
may be avoided.
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