California Awards

John and Patricia Beatty Award
http://www.cla-net.org/awards/beatty.php
Author of a children’s or young adult book that best promotes an awareness of California and its people.

California Young Reader Medal
http://www.cla-net.org/awards/cyrm.php
Authors and illustrators of best books voted on by California’s young readers.

Children’s Literature Council of Southern California
http://www.childrensliteraturecouncil.org/awards.htm
Southern California authors, illustrators, poets, or contributors of excellence to the field of Children's Literature.

National Awards

Caldecott Medal
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/caldecottmedal/caldecottmedal.htm
Artist of the best children’s picture book each year.

Newbery Medal
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/newberymedal/newberymedal.htm
Author of the best children’s literature book each year.

Laura Ingalls Wilder Award
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/wildermedal/wildermedal.htm
Author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.

Andrew Carnegie Medal
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/carnegiemedal/carnegiemedal.htm
Producer of the most outstanding video production for children released during the previous year.

Mildred Batchelder Award
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/batchelderaward/batchelderaward.htm
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.

Pura Belpré Award
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/belpremedal/belprmedal.htm
Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose works best portray, affirm, and celebrate the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.

Robert Siebert Informational Book Medal
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/sibertmedal/Sibert_Medal.htm
Author (including co-authors and author-illustrators) of the most distinguished informational book published during the preceding year.

Theodor Seuss Geisel Award
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/drseussaward/DrSeussAward.htm
Author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished contribution to the body of American children’s literature known as beginning reader books published in the U.S. during the preceding year.