Book Awards
John and Patricia Beatty Award
This award is given to an author of a children’s or young adult book that best promotes an awareness of California and its people.
California Young Reader Medal
Children and teens vote for their favorite books in five categories.
Children's Literature Council of Southern California
Awards are given to outstanding books by Southern California authors, illustrators, poets, and contributors.
Caldecott Medal
Artist of the best children’s picture book each year.
Newbery Medal
Author of the best children’s literature book each year.
Coretta Scott King Award
Awarded to African American authors and illustrators for best promoting an understanding and appreciation of the cultures of all people.
Laura Ingalls Wilder Award
Author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.
Andrew Carnegie Medal
Producer of the most outstanding video production for children released during the previous year.
Mildred Batchelder Award
Awarded to an 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
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
Author (including co-authors and author-illustrators) of the most distinguished informational book published during the preceding year.
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award
Author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished contribution to beginning reader books published in the U.S. during the preceding year.