Book Awards

Caldecott Medal

The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.

Note: To retrieve results of Caldecott Award Winners and Honor books in the library's collection, enter: 'su: Caldecott Medal books' in the Discovery search box, then filter by Trevecca holdings and by Fiction titles. 

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The Caldecott Medal is presented annually to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. It is awarded by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association. The Award is restricted to artists who are citizens or residents of the United States. The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott.  Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886) is often called the “father of the picture book."

• The award was first given in 1938 to Dorothy P. Lathrop for Animals of the Bible, with text selected by Helen Dean Fish from the King James Bible.  We have the 1968 edition. You can see the award-winning black and white illustrations!
• Two artists have won the medal three times: Marcia Brown (1955-Cinderella, or, the Little Glass Slipper, 1962-Once a Mouse, 1983-Shadow) and David Wiesner (1992-Tuesday, 2002-The Three Pigs, 2007-Flotsam).
• Six artists have won the medal two times: Barbara Cooney, Leo and Diane Dillon, Nonny Hogrogian, Robert McCloskey, Chris Raschka, and Chris Van Allsburg.
• Five married couples have won the award together: Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire, Leo and Diane Dillon, Berta and Elmer Hader, Maud and Miska Petersham, and Alice and Martin Provensen.
• Maurice Sendak won the award in 1964 for Where the Wild Things Are and has the most honor books (7).
• Dr. Seuss has never won the Caldecott. He has three honor titles: 1948 (McElligot’s Pool), 1950 (Bartholomew and the Oobleck), and 1951 (If I Ran the Zoo).

Coretta Scott King Award

The Coretta Scott King Book Award is given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books forchildren and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values. The award commemorates the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and honors his wife, Mrs. Coretta Scott King, for her courage and determination to continue the work for peace and world brotherhood.

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Mildred L. Batchelder Award

The Batchelder Award is given to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a language other than English in a country other than the United States, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States.

Newbery Medal

The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

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Pura Belpré Award

The award is named after Pura Belpré, the first Latina librarian at the New York Public Library. The Pura Belpré Award, established in 1996, is presented annually to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.

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Sibert Informational Book Medal

The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal is awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in the United States in English during the preceding year. The award is named in honor of Robert F. Sibert, the long-time President of Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc. of Jacksonville, Illinois. ALSC administers the award.

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[Theodor Seuss] Geisel Award

The Geisel Award is given annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers published in English in the United States during the preceding year. Named for author Theodor S. Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss!

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The Education Learning Commons (ELC)

Located on the ground floor of Waggoner Library, the ELC collection includes children's books, Big Books, Award winners, picture books, and multicultural books.

All ELC books are discoverable using the library Discovery Search.