Children’s Literature Awards

Following established annual Children’s Literature awards is a good way to decide which books to pick when purchasing new stock for your school library, or which new books to buy for your children.

Leading UK and international Children’s Literature awards

• The New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards
• The Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals
• The Newbery Medal
• The Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize
• The National Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year
• FCBG Children’s Book Award
• CBI Children’s Book of the Year Award
• The Charlotte Zolotow Award 
• The Cybils – Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers Literary Awards
• The Burgess Awards
• Hans Christian Andersen Awards
• The National Book Awards (National Book Foundation)
• The Parent’s Choice Awards
• The Children’s Literature Association Phoenix Award
• The SIBA Children’s Book Award
• The Sydney Taylor Book Award
• The Golden Baobab African Children’s Literature Award
• The Costa Children’s Book Award
• Blue Peter Book Award
• The Waterstones Children’s Laureate
• The Roald Dahl Funny Prize

It’s also worth looking at these award lists:

• The Andre Norton Award for YA Science Fiction
• NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature
• The E.B. White Read Aloud Awards
• Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal
• YRCA [Young Reader’s Choice Awards]
• The Golden Kite Awards
• Jane Addams Children’s Book Award
• Notable Books for Children, by ALSC.
• Alex Awards
• Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award Website
• Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards
• California Young Reader Medal
• Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award
• Massachusetts Children’s Book Award
• Australian Children’s Laureate
• Aurealis Awards
• Dromkeen Medal
• Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards
• Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation
• Ann Connor Brimer Book Award
• Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award
• CBI Book of the Year Awards