This Topic I am going to reserve for book awards. I am going to list them all in here under headings obviously, but this topic will be for reference so I will close it.

You may of course talk about them separately in other topics but just so that this topic doesn't get swamped and the award lists don't become lost I will keep this one locked.

United States of America

The John Newbery Medal

The Newbery Medal was first offered in 1921 by Fredric G. Melcher as an incentive for better quality in children's books. Named after John Newbery, the famous 18th-century publisher and seller of children's books, it is now donated annually by the Melcher family and awarded by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association. It is awarded to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children published during the preceding year.

2009 The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins Children's Books)
2008 Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick)
2007 The Higher Power of Lucky, Susan Patron, illus. Matt Phelan (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson)
2006 Criss Cross, Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins)
2005 Kira-Kira, Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/S&S)
2004 The Tale of Despereaux, Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick)
2003 Crispin: The Cross of Lead, Avi (Hyperion Books for Children)
2002 A Single Shard, Linda Sue Park (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)
2001 A Year Down Yonder, Richard Peck (Dial Books for Young Readers)
2000 Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte Press)
1999 Holes, Louis Sachar (Frances Foster/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
1998 Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse (Scholastic)
1997 The View from Saturday, E.L. Konigsburg (Jean Karl/Atheneum)
1996 The Midwife's Apprentice, Karen Cushman (Clarion)
1995 Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech (HarperCollins)
1994 The Giver, Lois Lowry (Houghton Mifflin)
1993 Missing May, Cynthia Rylant (Jackson/Orchard)
1992 Shiloh, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum)
1991 Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli (Little, Brown & Co.)
1990 Number the Stars, Lois Lowry (Houghton Mifflin)
1989 Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, Paul Fleischman (Harper & Row Junior Books)
1988 Lincoln: A Photobiography, Russell Freedman (Houghton Mifflin)
1987 The Whipping Boy, Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow Books)
1986 Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan (Harper & Row Junior Books)
1985 The Hero and the Crown, Robin McKinley (Greenwillow Books)
1984 Dear Mr. Henshaw, Beverly Cleary (William Morrow & Co.)
1983 Dicey's Song, Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum/Macmillan)
1982 A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers, Nancy Willard (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
1981 Jacob Have I Loved, Katherine Paterson (Crowell/Harper & Row Junior Books)
1980 A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32, Joan W. Blos (Scribner/Macmillan)
1979 The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin (E.P. Dutton)
1978 Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson (Crowell/Harper & Row Junior Books)
1977 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred Taylor (Dial Books for Young Readers)
1976 The Grey King, Susan Cooper (McElderry/Macmillan)
1975 M.C. Higgins the Great, Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)
1974 The Slave Dancer, Paula Fox (Bradbury Press)
1973 Julie of the Wolves, Jean C. George (Trophy/Harper & Row Junior Books)
1972 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert C. O'Brien (Atheneum/Macmillan)
1971 Summer of the Swans, Betsy C. Byars (Viking Penguin)
1970 Sounder, William Armstrong (Harper & Row)
1969 The High King, Lloyd Alexander (Henry Holt & Co.)
1968 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg (Atheneum/Macmillan)
1967 Up a Road Slowly, Irene Hunt (Berkley)
1966 I, Juan de Pareja, Elizabeth B. de Trevi¤o (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
1965 Shadow of a Bull, Maia Wojciechowska (Atheneum/Macmillan)
1964 It's Like This, Cat, Emily C. Neville (Harper & Row Junior Books)
1963 A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
1962 The Bronze Bow, Elizabeth G. Speare (Houghton Mifflin)
1961 Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell (Houghton Mifflin)
1960 Onion John, Joseph Krumgold (Crowell/Harper & Row Junior Books)
1959 The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth G. Speare (Houghton Mifflin)
1958 Rifles for Watie, Harold Keith (Crowell/Harper & Row Junior Books)
1957 Miracles on Maple Hill, Virginia Sorensen (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
1956 Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Jean L. Latham (Houghton Mifflin)
1955 The Wheel on the School, Meindert De Jong (Trophy/Harper & Row Junior Books)
1954 And Now Miguel, Joseph Krumgold (Crowell/Harper & Row Junior Books)
1953 Secret of the Andes, Ann N. Clark (Viking Penguin)
1952 Ginger Pye, Eleanor Estes (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
1951 Amos Fortune, Free Man, Elizabeth Yates (E.P. Dutton)
1950 The Door in the Wall: Story of Medieval London, Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)
1949 King of the Wind, Marguerite Henry (Checkerboard/Macmillan)
1948 The Twenty-One Balloons, William Pene du Bois (Viking Penguin)
1947 Miss Hickory, Carolyn S. Bailey (Viking Penguin)
1946 Strawberry Girl, Lois Lenski (Lippincott/Harper & Row Junior Books)
1945 Rabbit Hill, Robert Lawson (Viking Penguin)
1944 Johnny Tremain, Ester Forbes (Houghton Mifflin)
1943 Adam of the Road, Elizabeth J. Gray (Viking Penguin)
1942 The Matchlock Gun, Walter D. Edmonds (Putnam)
1941 Call It Courage, Armstrong Sperry (Macmillan)
1940 Daniel Boone, James Daugherty (Viking)
1939 Thimble Summer, Elizabeth Enright (Henry Holt & Co.)
1938 The White Stag, Kate Seredy (Viking Penguin)
1937 Roller Skates, Ruth Sawyer (Penguin)
1936 Caddie Woodlawn, Carol R. Brink (Aladdin/Macmillan)
1935 Dobry, Monica Shannon (Viking)
1934 Invincible Louisa, Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown & Co.)
1933 Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, Elizabeth F. Lewis (Henry Holt & Co.)
1932 Waterless Mountain, Laura A. Armer (Random/McKay)
1931 The Cat Who Went to Heaven, Elizabeth Coatsworth (Aladdin/Macmillan)
1930 Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, Rachel Field (Macmillan)
1929 The Trumpeter of Krakow, Eric P. Kelly (Aladdin/Macmillan)
1928 Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon, Dhan G. Mukerji (E.P. Dutton)
1927 Smoky, the Cow Horse, Will James (Charles Scribner's Sons)
1926 Shen of the Sea, Arthur B. Chrisman (E.P. Dutton)
1925 Tales from Silver Lands, Charles J. Finger (Doubleday)
1924 The Dark Frigate, Charles B. Hawes (Little, Brown & Co.)
1923 The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, Hugh Lofting (Delacorte Press)
1922 The Story of Mankind, Hendrik W. Van Loon (Liveright)

United States of America

Young Adult Library Service Association

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), established in 1957, is a division of the American Library Association. The mission of YALSA is to advocate, promote and strengthen service to young adults as part of the continuum of total library service, and to support those who provide service to this population. YALSA administers several awards and sponsors a biennial Young Adult Literature Symposium, Teen Read Week, the third week of each October, and Teen Tech Week, the second week of each March.

The Awards

* The Alex Awards were named for twentieth-century American librarian Margaret "Alex" Edwards. They are awarded annually to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults. In the past 12 years (1998-2009) 120 books have been honored with the award.

* The Edwards Award was named for twentieth-century American librarian Margaret A. Edwards. It is awarded annually to an author and a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature. In the past 22 years (1988-2009), 21 authors have been honored with the award.

* The Morris Award was named for twentieth century American publisher William C. Morris It is awarded annually to a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature. In the past year (2009), one book has been honored with the award. In addition, four books were announced as finalists.

* The Odyssey Award was named in honor of the Homer's eighth century BC epic poem to remind us of the ancient roots of storytelling, while living in our modern world. The Odyssey Award is jointly given and administered by YALSA and the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), another division of the ALA. It is sponsored by Booklist magazine, a publication of the ALA. In the past 2 years (2008-2009), 2 titles have been honored with the award. In addition, as runners-up, 10 titles have been cited as Odyssey Honor boods.

* The Printz Award was named for twentieth-century American librarian Michael L. Printz. It is sponsored by Booklist magazine, a publication of the ALA. It is awarded annually to the book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature.In the past 10 years (2000-2009), 10 books have been honored with the award. In addition, as runners up, 37 books have received the Printz honor.

* ALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults — the first winner will be named in 2010.

United Kingdom

The Carnegie Medal

The Carnegie Medal is awarded annually to the writer of an outstanding book for children.

It was established by in 1936, in memory of the great Scottish-born philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919). Carnegie was a self-made industrialist who made his fortune in steel in the USA. His experience of using a library as a child led him to resolve that "if ever wealth came to me that it should be used to establish free libraries."

Carnegie set up more than 2800 libraries across the English speaking world and, by the time of his death, over half the library authorities in Great Britain had Carnegie libraries.

First awarded to Arthur Ransome for ‘Pigeon Post’, the winner receives a golden medal and £500 worth of books to donate to a library of their choice.

The medal is awarded by CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.


Note: Since 2007 the year relates to when the medal was awarded. Previously the year refers to the publication date of the books.

* 2009 Siobhan Dowd, Bog Child
* 2008 Philip Reeve, Here Lies Arthur
* 2007 Meg Rosoff, Just in Case
* 2005 Mal Peet, Tamar
* 2004 Frank Cottrell Boyce, Millions
* 2003 Jennifer Donnelly, A Gathering Light, Bloomsbury
* 2002 Sharon Creech, Ruby Holler, Bloomsbury
* 2001 Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, Doubleday
* 2000 Beverley Naidoo, The Other Side of Truth, Puffin
* 1999 Aidan Chambers, Postcards from No Man's Land, Bodley Head Children's Books
* 1998 David Almond, Skellig, Hodder
* 1997 Tim Bowler, River Boy, OUP
* 1996 Melvin Burgess, Junk, Andersen Press
* 1995 Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials: Book 1 Northern Lights, Scholastic
* 1994 Theresa Breslin, Whispers in the Graveyard, Methuen
* 1993 Robert Swindells, Stone Cold, H Hamilton
* 1992 Anne Fine, Flour Babies, H Hamilton
* 1991 Berlie Doherty, Dear Nobody, H Hamilton
* 1990 Gillian Cross, Wolf, OUP
* 1989 Anne Fine, Goggle-Eyes, H Hamilton
* 1988 Geraldine McCaughrean, A Pack of Lies, OUP
* 1987 Susan Price, The Ghost Drum, Faber
* 1986 Berlie Doherty, Granny Was a Buffer Girl, Methuen
* 1985 Kevin Crossley-Holland, Storm, Heinemann
* 1984 Margaret Mahy, The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance, Dent
* 1983 Jan Mark, Handles, Kestrel
* 1982 Margaret Mahy, The Haunting, Dent
* 1981 Robert Westall, The Scarecrows, Chatto & Windus
* 1980 Peter Dickinson, City of Gold, Gollancz
* 1979 Peter Dickinson, Tulku, Gollancz
* 1978 David Rees, The Exeter Blitz, H Hamilton
* 1977 Gene Kemp, The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler, Faber
* 1976 Jan Mark, Thunder and Lightnings, Kestrel
* 1975 Robert Westall, The Machine Gunners, Macmillan
* 1974 Mollie Hunter, The Stronghold, H Hamilton
* 1973 Penelope Lively, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, Heinemann
* 1972 Richard Adams, Watership Down, Rex Collings
* 1971 Ivan Southall, Josh, Angus & Robertson
* 1970 Leon Garfield & Edward Blishen, illustrated by Charles Keeping, The God Beneath the Sea, Longman
* 1969 K. M. Peyton, The Edge of the Cloud, OUP
* 1968 Rosemary Harris, The Moon in the Cloud, Faber
* 1967 Alan Garner, The Owl Service, Collins
* 1966 Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
* 1965 Philip Turner, The Grange at High Force, OUP
* 1964 Sheena Porter, Nordy Bank, OUP
* 1963 Hester Burton, Time of Trial, OUP
* 1962 Pauline Clarke, The Twelve and the Genii, Faber
* 1961 Lucy M. Boston, A Stranger at Green Knowe, Faber
* 1960 Dr Ian Wolfram Cornwall, The Making of Man, Phoenix House
* 1959 Rosemary Sutcliff, The Lantern Bearers, OUP
* 1958 Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden, OUP
* 1957 William Mayne, A Grass Rope, OUP
* 1956 C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle, Bodley Head
* 1955 Eleanor Farjeon, The Little Bookroom, OUP
* 1954 Ronald Welch, Knight Crusader, OUP
* 1953 Edward Osmond, A Valley Grows Up
* 1952 Mary Norton, The Borrowers, Dent
* 1951 Cynthia Harnett, The Wool-Pack, Methuen
* 1950 Elfrida Vipont, The Lark on the Wing, OUP
* 1949 Agnes Allen, The Story of Your Home, Faber
* 1948 Richard Armstrong, Sea Change, Dent
* 1947 Walter de la Mare, Collected Stories for Children
* 1946 Elizabeth Goudge, The Little White Horse, University of London Press
* 1945 Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
* 1944 Eric Linklater, The Wind on the Moon, Macmillan
* 1943 Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
* 1942 'B.B.', The Little Grey Men, Eyre & Spottiswoode
* 1941 Mary Treadgold, We Couldn't Leave Dinah, Cape
* 1940 Kitty Barne, Visitors from London, Dent
* 1939 Eleanor Doorly, The Radium Woman, Heinemann
* 1938 Noel Streatfeild, The Circus is Coming, Dent
* 1937 Eve Garnett, The Family from One End Street, Muller
* 1936 Arthur Ransome, Pigeon Post, Cape

United Kingdom

Guardian Children's Fiction Award

The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize or Guardian Award is a prominent award for works of children's literature by British or Commonwealth authors, published in the UK during the preceding year. The award has been given annually since 1967, and is decided by a panel of authors and the review editor for The Guardian's children's books section. It may be compared with the American Newbery Medal.


* 2008 Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go (Walker Books)
* 2007 Jenny Valentine, Finding Violet Park (HarperCollins)
* 2006 Philip Reeve, A Darkling Plain (Scholastic)
* 2005 Kate Thompson, The New Policeman (Bodley Head)
* 2004 Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now (Puffin)
* 2003 Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (David Fickling)
* 2002 Sonya Hartnett, Thursday's Child (Walker)
* 2001 Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Seeing Stone (Orion)
* 2000 Jacqueline Wilson, The Illustrated Mum (Transworld)
* 1999 Susan Price, The Sterkarm Handshake (Scholastic)
* 1998 Henrietta Branford, Fire, Bed and Bone (Walker)
* 1997 Melvin Burgess, Junk (Penguin)
* 1996 Joint Winners:
o Philip Pullman, Northern Lights (Scholastic; published in North America as The Golden Compass)
o Alison Prince, The Sherwood Hero (Macmillan)
* 1995 Lesley Howarth, MapHead (Walker Books)
* 1994 Sylvia Waugh, The Mennyms (Julia MacRae)
* 1993 William Mayne, Low Tide (Cape)
* 1992 Joint Winners:
o Rachel Anderson, Paper Faces (Oxford University Press)
o Hilary McKay, The Exiles (Gollancz)
* 1991 Robert Westall, The Kingdom by the Sea (Methuen)
* 1990 Anne Fine, Goggle-Eyes (Hamish Hamilton)
* 1989 Geraldine McCaughrean, A Pack of Lies (Oxford University Press)
* 1988 Ruth Thomas, The Runaways (Hutchinson)
* 1987 James Aldridge, The True Story of Spit MacPhee (Viking Kestrel)
* 1986 Ann Pilling, Henry's Leg (Viking Kestrel)
* 1985 Ted Hughes, What is the Truth (Faber)
* 1984 Dick King-Smith, The Sheep-Pig (Gollancz) (this book served as the basis for the movie Babe)
* 1983 Anita Desai, Village by the Sea (Heinemann)
* 1982 Michelle Magorian, Goodnight Mr Tom (Kestrel)
* 1981 Peter Carter, The Sentinels (Oxford University Press)
* 1980 Ann Schlee, The Vandal (Macmillan)
* 1979 Andrew Davies, Conrad's War (Blackie)
* 1978 Diana Wynne Jones, Charmed Life (Macmillan)
* 1977 Peter Dickinson, The Blue Hawk (Gollancz)
* 1976 Nina Bawden, The Peppermint Pig (Gollancz)
* 1975 Winifred Cawley, Gran at Coalgate (Oxford University Press)
* 1974 Barbara Willard, The Iron Lily (Longman Young Books)
* 1973 Richard Adams, Watership Down (Rex Collings)
* 1972 Gillian Avery, A Likely Lad (Collins)
* 1971 John Christopher, The Guardians (Hamilton)
* 1970 K. M. Peyton, Flambards (Oxford University Press)
* 1969 Joan Aiken, The Whispering Mountain (Cape)
* 1968 Alan Garner, The Owl Service (Collins)
* 1967 Leon Garfield, Devil-in-the-Fog (Constable)

United States of America

The National Book Award - The National Book Awards are among the most eminent literary prizes in the United States. Started in 1950, the awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the prior year, as well as lifetime achievement awards including the "Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters" and the "Literarian Award". The purpose of the awards is "to celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of good writing in America." In 1988 the National Book Foundation was established which now oversees and manages the National Book Awards.

Awards are given in each of four categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people's literature. Awards have been given in various other categories, which have since been retired or subsumed into the remaining categories.

The winners are selected in each category by an independent, expert and volunteer five-member judging panel. Panels typically look at and read hundreds of books in each category. A chair from each panel announces the runners-up and winner during the "The National Book Awards Ceremony and Dinner" held each year in November. The winners each receive a $10,000 cash prize and a bronze sculpture; finalists each receive $1,000, a medal, and a citation from the panel jury.

Recent winners in the Young Adult Literature category are:

2008 - Judy Blundell, What I Saw And How I Lied
2007 - Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
2006 - M.T. Anderson, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation The Pox Party
2005 - Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
2004 - Pete Hautman, Godless
2003 - Polly Horvath, The Canning Season
2002 - Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion
2001 - Virginia Euwer Wolff, True Believer
2000 - Gloria Whelan, Homeless Bird
1999 - Kimberly Willis Holt, When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
1998 - Louis Sachar, Holes
1997 - Han Nolan, Dancing on the Edge
1996 - Victor Martinez, Parrot in the Oven

United States of America

The Coretta Scott King Award - This is an annual award presented by the Ethnic & Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table, part of the American Library Association (ALA). Named for Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King, Jr., this award recognizes outstanding African American authors and illustrators. The book must be about the African American experience, and be written for a youth audience (high school or below).

The winners of this award are:

2009 - Kadir Nelson, We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
2008 - Christopher Paul Curtis, Elijah Of Buxton
2007 - Sharon Draper, Copper Sun
2006 - Julius Lester, Day of Tears
2005 - Toni Morrison, Remember: The Journey to School Integration
2004 - Angela Johnson, The First Part Last
2003 - Nikki Grimes, Bronx Masquerade
2002 - Mildred Taylor, The Land
2001 - Jacqueline Woodson, Miracle's Boys
2000 - Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy
1999 - Angela Johnson, Heaven
1998 - Sharon Draper, Forged By Fire
1997 - Walter Dean Myers, Slam
1996 - Virginia Hamilton, Her Stories: African American folktales, fairy tales, and true tales
1995 - Patricia C. and Fred L. McKissack, Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters
1994 - Angela Johnson, Toning the Sweep
1993 - Patricia C. McKissack, Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
1992 - Walter Dean Myers, Now is Your Time: the African American Struggle for Freedom
1991 - Mildred Taylor, The Road to Memphis
1990 - Patricia C. and Fred L. McKissack, A Long Hard Journey: the Story of the Pullman Porter
1989 - Walter Dean Myers, Fallen Angels
1988 - Mildred Taylor, The Friendship
1987 - Mildred Pitts Walter, Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World
1986 - Virginia Hamilton, The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
1985 - Walter Dean Myers, Motown and Didi: a love story
1984 - Lucille Clifton, Everett Anderson’s Good-bye
1983 - Virginia Hamilton, Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
1982 - Mildred Taylor, Let the Circle Be Unbroken
1981 - Sidney Poitier, This Life
1980 - Walter Dean Myers, The Young Landlords
1979 - Ossie Davis, Escape to Freedom
1978 - Eloise Greenfield, Africa Dream
1977 - James Haskins, The Story of Stevie Wonder
1976 - Pearl Bailey, Duey's Tale
1975 - Dorothy Robinson, The Legend of Africania
1974 - Sharon Bell Mathis, Ray Charles
1973 - Alfred Duckett, I Never Had It Made: the Autobiography of Jackie Robinson, as told to Alfred Duckett
1972 - Eton C. Fax, 17 Black Artists
1971 - Charlemae Rollins, Black Troubador: Langston Hughes
1970 - Lillie Patterson, Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace

Australian

The Children's Book Council of Australia

The Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers has been presented annually since 1946 by the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA). Note: from 1946 to 1986 this award was known as "Book of the Year".

The Award "will be made to outstanding books of fiction, drama, or poetry which require of the reader a degree of maturity to appreciate the topics, themes and scope of emotional involvement. Generally, books in this category will be appropriate in style and content for readers in their secondary years of schooling."

List of Winners