Other Award Winners

Week of January 29, 2012—And the Winner Is

Thursday, February 2, 2012—Other Award Winners

I have to admit that when I was stalking the ALA website to see who would be named Caldecott winners, I stumbled on some picture book awards I didn’t even know existed. That sent me on a journey to hunt out new books (or books new to me). I hope you find some treasures here, too.

Mildred L. Batchelder Award

The Mildred L. Batchelder Award is given for an outstanding children's book translated from a foreign language and subsequently published in the United States:

Soldier Bear

Written by Bibi Dumon Tak

Illustrated by Philip Hopman

Translated by Laura Watkinson

© 2011

Originally published in Dutch in 2008 as Soldaat Wojtek

Published by Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Pura Belpré Awards

This award honors a Latino writer and illustrator whose children's books best portray, affirm, and celebrate the Latino cultural experience:

Pura Belpré Illustrator Award

Diego Rivera: His World and Ours

Written and illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh

© 2011

Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS.

Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor Books

The Cazuela that the Farm Maiden Stirred

Written by Samantha R. Vamos

Illustrated by Rafael López

© 2011

Charlesbridge

Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match /Marisol McDonald no combina

Written by Monica Brown

Illustrated by Sara Palacios

© 2011

Children’s Book Press, an imprint of Lee and Low Books Inc.

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award

Balloons over Broadway:  The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade

Written and illustrated by Melissa Sweet

© 2011

Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.