Thursday, February 2, 2012

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.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oooh! I really want to read Balloons Over Broadway!

Yanting Gueh said...

Read Balloons Over Broadway last year and was enraptured. Thanks for sharing the other books, too. Would love to check them out soon.