School Library System: Book Awards

The 3 Apples book award is sponsored by the New York Library Association, Section of School Librarians and Youth Services Section.

The award is sponsored by the Margaret A. Edwards Trust. Edwards pioneered young adult library services and worked for many years at the Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore.

This award honors Mildred L. Batchelder, a former executive director of the Association for Library Service to Children.

Established in 1996, this award is named after Pura Belpré, the first Latina librarian at the New York Public Library.

It was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott and is awarded by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association.

The award was known as the Wilder Medal between 1960 and 2017. The name was changed to the Children's Literature Legacy Award in 2018.

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.

The annual award is administered by YALSA and sponsored by School Library Journal magazine.

Since 2012, the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection has co-presented the award at the Children’s Book Festival, held in April at the University of Southern Mississippi, in Hattiesburg. To be eligible, writers and illustrators must have had no more than three books previously published.

First given in 2009, the winner is announced annually at the ALA Youth Media Awards, with a shortlist of up to five titles named the first week of December.

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.

The winner is announced annually at the ALA Youth Media Awards, with a shortlist of up to five titles named the first week of December.

It is named for a Topeka, Kansas school librarian who was a long-time active member of the Young Adult Library Services Association. The award is sponsored by Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association.

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.