Children’s and Young Adult Literature

The awards were established as a way to identify and honor the very best writing and illustrations by and about American Indians.

This award honors and recognizes individual work about Asian/Pacific Americans and their heritage, based on literary and artistic merit.

This award honors the most distinguished social science books appropriate for young readers that depict ethnicity in the United States.

Annual award to outstanding African-American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values.

Recognizes authors, illustrators, and publishers of high quality fictional and biographical children, intermediate, and young adult books that appropriately portray individuals with developmental disabilities.

The award is given annually for the best quality book of Jewish content in the field of children's literature.

The award is presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.

The first and most enduring award for GLBT books is sponsored by the American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table.

The award recognizes and honor authors and illustrators that create quality children’s literature depicting the Mexican American experience.

This resource guide was created from the #1000blackgirlbooks campaign led by Marley Dias who has now collected over 4000 books. The guide includes some of those books that have been catalogued into an easy to find database. This information here is appropriate for youth, parents, educators, schools, and libraries.

Created and maintained by Lisa R. Bartle, this site allows you to search for citations to scholarly articles about children's literature. Bartle also provides annotations.

This bibliography was created by graduate students in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The list is consistently updated and arranged by a variety of subjects.

American Library Association's main site for the Caldecott Medal, the premier award for children's book artists.

Created to help teachers and librarians, this database allows you to search by keywords, topics, and skills to find books that complement your classroom curriculum.

Created by a librarian, this site allows you to search by such things as suggested age of reader, gender of protagonist, and format, to see only award-winning books. Books are annotated by the creator, Lisa R. Bartle.

This page, created by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, contains a variety of resources published in the 1990's.

The American Library Association's main site for the Newbery Medal, the premier award for children's book authors.

Texas Library Association's main site for the Texas Bluebonnet Award.

San Antonio Public Library's Kids' Page, with links to other Web sites about authors and books.