Award Winning Books

There are many awards given for excellence in the children's book world. Here are just a few titles that have won some of these awards.
Please note that many of the books published in the UK are available in the USA and vice versa.

More Award Winning Titles

A 1997 Caldecott Award Honor Book The Gardener

The 1997 Newbery Medal Winner The view from Saturday

The 1969 Caldecott Winner Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

A 1958 Caldecott Honor Book Anatole and the cat

A 2009 Caldecott Honor Book A river of words: the story of William Carlos Williams

The 2009 Golden Kite Honor Picture Book (Text) Before John was a jazz giant: A song of John Coltrane

A 2009 Newbery Honor Book Savvy

The 1994 Caldecott Medal Winner Grandfather’s Journey

A 2009 Golden Kite Picture Book Award (Text) A Visitor for Bear

A 2008 Caldecott Honor Book Henry’s Freedom Box

A 1957 Caldecott Honor Book Anatole

The 1948 Newbery Medal Winner Book The Twenty-one balloons

A 1966 Caldecott Honor Book Alphabet City

The 1958 Carnegie Medal Winner Tom’s Midnight Garden

A 2001 Caldecott Honor Book Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic sung in the year 1888

The 2006 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

The 2006 Golden Kite Award for Non-Fiction The Adventures of Marco Polo

A 2003 Newbery Honor Book The House of the Scorpion

A 1973 Newbery Honor Book The Upstairs Room

The 1957 Newbery Award Winner Miracles on Maple Hill

The 1981 Newbery Medal Winner Jacob I have Loved

The 2007 Caldecott Medal Winner The Invention of Hugo Cabret

A 2004 Newbery Honor Book Olive’s Ocean

A 2006 Newbery Honor Book Princess Academy

A 2006 Caldecott Honor Book Rosa

The 2007 Boston Horn-Book Award For Non-Fiction The Strongest Man in the World: Louis Cyr

A 2006 Caldecott Honor Book Zen Shorts

A 1998 Newbery Honor Book Lily’s Crossing

A 2000 Newbery Honor Book 26 Fairmount Avenue

A 2007 Newbery Honor Book Hattie Big Sky

The 2007 Caldcott Medal Winner Flotsam

The 1978 Newbery Medal Winner Bridge to Terabithia

A 2007 Newbery Honor Book Penny From Heaven

The 1996 Newbery Award Winner The Midwife’s Apprentice

A 2005 E. B. White Read Aloud Award Winner Wild About Books

A 2003 Newbery Honor Book An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

The 1986 Newbery Award Winner Sarah Plain and Tall

The 2003 Non-Fiction Golden Kite Award Winner Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer

The 1995 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction Winner Under the Blood-Red Sun

The 1988 Caldecott Award Winner Owl Moon

A 1996 Newbery Honor Book The Great Fire

The 1942 Carnegie Award Winner The Little Grey Men

The 2004 Picture Book Golden Kite Award Winner Apples to Oregon

The 2003 Caldecott Award Winner My Friend Rabbit

A 1994 Caldecott Honor Book Owen

A 2005 Newbery Honor Book Al Capone Does my Shirts

A 1999 Newbery Honor Book A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories

A 2001 Caldecott Honor Book Casey at the bat: A Ballad of the Republic sung in the year 1888

The 2003 Newbery Award Winner Crispin: The Cross of Lead

The 1998 Kate Greenaway Medal Winner When Jessie Came Across the Sea

A 1986 Caldecott Honor Book The Relatives Came

The 1992 Caldecott Medal Winner Tuesday

A 2002 Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book Little Rat Sets Sail

The 2000 Book Sense Best Children’s Book Of The Year The Quilt Makers Gift

The 2004 Kate Greenaway Medal Winner Ella’s big Chance

A 2003 Caldecott Honor Book Hondo and Fabian

The 2001 Kate Greenaway Medal Winner Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter

A 1997 Caldecott Honor Book Belle Prater’s Boy

The 1980 Kate Greenaway Medal Winner Mister Magnolia

A 2004 Golden Kite Award Winner Dust to Eat: Drought and Depression In the 1930’s

The 2003 Boston Globe-Horn Book Non-fiction Award Winner Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of The John J. Harvey

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