The Mildred L. Batchelder Award, also known as the Batchelder Award, is an award

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 granted annually by the Association for Library Service to Children

Association for Library Service to Children

The Association for Library Service to Children is a division of the American Library Association. Its members are concerned with the profession of children's Librarianship...

 (ALSC) a division of the American Library Association

American Library Association

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 (ALA). The award is named in honor of Mildred L. Batchelder

Mildred L. Batchelder

Mildred L. Batchelder was named in “100 of the most important leaders we had in the 20th century” by American Libraries in December 1999...

, former director of the ALSC. One of her stated goals was "to eliminate barriers to understanding between people of different cultures, races, nations, and languages."

The award is unusual in that it is awarded to a publisher, yet specifies a single work. It seeks to recognize translations of children's books into the English language, with the intention of encouraging American publishers to translate high quality foreign language children's books and "promote communication between the people of the world".

The Batchelder Award was established in 1966 and has been given annually since 1979.

Mildred L. Batchelder

Batchelder

Mildred L. Batchelder

Mildred L. Batchelder was named in “100 of the most important leaders we had in the 20th century” by American Libraries in December 1999...

 began her career working in an Omaha, Nebraska Public Library

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, then as a children's librarian at St. Cloud State Teachers College, and subsequently as librarian of Haven Elementary School in Evanston

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, IL. She eventually joined the ranks of the American Library Association

American Library Association

The American Library Association is a non-profit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with more than 62,000 members....

 in 1936 spending the next 30 years at the ALA

American Library Association

The American Library Association is a non-profit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with more than 62,000 members....

 promoting the translation of children's literature.

Criteria

• The award shall be made to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country and subsequently published in English in the United States during the preceding year.
• The Award, in the form of a citation, shall be made annually, unless no book of that particular year is deemed worthy of the honor. The translation should be true to original work and retain the viewpoint of the author.
• The translation should reflect the style of the author and of the original language.
• The book should not be unduly "Americanized." The book's reader should be able to sense that the book came from another country.
• Folk literature is not eligible.
• Picture books are not eligible unless the text is substantial and at least as important as the pictures.
• The book must have the potential to appeal to a child audience (age 0-14).
• The overall design of the book should enhance and not detract from the text, thus making the book more or less effective as a children's book. Such aspects might include: illustration, type face, layout, book jacket, etc.
• Consideration should be given to the retention of the original illustrator's work in the U.S. edition.

Recipients

Year	Publisher	Title	Author	Translator	Original Language	Citation
1968	Alfred A. Knopf Alfred A. Knopf Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York publishing house, founded by Alfred A. Knopf, Sr. in 1915. It was acquired by Random House in 1960 and is now part of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group at Random House. The publishing house is known for its borzoi trademark , which was designed by co-founder...	The Little Man	Erich Kästner Erich Kästner Emil Erich Kästner was a German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known for his humorous, socially astute poetry and children's literature.-Dresden 1899–1919:...	James Kirkup	German	Winner
1969	Charles Scribner's Sons Charles Scribner's Sons Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing a number of American authors including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon...	Don't Take Teddy	Babbis Friis-Baastad	Lise Sømme McKinnon	Norwegian	Winner
1970	Holt, Rinehart & Winston	Wildcat Under Glass	Alki Zei Alki Zei Alki Zei is a Greek novelist and children's author. - Biography :Alki Zei studied in the philosophy school of Athens University, the Drama School of the Athens Odeion, and in the screenwriting department of the Moscow Cinema Institute. From 1954 to 1964 she lived in the Soviet Union as a...	Edward Fenton	Greek	Winner
1971	Pantheon Books Pantheon Books Pantheon Books is an American imprint with editorial independence that is part of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.The current editor-in-chief at Pantheon Books is Dan Frank.-Overview:...	In the Land of Ur, the Discovery of Ancient Mesopotamia	Hans Baumann	Stella Humphries	German	Winner
1972	Holt, Rinehart & Winston	Friedrich Friedrich (novel) Friedrich pronounced "free-drick" is a novel about two boys and their families, one family who were Jewish, and another who is of Christian heritage. They both live and grow together during Hitler's rise to power and reign...	Hans Peter Richter Hans Peter Richter Hans Peter Richter was a German author. Born in Cologne, Germany, went to school in Germany, went to the university of Hannover,and later graduated in 1968. He also spent some of his life in the German army. Richter wrote many books for children and young adults...	Edite Kroll	German	Winner
1973	William Morrow and Company William Morrow and Company William Morrow and Company is an American publishing company founded by William Morrow in 1926. The company was acquired by Scott Foresman in 1967, and sold to Hearst Corporation in 1981. It was sold along to the News Corporation in 1999...	Pulga	S. R. Van Iterson	Alexander & Alison Gode	Dutch	Winner
1974	E. P. Dutton E. P. Dutton E. P. Dutton was an American book publishing company founded as a book retailer in Boston, Massachusetts in 1852 by Edward Payson Dutton. In 1986, the company was acquired by Penguin Group and split into two imprints: Dutton Penguin and Dutton Children's Books.-History:Edward Payson Dutton founded...	Petros' War	Alki Zei Alki Zei Alki Zei is a Greek novelist and children's author. - Biography :Alki Zei studied in the philosophy school of Athens University, the Drama School of the Athens Odeion, and in the screenwriting department of the Moscow Cinema Institute. From 1954 to 1964 she lived in the Soviet Union as a...	Edward Fenton	Greek	Winner
1975	Crown Publishing Group Crown Publishing Group -External links:*...	An Old Tale Carved Out of Stone	A. Linevskii	Maria Polushkin	Russian	Winner
1976	Henry Z. Walck David McKay Publications David McKay Publications was an American book publisher which also published some of the first comic books, including the long-running titles Ace Comics, King Comics, and Magic Comics; as well as collections of such popular comic strips as Blondie, Dick Tracy, and Mandrake the Magician...	The Cat and Mouse Who Shared a House	Ruth Hürlimann	Anthea Bell Anthea Bell Anthea Bell OBE is a British translator who has translated numerous literary works, especially children's literature, from French, German, Danish and Polish to English...	German	Winner
1977	Atheneum Press	The Leopard	Cecil Bødker Cecil Bødker Cecil Bødker is a Danish writer, most famous for the use of the character "Silas" in her books. In 1977, "The Leopard" won The Mildred L...	Gunnar Poulsen	Danish	Winner
1978						none
1979	Harcourt Brace Jovanovich	Rabbit Island	Jörg Steiner	Ann Conrad Lammers	German	Winner
1979	Franklin Watts, Inc	Konrad	Christine Nöstlinger Christine Nöstlinger Christine Nöstlinger is an Austrian writer.By her own admission, Nöstlinger was a wild and angry child. After finishing high school, she wanted to become an artist, and studied graphic arts at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna...	Anthea Bell Anthea Bell Anthea Bell OBE is a British translator who has translated numerous literary works, especially children's literature, from French, German, Danish and Polish to English...	German	Winner
1980	E. P. Dutton E. P. Dutton E. P. Dutton was an American book publishing company founded as a book retailer in Boston, Massachusetts in 1852 by Edward Payson Dutton. In 1986, the company was acquired by Penguin Group and split into two imprints: Dutton Penguin and Dutton Children's Books.-History:Edward Payson Dutton founded...	The Sound of the Dragon's Feet	Alki Zei Alki Zei Alki Zei is a Greek novelist and children's author. - Biography :Alki Zei studied in the philosophy school of Athens University, the Drama School of the Athens Odeion, and in the screenwriting department of the Moscow Cinema Institute. From 1954 to 1964 she lived in the Soviet Union as a...	Edward Fenton	Greek	Winner
1981	William Morrow and Company William Morrow and Company William Morrow and Company is an American publishing company founded by William Morrow in 1926. The company was acquired by Scott Foresman in 1967, and sold to Hearst Corporation in 1981. It was sold along to the News Corporation in 1999...	The Winter When Time Was Frozen	Els Pelgrom	Maryka & Raphael Rudnik Raphael Rudnik Raphael Rudnik was an American poet and literary scout. He was a graduate of Bard College and Columbia University . He published the poetry collections, A Lesson From the Cyclops , In The Heart or Our City , and Frank, 207...	Dutch	Winner
1982	Bradbury Press	The Battle Horse	Harry Kullman	George Blecher & Lone Thygesen Blecher	Swedish	Winner
1983	Lothrop, Lee & Shepard HarperCollins HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...	Hiroshima No Pika	Toshi Maruki	Kurita-Bando Literary Agency	Japanese	Winner
1984	Viking Press Viking Press Viking Press is an American publishing company owned by the Penguin Group, which has owned the company since 1975. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim...	Ronia, the Robber's Daughter	Astrid Lindgren Astrid Lindgren Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren , 14 November 1907 – 28 January 2002) was a Swedish author and screenwriter who is the world's 25th most translated author and has sold roughly 145 million copies worldwide...	Patricia Crampton	Swedish	Winner
1985	Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is an educational and trade publisher in the United States. Headquartered in Boston's Back Bay, it publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers and adults.-History:The company was...	The Island on Bird Street	Uri Orlev Uri Orlev Uri Orlev is an award-winning Israeli children's author and translator of Polish-Jewish origin.-Biography:Uri Orlev, born Jerzy Henryk Orlowski, was born in Warsaw, Poland. He survived the war years in the Warsaw Ghetto and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he was sent to after his...	Hillel Halkin	Hebrew	Winner
1986	Creative Education	Rose Blanche	Christophe Gallaz & Robert Innocenti	Martha Coventry & Richard Craglia	Italian	Winner
1987	Lothrop, Lee & Shepard HarperCollins HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...	No Hero for the Kaiser	Rudolph Frank	Patricia Crampton	German	Winner
1988	McElderry Books Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation, is a publisher founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. It is one of the four largest English-language publishers, alongside Random House, Penguin and HarperCollins...	If You Didn't Have Me	Ulf Nilsson	Lone Thygesen Blecher & George Blecher	Swedish	Winner
1989	Lothrop, Lee & Shepard HarperCollins HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...	Crutches	Peter Härtling Peter Härtling Peter Härtling is a German writer and poet. He is a member of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and he received the Großes Verdienstkreuz for his major contribution to German literature.-Biography:...	Elizabeth D. Crawford	German	Winner
1990	E.P. Dutton	Buster's World Busters verden Busters verden is a Danish children's television series and movie from 1984. Based on a play by Bjarne Reuter, Buster's verden deals with the experiences of young Buster Oregon Mortensen...	Bjarne Reuter Bjarne Reuter Bjarne Reuter is a Danish writer and screenwriter, best known for his books for children and teenagers.Many of his works are set in the fifties and sixties, the time period of his childhood and adolescence. Many also deal with the Copenhagen area, where he was born...	Anthea Bell Anthea Bell Anthea Bell OBE is a British translator who has translated numerous literary works, especially children's literature, from French, German, Danish and Polish to English...	Danish	Winner
1991	E.P. Dutton	A Hand Full of Stars	Rafik Schami Rafik Schami Rafik Schami is a Syrian-German author, storyteller and critic.-Biography:Born in Damascus, Syria in 1946, Schami is the son of a baker from an Syriac-Christian family. His schooling and university studies took place in Damascus. From 1965, Schami wrote stories in Arabic...	Rika Lesser	German	Winner
1992	Houghton Mifflin Company	The Man from the Other Side	Uri Orlev Uri Orlev Uri Orlev is an award-winning Israeli children's author and translator of Polish-Jewish origin.-Biography:Uri Orlev, born Jerzy Henryk Orlowski, was born in Warsaw, Poland. He survived the war years in the Warsaw Ghetto and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he was sent to after his...	Hillel Halkin	Hebrew	Winner
1993						none
1994	Farrar, Straus and Giroux Farrar, Straus and Giroux Farrar, Straus and Giroux is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus, Jr. and John C. Farrar. Known primarily as Farrar, Straus in its first decade of existence, the company was renamed several times, including Farrar, Straus and Young and Farrar, Straus and Cudahy...	The Apprentice	Pilar Molina Llorente	Robin Longshaw	Spanish	Winner
1994	Farrar Farrar, Straus and Giroux Farrar, Straus and Giroux is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus, Jr. and John C. Farrar. Known primarily as Farrar, Straus in its first decade of existence, the company was renamed several times, including Farrar, Straus and Young and Farrar, Straus and Cudahy...	The Princess in the Kitchen Garden	Annemie & Margriet Heymans	Johanna H. Prins and Johanna W. Prins	Dutch	Honor
1994	Viking Viking Press Viking Press is an American publishing company owned by the Penguin Group, which has owned the company since 1975. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim...	Anne Frank Beyond the Diary: A Photographic Remembrance	Ruud van der Rol & Rian Verhoeven	Tony Langham and Plym Peters	Dutch	Honor
1995	E.P. Dutton	The Boys from St. Petri	Bjarne Reuter Bjarne Reuter Bjarne Reuter is a Danish writer and screenwriter, best known for his books for children and teenagers.Many of his works are set in the fifties and sixties, the time period of his childhood and adolescence. Many also deal with the Copenhagen area, where he was born...	Anthea Bell Anthea Bell Anthea Bell OBE is a British translator who has translated numerous literary works, especially children's literature, from French, German, Danish and Polish to English...	Danish	Winner
1995	Lothrop, Lee & Shepard HarperCollins HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...	Sister Shako and Kolo the Goat: Memories of My Childhood in Turkey	Vedat Dalokay	Güner Ener	Turkish	Honor
1996	Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is an educational and trade publisher in the United States. Headquartered in Boston's Back Bay, it publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers and adults.-History:The company was...	The Lady with the Hat	Uri Orlev Uri Orlev Uri Orlev is an award-winning Israeli children's author and translator of Polish-Jewish origin.-Biography:Uri Orlev, born Jerzy Henryk Orlowski, was born in Warsaw, Poland. He survived the war years in the Warsaw Ghetto and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he was sent to after his...	Hillel Halkin	Hebrew	Winner
1996	Henry Holt & Co	Damned Strong Love: The True Story of Willi G. And Stephan K.	Lutz Van Dijk	Elizabeth D. Crawford	German	Honor
1996	Walker and Co Walker Books Walker Books is an independent British publisher of children's books, founded in 1978 by Sebastian Walker.The success of their Where's Wally? series enabled them to expand into the American market, starting a sister company called Candlewick Press in 1991.Amelia Edwards, co-founder of Walker Books,...	Star of Fear, Star of Hope	Jo Hoestlandt	Mark Polizzotti	French	Honor
1997	Farrar, Straus and Giroux Farrar, Straus and Giroux Farrar, Straus and Giroux is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus, Jr. and John C. Farrar. Known primarily as Farrar, Straus in its first decade of existence, the company was renamed several times, including Farrar, Straus and Young and Farrar, Straus and Cudahy...	The Friends	Kazumi Yumoto	Cathy Hirano	Japanese	Winner
1998	Henry Holt	The Robber and Me	Josef Holub	Elizabeth D. Crawford	German	Winner
1998	Scholastic Press	Hostage to War: a True Story	Tatjana Wassiljewa	Anna Trenter	German	Honor
1998	Viking Publishing Viking Press Viking Press is an American publishing company owned by the Penguin Group, which has owned the company since 1975. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim...	Nero Corleone: a Cat's Story	Elke Heidenrich	Doris Orgel	German	Honor
1999	Dial Dial Press The Dial Press was a publishing house founded in 1923 by Lincoln MacVeagh.Dial Press shared a building with The Dial and Scofield Thayer worked with both. The first imprint was issued in 1924. Authors included Elizabeth Bowen, W.R...	Thanks to My Mother	Schoschana Rabinovici	James Skofield	German	Winner
1999	Viking Viking The term Viking is customarily used to refer to the Norse explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates who raided, traded, explored and settled in wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic islands from the late 8th to the mid-11th century.These Norsemen used their famed longships to...	Secret Letters from 0 to 10	Susie Morgenstern	Gill Rosner	French	Honor
2000	Walker and Company Walker Books Walker Books is an independent British publisher of children's books, founded in 1978 by Sebastian Walker.The success of their Where's Wally? series enabled them to expand into the American market, starting a sister company called Candlewick Press in 1991.Amelia Edwards, co-founder of Walker Books,...	The Baboon King	Anton Quintana	John Nieuwenhuizen	Dutch	Winner
2000	Farrar, Straus and Giroux Farrar, Straus and Giroux Farrar, Straus and Giroux is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus, Jr. and John C. Farrar. Known primarily as Farrar, Straus in its first decade of existence, the company was renamed several times, including Farrar, Straus and Young and Farrar, Straus and Cudahy...	Collector of Moments	Quint Buchholz	Peter F. Neumeyer	German	Honor
2000	R&S Books Rabén & Sjögren Rabén & Sjögren is a book publishing company in Sweden. It was established in 1942 by Hans Rabén and Carl-Olof Sjögren. Since 1998 it is part of the P.A. Norstedt och Söner publishing group, a division of Kooperativa Förbundet....	Vendela in Venice	Christina Björk	Patricia Crampton	Swedish	Honor
2000	Front Street	Asphalt Angels	Ineke Holtwijk	Wanda Boeke	Dutch	Honor
2001	Arthur A. Levine Arthur A. Levine Books Arthur A. Levine Books is an imprint of Scholastic Corporation which specializes in fiction and non-fiction books for young readers. The imprint was founded in 1996 by Arthur Levine in New York City. The first book published by Arthur A. Levine Books was "When She Was Good" by Norma Fox Mazer in... /Scholastic Press	Samir and Yonatan	Daniella Carmi	Yael Lotan	Hebrew	Winner
2001	David R. Godine David R. Godine David R. Godine is the founder and president of David R. Godine, Inc., a small publishing house located in Boston, Massachusetts. The company is independent and its list tends to reflect the individual tastes of its president....	Ultimate Game	Christian Lehmann	William Rodarmor	French	Honor
2002	Cricket Books/Carus Publishing Carus Publishing Company The Carus Publishing Company is a publisher with offices in Chicago, Peru, Illinois, and Peterborough, New Hampshire. It owns the Open Court Publishing Company as well as the Cricket Magazine Group, and Cobblestone Publishing...	How I Became an American	Karin Gündisch	James Skofield	German	Winner
2002	Viking Press Viking Press Viking Press is an American publishing company owned by the Penguin Group, which has owned the company since 1975. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim...	A Book of Coupons	Susie Morgenstern	Gill Rosner	French	Honor
2003	The Chicken House/Scholastic Publishing	The Thief Lord The Thief Lord The Thief Lord is a children's novel written by Cornelia Funke. It was published in Germany in 2000 and translated into English by Oliver Latsch in 2002 for The Chicken House, a division of Scholastic publishing company...	Cornelia Funke Cornelia Funke Cornelia Funke is a multiple award-winning German author of children's fiction. She was born on 10 December 1958, in Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia. Funke is best known for her Inkworld trilogy, with the English translation of the third book, Inkdeath, released on 6 October 2008. Many of her...	Oliver Latsch	German	Winner
2003	David R. Godine David R. Godine David R. Godine is the founder and president of David R. Godine, Inc., a small publishing house located in Boston, Massachusetts. The company is independent and its list tends to reflect the individual tastes of its president....	Henrietta and the Golden Eggs	Hanna Johansen	John Barrett	German	Honor
2004	Walter Lorraine Books/ Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is an educational and trade publisher in the United States. Headquartered in Boston's Back Bay, it publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers and adults.-History:The company was...	Run, Boy, Run	Uri Orlev Uri Orlev Uri Orlev is an award-winning Israeli children's author and translator of Polish-Jewish origin.-Biography:Uri Orlev, born Jerzy Henryk Orlowski, was born in Warsaw, Poland. He survived the war years in the Warsaw Ghetto and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he was sent to after his...	Hillel Halkin	Hebrew	Winner
2004	Chronicle Books Chronicle Books Chronicle Books is a San Francisco-based American publisher of books for adults and children.The company was established in 1968 by Phelps Dewey, an executive with Chronicle Publishing Company, then-publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle. In 1999 it was bought by Nion McEvoy, great-grandson of...	The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 Apollo 11 In early 1969, Bill Anders accepted a job with the National Space Council effective in August 1969 and announced his retirement as an astronaut. At that point Ken Mattingly was moved from the support crew into parallel training with Anders as backup Command Module Pilot in case Apollo 11 was...  Astronaut Michael Collins Michael Collins (astronaut) Michael Collins is a former American astronaut and test pilot. Selected as part of the third group of fourteen astronauts in 1963, he flew in space twice. His first spaceflight was Gemini 10, in which he and command pilot John Young performed two rendezvous with different spacecraft and Collins...	Bea Uusma Schyffert	Emi Guner	Swedish	Honor
2005	Delacorte Press Dell Publishing Dell Publishing, an American publisher of books, magazines and comic books, was founded in 1921 by George T. Delacorte, Jr.During the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, Dell was one of the largest publishers of magazines, including pulp magazines. Their line of humor magazines included 1000 Jokes, launched in... /Random House Children's Books Random House Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...	The Shadows of Ghadames	Joëlle Stolz	Catherine Temerson	French	Winner
2005	Farrar Straus Giroux	The Crow-Girl: The Children of Crow Cove	Bodil Bredsdorff	Faith Ingwersen	Danish	Honor
2005	Richard Jackson Books/Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation, is a publisher founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. It is one of the four largest English-language publishers, alongside Random House, Penguin and HarperCollins... 's Atheneum Atheneum Books Atheneum Books was a publishing house and adult publisher created by Alfred A. Knopf, Jr. in 1959. He recruited editor Jean E. Karl personally, to come and establish a Children's Book Department in 1961....  division	Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi	David Chotjewitz David Chotjewitz David Chotjewitz is a German writer and theatre director who lives in Hamburg.- Life :In 1967, his family moved to Rome, where Chotjewitz grew up until 1973. He attended the Italian primary school and later the German school of Rome. In 1973, he moved with his parents and brother to the small...	Doris Orgel	German	Honor
2006	Arthur A. Levine Books Arthur A. Levine Books Arthur A. Levine Books is an imprint of Scholastic Corporation which specializes in fiction and non-fiction books for young readers. The imprint was founded in 1996 by Arthur Levine in New York City. The first book published by Arthur A. Levine Books was "When She Was Good" by Norma Fox Mazer in...	An Innocent Soldier	Josef Holub	Michael Hofmann	German	Winner
2006	Phaidon Press Limited Phaidon Press Phaidon Press is a British publisher of books on the visual arts, including art, architecture, photography, and design worldwide.As of 2009, Phaidon's headquarters are in London, UK, though they were in Oxford for many years, with offices in New York City, Paris, Berlin, Milan, and Tokyo...	Nicholas Le petit Nicolas Le Petit Nicolas is a series of French children's books. It was created by René Goscinny and illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempé and it was published for the first time on March 29, 1959...	René Goscinny René Goscinny René Goscinny was a French comics editor and writer, who is best known for the comic book Astérix, which he created with illustrator Albert Uderzo, and for his work on the comic series Lucky Luke with Morris and Iznogoud with Jean Tabary.-Early life:Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926, to a family...	Anthea Bell Anthea Bell Anthea Bell OBE is a British translator who has translated numerous literary works, especially children's literature, from French, German, Danish and Polish to English...	French	Honor
2006	Bloomsbury Children’s Books	When I Was a Soldier	Valérie Zenatti	Adriana Hunter	French	Honor
2007	Delacorte Press	The Pull of the Ocean	Jean-Claude Mourlevat	Y. Maudet	French	Winner
2007	Delacorte Press	The Killer's Tears	Anne-Laure Bondoux	Y. Maudet	French	Honor
2007	Hyperion/Miramax Miramax Books Miramax Books was a publishing imprint started by Bob and Harvey Weinstein of Miramax Films and was known for the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. It published the memoirs of many major celebrities, including David Boies, Madeline Albright, Rudolph Giuliani, Tim Russert, and others...	The Last Dragon	Silvana De Mari	Shaun Whiteside	Italian	Honor
2008	VIZ Media VIZ Media VIZ Media, LLC, headquartered in San Francisco, is an anime, manga, and Japanese entertainment company. It was founded in 1986 as VIZ LLC. In 2005, VIZ LLC and ShoPro Entertainment merged to form the current VIZ Media LLC, which is jointly owned by Japanese publishers Shogakukan and Shueisha, and...	Brave Story Brave Story is a Japanese fantasy novel written by Miyuki Miyabe. It was serialized in various regional newspapers between the November 11, 1999 and February 13, 2001 before being published in two hardcover volumes by Kadokawa Shoten in March 2003...	Miyuki Miyabe Miyuki Miyabe Miyuki Miyabe is a popular contemporary Japanese author active in a number of genres that include science fiction, mystery fiction, historical fiction, social commentary, and juvenile fiction...	Alexander O. Smith	Japanese	Winner
2008	Milkweed Editions Milkweed Editions Milkweed Editions is an independent, non-profit publishing company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Milkweed's goal is to make a positive impact on society through the transformative art of literature. Milkweed is sometimes called the largest independent, non-profit literary publisher in the United...	The Cat: Or, How I Lost Eternity	Jutta Richter Jutta Richter Jutta Richter is a German author of children's and youth literature.Richter spent her youth in the Ruhr and Sauerland and at the age of 15 she spent a year in Detroit...	Anna Brailovsky	German	Honor
2008	Phaidon Press Phaidon Press Phaidon Press is a British publisher of books on the visual arts, including art, architecture, photography, and design worldwide.As of 2009, Phaidon's headquarters are in London, UK, though they were in Oxford for many years, with offices in New York City, Paris, Berlin, Milan, and Tokyo...	Nicholas and the Gang	René Goscinny René Goscinny René Goscinny was a French comics editor and writer, who is best known for the comic book Astérix, which he created with illustrator Albert Uderzo, and for his work on the comic series Lucky Luke with Morris and Iznogoud with Jean Tabary.-Early life:Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926, to a family...	Anthea Bell Anthea Bell Anthea Bell OBE is a British translator who has translated numerous literary works, especially children's literature, from French, German, Danish and Polish to English...	French	Honor
2009	Arthur A. Levine Books Arthur A. Levine Books Arthur A. Levine Books is an imprint of Scholastic Corporation which specializes in fiction and non-fiction books for young readers. The imprint was founded in 1996 by Arthur Levine in New York City. The first book published by Arthur A. Levine Books was "When She Was Good" by Norma Fox Mazer in...	Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit	Nahoko Uehashi Nahoko Uehashi is a Japanese writer, most famous for the series, which sold over 1.5 million copies in Japan. One of her novels, Guardian of the Sacred Spirit has been adapted into an anime television series, a manga, and a radio drama. The same book was published in English from Arthur A...	Cathy Hirano	Japanese	Winner
2009	Eerdmans Books for Young Readers	Garmann’s Summer	Stian Hole Stian Hole Stian Hole is a Norwegian graphic designer, illustrator and writer of children's books. He has made numerous book covers and three picture books which have gained national and international recognition.- References :...	Don Bartlett	Norwegian	Honor
2009	Amulet Books ABRAMS Books Abrams, formerly Harry N. Abrams, Inc. , is an American publisher of high-quality art and illustrated books, and the enterprise is presently a subsidiary of the French publisher La Martinière Groupe...	Tiger Moon	Antonia Michaelis	Anthea Bell Anthea Bell Anthea Bell OBE is a British translator who has translated numerous literary works, especially children's literature, from French, German, Danish and Polish to English...	German	Honor
2010	Delacorte Press	A Faraway Island	Annika Thor	Linda Schenck	Swedish	Winner
2010	Farrar Straus Giroux	Eidi	Bodil Bredsdorff	Kathryn Mahaffy	Danish	Honor
2010	Enchanted Lion Books	Big Wolf and Little Wolf	Nadine Brun-Cosme	Claudia Bedrick	French	Honor
2010	Arthur A. Levine Books Arthur A. Levine Books Arthur A. Levine Books is an imprint of Scholastic Corporation which specializes in fiction and non-fiction books for young readers. The imprint was founded in 1996 by Arthur Levine in New York City. The first book published by Arthur A. Levine Books was "When She Was Good" by Norma Fox Mazer in...	Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness	Nahoko Uehashi Nahoko Uehashi is a Japanese writer, most famous for the series, which sold over 1.5 million copies in Japan. One of her novels, Guardian of the Sacred Spirit has been adapted into an anime television series, a manga, and a radio drama. The same book was published in English from Arthur A...	Cathy Hirano	Japanese
2011	Delacorte Press	A Time of Miracles	Anne-Laure Bondoux	Y. Maudet	French	Winner
2011	Namelos	Departure Time	Truus Matti	Nancy Forest-Flier	Dutch	Honor
2011	Atheneum Books Atheneum Books Atheneum Books was a publishing house and adult publisher created by Alfred A. Knopf, Jr. in 1959. He recruited editor Jean E. Karl personally, to come and establish a Children's Book Department in 1961....	Nothing	Janne Teller Janne Teller Janne Teller is a Danish writer of fiction.- Life :Janne Teller was born in Copenhagen. Her family is of Austrian-German origin. As a macroeconomist, she worked as a consultant for the European Union and the United Nations in Dar-es-Salaam, Brussels, New York, and in Mozambique...	Martin Aitken Martin Aitken Martin Aitken FRS is a British archaeometrist.He organized an annual meetings which became the "Symposium on Archaeometry and Archaeological Prospection".He retired in 1989.-External links:...	Danish	Honor

Recipients of multiple awards and honors

• Scholastic has received 5 award and 2 honors including those awarded to their Arthur A. Levine
  Arthur A. Levine Books
  Arthur A. Levine Books is an imprint of Scholastic Corporation which specializes in fiction and non-fiction books for young readers. The imprint was founded in 1996 by Arthur Levine in New York City. The first book published by Arthur A. Levine Books was "When She Was Good" by Norma Fox Mazer in...
  
   and Franklin Watts imprints.
• E.P. Dutton has received 5 awards
• Delacorte Press has received 4 awards and 1 honor.
• Houghton Mifflin
  Houghton Mifflin
  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is an educational and trade publisher in the United States. Headquartered in Boston's Back Bay, it publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers and adults.-History:The company was...
  
  has received 4 awards
• Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
  HarperCollins
  HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
  
  has received 3 awards and 1 honor
• Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  Farrar, Straus and Giroux is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus, Jr. and John C. Farrar. Known primarily as Farrar, Straus in its first decade of existence, the company was renamed several times, including Farrar, Straus and Young and Farrar, Straus and Cudahy...
  
  has received 2 awards and 4 honors
• Holt, Rinehart & Winston has received 2 awards
• William Morrow and Company
  William Morrow and Company
  William Morrow and Company is an American publishing company founded by William Morrow in 1926. The company was acquired by Scott Foresman in 1967, and sold to Hearst Corporation in 1981. It was sold along to the News Corporation in 1999...
  
  has received 2 awards
• Viking Press
  Viking Press
  Viking Press is an American publishing company owned by the Penguin Group, which has owned the company since 1975. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim...
  
  has received 1 award and 4 honors.
• Henry Holt has received 1 award and 1 honor
• Walker Books
  Walker Books
  Walker Books is an independent British publisher of children's books, founded in 1978 by Sebastian Walker.The success of their Where's Wally? series enabled them to expand into the American market, starting a sister company called Candlewick Press in 1991.Amelia Edwards, co-founder of Walker Books,...
  
  has received 1 award and 1 honor
• David R. Godine
  David R. Godine
  David R. Godine is the founder and president of David R. Godine, Inc., a small publishing house located in Boston, Massachusetts. The company is independent and its list tends to reflect the individual tastes of its president....
  
  has received 2 honors
• Phaidon Press
  Phaidon Press
  Phaidon Press is a British publisher of books on the visual arts, including art, architecture, photography, and design worldwide.As of 2009, Phaidon's headquarters are in London, UK, though they were in Oxford for many years, with offices in New York City, Paris, Berlin, Milan, and Tokyo...
  
  has received 2 honors

• 4 awards and 3 honors bestowed to various publishers for publishing the work of Anthea Bell
  Anthea Bell
  Anthea Bell OBE is a British translator who has translated numerous literary works, especially children's literature, from French, German, Danish and Polish to English...
  
  (translator), translating from Danish, French and German the work of various authors
• 4 awards bestowed to Houghton Mifflin
  Houghton Mifflin
  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is an educational and trade publisher in the United States. Headquartered in Boston's Back Bay, it publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers and adults.-History:The company was...
  
   for publishing the work of Uri Orlev
  Uri Orlev
  Uri Orlev is an award-winning Israeli children's author and translator of Polish-Jewish origin.-Biography:Uri Orlev, born Jerzy Henryk Orlowski, was born in Warsaw, Poland. He survived the war years in the Warsaw Ghetto and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he was sent to after his...
  
  (author)
• 3 awards bestowed to various publishers for publishing the work of Alki Zei
  Alki Zei
  Alki Zei is a Greek novelist and children's author. - Biography :Alki Zei studied in the philosophy school of Athens University, the Drama School of the Athens Odeion, and in the screenwriting department of the Moscow Cinema Institute. From 1954 to 1964 she lived in the Soviet Union as a...
  
  (author) .
• 2 awards bestowed to E.P. Dutton for publishing the work of Bjarne Reuter
  Bjarne Reuter
  Bjarne Reuter is a Danish writer and screenwriter, best known for his books for children and teenagers.Many of his works are set in the fifties and sixties, the time period of his childhood and adolescence. Many also deal with the Copenhagen area, where he was born...
  
  (author)
• 2 awards bestowed to various publishers for publishing the work of Josef Holub (author)
• 1 award and 1 honor bestowed upon Arthur A. Levine Books
  Arthur A. Levine Books
  Arthur A. Levine Books is an imprint of Scholastic Corporation which specializes in fiction and non-fiction books for young readers. The imprint was founded in 1996 by Arthur Levine in New York City. The first book published by Arthur A. Levine Books was "When She Was Good" by Norma Fox Mazer in...
  
   for publishing the work of Nahoko Uehashi
  Nahoko Uehashi
  is a Japanese writer, most famous for the series, which sold over 1.5 million copies in Japan. One of her novels, Guardian of the Sacred Spirit has been adapted into an anime television series, a manga, and a radio drama. The same book was published in English from Arthur A...
  
  (author)
• 2 honors bestowed to Phaidon Press
  Phaidon Press
  Phaidon Press is a British publisher of books on the visual arts, including art, architecture, photography, and design worldwide.As of 2009, Phaidon's headquarters are in London, UK, though they were in Oxford for many years, with offices in New York City, Paris, Berlin, Milan, and Tokyo...
  
   for publishing the work of René Goscinny
  René Goscinny
  René Goscinny was a French comics editor and writer, who is best known for the comic book Astérix, which he created with illustrator Albert Uderzo, and for his work on the comic series Lucky Luke with Morris and Iznogoud with Jean Tabary.-Early life:Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926, to a family...
  
    (author)
• 2 honors bestowed to Viking Press
  Viking Press
  Viking Press is an American publishing company owned by the Penguin Group, which has owned the company since 1975. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim...
  
   for publishing the work of Susie Morgenstern (author)
• 4 awards bestowed to Houghton Mifflin
  Houghton Mifflin
  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is an educational and trade publisher in the United States. Headquartered in Boston's Back Bay, it publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers and adults.-History:The company was...
  
   for publishing the work of Hillel Halkin (translator), translating from Hebrew the work of Uri Orlev
  Uri Orlev
  Uri Orlev is an award-winning Israeli children's author and translator of Polish-Jewish origin.-Biography:Uri Orlev, born Jerzy Henryk Orlowski, was born in Warsaw, Poland. He survived the war years in the Warsaw Ghetto and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he was sent to after his...
  
  .
• 3 awards bestowed to various publishers for publishing the work of Edward Fenton (translator), translating from Greek the work of Alki Zei
  Alki Zei
  Alki Zei is a Greek novelist and children's author. - Biography :Alki Zei studied in the philosophy school of Athens University, the Drama School of the Athens Odeion, and in the screenwriting department of the Moscow Cinema Institute. From 1954 to 1964 she lived in the Soviet Union as a...
  
  .
• 2 awards and 1 honor bestowed to various publishers for publishing the work of Patricia Crampton (translator), translating from German and Swedish the work of various authors.
• 2 awards and 1 honor bestowed to various publishers for publishing the work of Elizabeth D. Crawford (translator), translating from German the work of various authors.
• 2 awards and 1 honor bestowed to various publishers for publishing the work of Cathy Hirano (translator), translating from Japanese the work of various authors.
• 2 awards bestowed to various publishers for publishing the work of James Skofield (translator), translating from German the work of various authors.
• 1 award and 1 honor bestowed upon Delacorte Press for publishing the work of Y. Maudet (translator), translating from French the work of various authors.
• 2 honors bestowed to various publishers for publishing the work of Doris Orgel (translator), translating from German the work of various authors
• 2 honors bestowed to Viking Press
  Viking Press
  Viking Press is an American publishing company owned by the Penguin Group, which has owned the company since 1975. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim...
  
  for publishing the work of Gill Rosner (translator), translating from French the work of Susie Morgenstern.

• 14 awards and 8 honors for works translated from German.
• 5 awards for works translated from Hebrew.
• 4 awards and 1 honor for works translated from Japanese.
• 3 awards and 3 honors for works translated from Dutch.
• 3 awards and 2 honors for works translated from Danish.
• 3 awards for works translated from Greek.
• 4 awards and 2 honors for works translated from Swedish.
• 2 awards and 9 honors for works translated from French.
• 1 award and 1 honor for works translated from Italian.
• 1 award and 1 honor for works translated from Norwegian.