Award+Winners

=Children's Literature Award Winners:= You will never go wrong by picking a book that is an award winner. These are often books that are used in schools to complement reading and other curriculums. As a future teacher, you should be acquainted with some of the winners from the Newbery and Caldecott lists.

[|Newbery Award:] The purpose of the Newbery Medal was stated as follows: "To encourage original creative work in the field of books for children. To emphasize to the public that contributions to the literature for children deserve similar recognition to poetry, plays, or novels. To give those librarians, who make it their life work to serve children's reading interests, an opportunity to encourage good writing in this field."

[|Caldecott Medal]: It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.