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Boston Public Library eBooks & audiobooks for kids
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Find full text of children's classics like Mother Goose
OCLN eBooks & audiobooks for kids
eBooks and audiobooks for public library card holders in the Old Colony Library Network

Caldecott & Newbery Award Winners

Use these lists to find Caldecott and Newbery award winning books in the library.

Other Book Awards

Boston Globe - Horn Book Awards Among the most prestigious honors in the field of children’s and young adult literature. Winners are selected in three categories: Picture Book, Fiction and Poetry, and Nonfiction. Two Honor Books may be named in each category. The winning titles must be published in the United States but they may be written or illustrated by citizens of any country.
Caldecott Medal Named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. 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.
Children's Literature Legacy Award Honors an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made, over a period of years, a significant and lasting contribution to children's literature through books that demonstrate integrity and respect for all children's lives and experiences.
The Coretta Scott King Book Awards Given annually 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.
Ezra Jack Keats Award The EJK Award is given annually to an outstanding new writer and new illustrator .
Hans Christian Andersen Medal The highest international recognition given to an author and an illustrator of children's books. Given every other year by IBBY, the Hans Christian Andersen Awards recognize lifelong achievement and are presented to an author and an illustrator whose complete works have made an important, lasting contribution to children's literature.
Jane Addams Children's Book Award Annually recognizes children’s books of literary and aesthetic excellence that effectively engage children in thinking about peace, social justice, global community, and equity for all people.
Mildred L. Batchelder Award The Batchelder Award is awarded to an American publisher for a children’s book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originating in a country other than the United States and in a language other than English during the preceding year.
NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children Honors a living American poet for his or her aggregate work for children ages 3–13.
NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children's Literature Established in 1989 to promote and recognize excellence in the writing of nonfiction for children.
Newbery Award 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, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
New Voices Award Given for a children’s picture book manuscript by a writer of color or Native/Indigenous writer.
Pura Belpré Award The award is named after Pura Belpré, the first Latina librarian at the New York Public Library. The Pura Belpré Award, established in 1996, is presented annually 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.
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal Awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in the United States in English during the preceding year.
Sydney Taylor Book Award Presented annually to outstanding books for children and teens that authentically portray the Jewish experience.
Theodore Seuss Geisel Award The Geisel Award is given annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers published in English in the United States during the preceding year.
Tomás Rivera Book Award Honors authors and illustrators who create literature that depicts the Mexican American experience.

Local Public Libraries

Old Colony Library Network Catalog
Towns in OCLN include Brockton, Whitman, Holbrook, Abington, Weymouth, Quincy, Randolph, and more.
SAILS Library Network
Towns in SAILS include Bridgewater (and East and West), Carver, Easton, Hanson, Halifax, Foxboro, Fall River, Raynham