Mildred L. Batchelder Award
This award was established in 1966 and honors Mildred L. Batchelder, whose life's work was "to eliminate barriers to understanding between people of different cultures, races, nations, and languages." The award is granted annually 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 translated into English and published in the United States.
The following list includes the award winners, and their respective call numbers in the Millar Library. The Children’s Literature Award Winners are all shelved together at the beginning of the PZ call number range in the southeast corner of the 5th floor. Titles without call numbers are not currently owned by the Millar Library. Ask for help at the reference desk on the 2nd floor if you need assistance with obtaining a copy from another library.
The list of award winners and their locations in the Millar Library can be retrieved by entering “Batchelder Award” as a keyword search in the Vikat online catalog.
Joëlle Stolz; trans. by Catherine Temerson, The shadows of Ghadames (PZ7.S875837 S52 2004)
2004
Uri Orlev; trans. from Hebrew by Hillel Halkin, Run,
boy, run (PZ7.O633 R86 2003)
2003
Cornelia Funke; trans. by Oliver Latsch, The
thief lord (PZ7.F96624 T48 2002)
2002
Karin Gündisch; trans. from German by James Skofield, How
I became an American (PZ7.G967 H69 2001)
2001
Daniella Carmi; trans. from the Hebrew by Yael Lotan, Samir
and Yonatan (PZ7 .C21723 S26 2000 )
2000
Anton Quintana; trans. by John Nieuwenhuizen, The
baboon king (PZ7 .Q485 B3 1999)
1999
Schoschana Rabinovici; trans. from German by James Skofield, Thanks
to my mother (PZ9.5 .R3 A3 1998)
1998
Josef Holub; trans. from German by Elizabeth D. Crawford, The
robber and me (PZ7 .H74278 B66 1997)
1997
Kazumi Yumoto; trans. by Cathy Hirano, The
friends (PZ7 .Y8967 F75 1996)
1996
Uri Orlev; trans. from Hebrew by Hillel Halkin, The
lady with the hat (PZ7 .O633 L33 1995)
1995
Bjarne Reuter; trans. by Anthea Bell, The
boys from St. Petri (PZ7 .R3259 B69 1994)
1994
Pilar Molina Llorente; trans. by Robin Longshaw, The
apprentice (PZ7 .M7324 A67 1994 )
1993 No award given
1992
Uri Orlev; trans. from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin, The
man from the other side (PZ7 .O633 M3 1991)
1991
Rafik Schami; trans. from German by Rika Lesser, A
hand full of stars (PZ7.S3337 H36 1992)
1990
Bjarne Reuter; trans. by Anthea Bell, Buster's
world (PZ7 .R3259 B9 1989)
1989
Peter Härtling; trans. from the German by Elizabeth D. Crawford, Crutches
(PZ7 .H26717 C7 1988)
1988
Ulf Nilsson; trans. from the Swedish by Lone Thygesen Blecher and George
Blecher, If you didn't
have me
(PZ7 .N589 I33 1987)
1987
Rudolf Frank; trans. from the German by Patricia Crampton, No
hero for the kaiser (PZ7 .F8516 N6 1986)
1986
Christophe Gallaz and Roberto Innocenti; trans. by Martha Coventry and
Richard Graglia, Rose Blanche
(PZ7 .I586 R6 1985)
1985
Uri Orlev; trans. from Hebrew by Hillel Halkin, The
island on Bird Street (PZ7 .O633 I8 1984)
1984
Astrid Lindgren; trans. by Patricia Crampton, Ronia,
the robber's daughter (PZ7 .L6585 R6 1983)
1983
Toshi Maruki, Hiroshima
no pika (PZ9 .M3379 H5 1982)
1982
Harry Kullman; trans. from Swedish by George Blecher and Lone Thygesen-Blecher,
The battle horse
(PZ7 .K949016 B3 1981)
1981
Els Pelgrom; trans. by Maryka and Raphael Rudnik, The
winter when time was frozen (PZ7 .P363 W5)
1980
Alki Zei; trans. from Greek by Edward Fenton, The
sound of the dragon's feet (PZ7 .Z32 S6 1979)
1979 2 awards given:
Christine Nostlinger ; translated by Anthea Bell, Konrad
(PZ7 .N672 K6 1983)
Jörg Steiner; trans. from German by Ann Conrad Lammers, Rabbit Island
1978 No award given
1977
Cecil Bødker; trans. by Gunnar Poulsen, The
leopard (PZ7 .B635717 L4 1975)
1976
Ruth Hürlimann; trans. by Anthea Bell, The
cat and mouse who shared a house (PZ8 .H8654 C3)
1975
A. Linevski; trans. from Russian by Maria Polushkin, An
old tale carved out of stone (PZ7 .L662 O4)
1974
Aliki Zei; trans. from Greek by Edward Fenton, Petros'
war (PZ7 .Z32 P4)
1973
S. R. van Iterson; trans. from Dutch by Alexander and Alison Gode, Pulga
(PZ7 .I9 P8)
1972
Hans Peter Richter; trans. from German by Edite Kroll, Friedrich
(PZ7 .R4154 F7)
1971
Hans Baumann; trans. by Stella Humphries, In
the Land of Ur: the discovery of ancient Mesopotamia
(PZ9 .B3 I5 1969)
1970
Aliki Zei; trans. from Greek by Edward Fenton, Wildcat
Under Glass (PZ7 .Z32 W5 1969)
1969
Babbis Friis-Baastad; trans. from Norwegian by Lise Sømme McKinnon, Don't
take Teddy (PZ7 .B113 D6)
1968
Kleine Mann; trans. from German by James Kirkup, The
Little Man (PZ7 .K118 L5 1966)
For more information about the award visit the
American Library Association, Association for Library
Service to Children website: http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/batchelderaward/batchelderaward.htm
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