Newbery Award Winners:Awarded to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
Caldecott Award Winners: Awarded to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
Batchelder Award Winners: Awarded to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a language other than English.
Pura Belpre Award Winners: Awarded 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.
Geisel Award Winners: Awarded to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers.