Literary Award Season is upon us! Many awards, from the National Book Award to the Youth Media Awards are announced as the year closes and the new year begins. Such an exciting time for book lovers everywhere! TeachingBooks offers browsable lists of many awards filled with engaging resources for the honored titles for you to use!

• Browse through all 147 of the Awards & Distinctions featured on TeachingBooks!

• Explore end of year “best” lists such as:

  • Publishers Weekly Best Books
  • SLJ Best Books of the Year

• Filter by “Book Trailers” to enjoy glimpses of some of the titles.

• Select titles to read aloud each week.

• Embark on a project with your students to learn more about awards for children and youth literature:

  • Have students pick an award from the list to learn more about. Research criteria, who selects the award, the first year the award was given, the first winner, and the most recent winner.
  • To go further, have students select a book from the list to read.
    

• Create your own Custom Lists of titles you would like to read, to purchase, to check out from the library, or add to your classroom collection.
  

• Browse any award list and narrow your results by “Meet-the-Author Recordings” to find primary sources in the author’s own voice that you can share with your readers, such as these:
  

  • Caldecott winner Vashti Harrison for Big
  • Newbery honoree Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson for Eagle Drums
  • Sibert honoree Jessica Lanan on Jumper: A Day in the Life of a Backyard Jumping Spider
  • Printz winner A.S. King on The Collectors