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Template:Short description Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".The Mildred L. Batchelder Award, or Batchelder Award, is an American Library Association literary award that annually recognizes the publisher of the year's "most outstanding" children's book translated into English and published in the U.S.[1][2]
The Mildred L. Batchelder Award is unusual in that it is given to a publisher yet it explicitly references a given work, its translator and author. It seeks to recognize translations of children's books into the English language, with the intention of encouraging American publishers to translate high quality foreign language children's books and "promote communication between the people of the world".
It is administered by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), the children's division of ALA, and conferred upon the U.S. publisher.
The award is named in honor of Mildred L. Batchelder, former director of the ALSC.[2] One of her stated goals was "to eliminate barriers to understanding between people of different cultures, races, nations, and languages."
The Batchelder Award was inaugurated in 1968 and there have been 47 winners in 48 years through 2015.[3]
From 1994 there have been 38 worthy runners-up called Honor Books, one to three each year.
The 2015 winner is Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, an imprint of William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., for Mikis and the Donkey, translated by Laura Watkinson. The Dutch original Mikis, de Ezeljongen (2011) was written by Bibi Dumon Tak, illustrated by Philip Hopman.
Mildred L. Batchelder
Batchelder began her career working in an Omaha, Nebraska Public Library, then as a children's librarian at St. Cloud State Teachers College, and subsequently as librarian of Haven Elementary School in Evanston, Illinois. She eventually joined the ranks of the American Library Association in 1936 spending the next 30 years at the ALA promoting the translation of children's literature.[2]
Criteria
Source: "Batchelder Award terms and criteria"[4]
- The award shall be made 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 published in English in the United States during the preceding year.
- The Award, in the form of a citation, shall be made annually, unless no book of that particular year is deemed worthy of the honor. The translation should be true to original work and retain the viewpoint of the author.
- The translation should reflect the style of the author and of the original language.
- The book should not be unduly "Americanized." The book's reader should be able to sense that the book came from another country.
- Folk literature is not eligible.
- Picture books are not eligible unless the text is substantial and at least as important as the pictures.
- The book must have the potential to appeal to a child audience (age 0-14).
- The overall design of the book should enhance and not detract from the text, thus making the book more or less effective as a children's book. Such aspects might include: illustration, type face, layout, book jacket, etc.
- Consideration should be given to the retention of the original illustrator's work in the U.S. edition.
Recipients
Winners are distinguished from Honor Books by yellow background and by 'W' in the far right column.
| Year. | Awarded Publisher | Title | Author | Translator | Language | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Alfred A. Knopf | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | German | W |
| 1969 | Charles Scribner's Sons | Don't Take Teddy | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Norwegian | W |
| 1970 | Holt, Rinehart & Winston | Wildcat Under Glass | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Greek | W |
| 1971 | Pantheon Books | In the Land of Ur, the Discovery of Ancient Mesopotamia | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | German | W |
| 1972 | Holt, Rinehart & Winston | Friedrich | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | German | W |
| 1973 | William Morrow | Pulga | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Dutch | W |
| 1974 | E. P. Dutton | Petros' War | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Greek | W |
| 1975 | Crown Publishing Group | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Russian | W |
| 1976 | Henry Z. Walck | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | German | W |
| 1977 | Atheneum Press | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Danish | W |
| 1978 | (no award) | |||||
| 1979 | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | Rabbit Island | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | German | W |
| Franklin Watts / Scholastic | Konrad | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | German | W | |
| 1980 | E. P. Dutton | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Greek | W |
| 1981 | William Morrow | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Dutch | W |
| 1982 | Bradbury Press | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Swedish | W |
| 1983 | Lothrop, Lee & Shepard | Hiroshima No Pika | Script error: No such module "sort". | Kurita-Bando Literary Agency | Japanese | W |
| 1984 | Viking Press | Ronia the Robber's Daughter | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Swedish | W |
| 1985 | Houghton Mifflin | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Hebrew | W |
| 1986 | Creative Education | Rose Blanche | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Italian | W |
| 1987 | Lothrop, Lee & Shepard | No Hero for the Kaiser | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | German | W |
| 1988 | McElderry Books | If You Didn't Have Me | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Swedish | W |
| 1989 | Lothrop, Lee & Shepard | Crutches | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | German | W |
| 1990 | E. P. Dutton | Buster's World | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Danish | W |
| 1991 | E. P. Dutton | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | German | W |
| Houghton Mifflin Company | Two Short and One Long | Nina Ring Aamundsen | Norwegian | hon | ||
| 1992 | Houghton Mifflin | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Hebrew | W |
| 1993 | (no award) | |||||
| 1994 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Spanish | W |
| Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Dutch | hon | |
| Viking Press | Anne Frank Beyond the Diary: A Photographic Remembrance | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Dutch | hon | |
| 1995 | E.P. Dutton | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Danish | W |
| Lothrop, Lee & Shepard | Sister Shako and Kolo the Goat: Memories of My Childhood in Turkey | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Turkish | hon | |
| 1996 | Houghton Mifflin | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Hebrew | W |
| Henry Holt & Co | Damned Strong Love: The True Story of Willi G. And Stephan K. | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | German | hon | |
| Walker and Company | Star of Fear, Star of Hope | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | French | hon | |
| 1997 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Japanese | W |
| 1998 | Henry Holt & Co | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | German | W |
| Scholastic Press | Hostage to War: a True Story | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | German | hon | |
| Viking Press | Nero Corleone: a Cat's Story | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | German | hon | |
| 1999 | Dial Press | Thanks to My Mother | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | German | W |
| Viking Press | Secret Letters from 0 to 10 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | French | hon | |
| 2000 | Walker and Company | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Dutch | W |
| Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Collector of Moments | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | German | hon | |
| Rabén & Sjögren | Vendela in Venice | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Swedish | hon | |
| Front Street | Asphalt Angels | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Dutch | hon | |
| 2001 | Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic | Samir and Yonatan | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Hebrew | W |
| David R. Godine | Ultimate Game | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | French | hon | |
| 2002 | Cricket Books / Carus Publishing | How I Became an American | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | German | W |
| Viking Press | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | French | hon | |
| 2003 | The Chicken House / Scholastic | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | German | W |
| David R. Godine | Henrietta and the Golden Eggs | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | German | hon | |
| 2004 | Walter Lorraine Books (Houghton Mifflin) | Run, Boy, Run | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Hebrew | W |
| Chronicle Books | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Swedish | hon | |
| 2005 | Delacorte Press / Dell | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | French | W |
| Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Danish | hon | |
| Atheneum Books (Richard Jackson Bks) | Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | German | hon | |
| 2006 | Arthur A. Levine Books | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | German | W |
| Phaidon Press | Nicholas | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | French | hon | |
| Bloomsbury Children’s Books | When I Was a Soldier | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | French | hon | |
| 2007 | Delacorte Press / Dell | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | French | W |
| Delacorte Press / Dell | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | French | hon | |
| Hyperion / Miramax | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Italian | hon | |
| 2008 | VIZ Media | Brave Story | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Japanese | W |
| Milkweed Editions | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | German | hon | |
| Phaidon Press | Nicholas and the Gang | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | French | hon | |
| 2009 | Arthur A. Levine Books | Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Japanese | W |
| Eerdmans Books for Young Readers | Garmann's Summer | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Norwegian | hon | |
| Amulet Books | Tiger Moon | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | German | hon | |
| 2010 | Delacorte Press / Dell | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Swedish | W |
| Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Eidi | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Danish | hon | |
| Enchanted Lion Books | Big Wolf and Little Wolf | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | French | hon | |
| Arthur A. Levine Books | Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Japanese | hon | |
| 2011 [5] |
Delacorte Press / Dell | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | French | W |
| namelos | Departure Time | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Dutch | hon | |
| Atheneum Books | Nothing | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Danish | hon | |
| 2012 [6] |
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers | Soldier Bear | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Dutch | W |
| Delacorte Press / Dell | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Swedish | hon | |
| 2013 | Dial Books | My Family for the War | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | German | W |
| Graphic Universe | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | French | hon | |
| Eerdmans Books for Young Readers | Son of a Gun | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Dutch | hon | |
| 2014 | Enchanted Lion Books | Mister Orange | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Dutch | W |
| Enchanted Lion Books | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | French | hon | |
| Enchanted Lion Books | My Father's Arms Are a Boat | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Norwegian | hon | |
| Eerdmans Books for Young Readers | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Dutch | hon | |
| 2015 | Eerdmans Books for Young Readers | Mikis and the Donkey | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Dutch | W |
| Roaring Brook Press (First Second Books) | Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | French | hon | |
| Enchanted Lion Books | Nine Open Arms | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Dutch | hon | |
| 2016 | Enchanted Lion Books | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | French | W |
| Seven Stories Press | Adam and Thomas | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Hebrew | hon | |
| NorthSouth Books | Grandma Lives in a Perfume Village | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Chinese | hon | |
| TOON Books (Candlewick Press) | Written and Drawn by Henrietta | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Spanish | hon | |
| 2017 | Enchanted Lion Books | Cry, Heart, But Never Break | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Danish | W |
| NorthSouth Books | As Time Went By | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | German | hon | |
| Margaret K. McElderry Books | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Norwegian | hon | |
| Chronicle Books | Over the Ocean | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Japanese | hon | |
| 2018 | Delacorte Press / Dell | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Swedish | W |
| Charlesbridge | Malala: Activist for Girls' Education | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | French | hon | |
| Eerdmans Books for Young Readers | When a Wolf is Hungry | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | French | hon | |
| Elsewhere Editions | You Can't Be Too Careful! | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Portuguese | hon | |
| 2019 | Thames & Hudson | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Translation Bureau | Lithuanian | W |
| Yonder | Run for Your Life | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Italian | hon | |
| Graphic Universe | My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | FrenchTemplate:Efn | hon | |
| Enchanted Lion Books | Jerome by Heart | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | French | hon | |
| 2020 | Enchanted Lion Books | BrownTemplate:Efn | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Norwegian | W |
| Godwin Books/Henry Holt | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Japanese | hon | |
| Atheneum Books | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Italian | hon | |
| Enchanted Lion Books | Do Fish Sleep? | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | German | hon | |
| Plough Publishing House | When Spring Comes to the DMZ' | Lee Uk-bae | Lee Uk-bae | Korean | hon | |
| 2021 | Enchanted Lion Books | Telephone TalesTemplate:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort"., illustrated by Valerio Vidali | Script error: No such module "sort". | Italian | W |
| HarperCollins | Catherine's War | Script error: No such module "Sort"., illustrated by Template:Ill | Script error: No such module "sort". | French | hon | |
| 2022 | Restless Books | Temple Alley Summer | Script error: No such module "sort"., illustrated by Template:Ill | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Japanese | W |
| Enchanted Lion Books | Coffee, Rabbit, Snowdrop, Lost | Script error: No such module "sort"., illustrated by Margrethe Kjaergaard | Script error: No such module "sort". | Danish | hon | |
| Elsewhere Editions | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort"., illustrated by Nooshin Safakhoo | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Persian/Farsi | hon | |
| Enchanted Lion Books | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort"., illustrated by Øyvind Torseter | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Norwegian | hon | |
| Enchanted Lion Books | Sato the Rabbit (Book 1) | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Japanese | hon | |
| Levine Querido | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort"., illustrated by Template:Ill | David Bowles | Spanish | hon | |
| 2023[7] | HarperCollins | Just a Girl: A True Story of World War II | Script error: No such module "sort"., illustrated by Jess Mason | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Italian | W |
| Eerdmans Books for Young Readers | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort"., illustrated by Eva Sánchez Gómez | Script error: No such module "sort". | Spanish | hon | |
| Candlewick Press | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Chinese | hon | |
| Levine Querido | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Portuguese | hon | |
| 2024 [8] | Amulet Books | Houses with a Story: A Dragon’s Den, a Ghostly Mansion, a Library of Lost Books, and 30 More Amazing Places to Explore | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Japanese | W |
| Yonder | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort"., illustrated by Yukiko Saito | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Japanese | hon | |
| Eerdmans Books for Young Readers | Later, When I’m Big | Script error: No such module "Sort"., illustrated by Template:Ill | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Dutch | hon | |
| Levine Querido | Pardalita | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Portuguese | hon |
Multiple awards and honors
E. P. Dutton and Enchanted Lion Books have won five Batchelder Awards, Delacorte Press (Dell) four. Several imprints have won three: Arthur A. Levine Books (Scholastic); Lothrop, Lee & Shepard (HarperCollins); Houghton Mifflin.
Anthea Bell's translations from Danish, French and German have won seven mentions, four Awards and three Honors. Hillel Halkin's translations from Hebrew have four awards. Translations from Greek by Edward Fenton have won three, as have translations from Dutch by Laura Watkinson. Several people have translated two Award winners.
Uri Orlev writing in Hebrew and Alki Zei writing in Greek were the authors of four and three Award-winning works, all of those translated by Halkin and Fenton respectively. Bjarne Reuter wrote two of the winners in Danish, Bibi Dumon Tak two in Dutch, and Josef Holub two in German.
- Numbers of Awards and Honors by original language
| Awd | Hon | Language |
|---|---|---|
| (56) | (66) | (1968–2023) |
| 15 | 10 | German |
| 6 | 8 | Dutch |
| 6 | 5 | Japanese |
| 5 | 3 | Swedish |
| 5 | 1 | Hebrew |
| 4 | 17 | French |
| 4 | 4 | Danish |
| 3 | 3 | Italian |
| 3 | 0 | Greek |
| 2 | 4 | Norwegian |
| 1 | 3 | Spanish |
| 1 | 0 | Russian |
| 1 | 0 | Lithuanian |
| 0 | 3 | Portuguese |
| 0 | 2 | Chinese |
| 0 | 1 | Turkish |
| 0 | 1 | Korean |
| 0 | 1 | Persian/Farsi |
See also
Notes
References
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- ↑ "Welcome to the (Mildred L.) Batchelder Award home page". Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC). American Library Association (ALA). Retrieved 2013-05-05.
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- ↑ a b "Batchelder Award winners, 1968–Present". ALSC. ALA. Retrieved 2009-02-17.
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External links
- Front Street imprint book search at Boyds Mill Press
- Enchanted Lion Books publisher
- namelos publisher