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Announced 

The Edgar Awards

Website: https://edgarawards.com/

The Edgar Awards honor the best in mystery fiction. The relevant awards are Best Juvenile and Best Young Adult.

The Edgar Awards were announced in May 2025.

Bram Stoker Awards

Website: https://www.thebramstokerawards.com/

The Bram Stoker awards honor superior achievement in the horror genre. The relevant awards are Superior Achievement in a Middle Grade Novel, Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel.

The Bram Stoker Awards were announced in June 2025.

Eisner Awards

Website: https://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards/

The relevant Eisner awards are Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 8), Best Publication for Kids (ages 9 -12), Best Publication for Teens, Best Reality-Based Work.

The Eisner awards were announced in July 2025

The Lodestar Awards

Website: https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2025-hugo-awards/

The Hugo Awards, to give them their full title, are awards for excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy. They were first awarded in 1953, and have been awarded every year since 1955. The awards are run by and voted on by fans.

The Lodestar awards were announced in August 2025.

Ringo Awards

Website: https://ringoawards.com/

The relevant Ringo Award is for Best Kids Comic or Graphic Novel and Best Non-fiction Comic Work.

Ringo Awards were announced on 18 October 2025.

Harvey Awards

Website: https://www.harveyawards.com/en-us.html

Description: “The Harvey Awards are an opportunity to shine a spotlight on the best & brightest, helping new readers, current fans, booksellers, retailers and librarians distinguish the best comics of the year as voted on by their peers.” 

The relevant Harvey Award is Best Children or Young Adult Book.

The Harvey Awards were announced in October 2025.

Alex Awards

Website: https://www.ala.org/yalsa/alex-awards

Description from Website: “The Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has selected 10 adult books with special appeal to teen readers to receive the 2024 Alex Awards.” 

This Award was announced in January 2026.

Coretta Scott King Awards

Website: https://www.ala.org/cskbart

Description: “The Coretta Scott King Book Awards Round Table honors the legacy of Mrs. Coretta Scott King by promoting distinguished award-winning children’s & young adults’ literature by African American authors & illustrators that depict the Black experience.”

Relevant Awards: Author Winner, Illustrator Winner, John Steptoe New Talent Award

This Award was announced in January 2026.

John Newberry Medal

Website: https://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newbery

Description: “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.”

This Award was announced in January 2026.

Michael L. Printz Award

Website: https://www.ala.org/yalsa/printz-award

Description: For YA Novels

This Award was announced in January 2026.

Odyssey Award

Website: https://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/odyssey

Description: “The annual Odyssey award is given to the producer of the best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States.”

This Award was announced in January 2026.

Pura Belpre Award

Website: https://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/belpre

Description: “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.”

Relevant Award: For Children’s Narrative, For Youth Illustrator, For YA Narrative

This Award was announced in January 2026.

Mildred L. Batchelder Award

Website: https://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/batchelder

Description: “The Mildred L. 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 and subsequently translated into English for publication in the United States during the preceding year.”

This Award was announced in January 2026.

Randolph Caldecott Medal

Website: https://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecott

Description: “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.”

This Award was announced in January 2026.

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book

Website: https://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/sibert

Description: “The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal is 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.”

This Award was announced in January 2026.

Schneider Family Book Award

Website: https://www.ala.org/awards/books-media/schneider-family-book-award

Description: “The Schneider Family Book Awards honor an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.”

This Award was announced in January 2026.

Stonewall Book Award

Website: https://www.ala.org/rrt/award/stonewall/honored

Description: “The first and most enduring award for LGBTQIA+ books is the Stonewall Book Awards, sponsored by the American Library Association’s Rainbow Round Table. Since Isabel Miller’s Patience and Sarah received the first award in 1971, many other books have been honored for exceptional merit relating to the LGBTQIA+ experience.”

This Award was announced in January 2026.

Sydney Taylor Book Award

Website: https://jewishlibraries.org/sydney_taylor_book_award/

Description: “The Sydney Taylor Book Award is presented annually to outstanding books for children and teens that authentically portray the Jewish experience. Presented by the Association of Jewish Libraries since 1968, the award encourages the publication and widespread use of quality Judaic literature.”

This Award was announced in January 2026.

Theodor Seuss Geisel Award

Website: https://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/geisel

Description: “The Theodor Seuss 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.”

This Award was announced in January 2026.

William C. Morris Award

Website: https://www.ala.org/yalsa/morris-award

Description: “The William C. Morris YA Debut Award, first given in 2009, honors a book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature.”

This Award was announced in January 2026.

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults

Website: https://www.ala.org/yalsa/nonfiction-award

Description: “The YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults honors the best nonfiction book published for those ages 12-18 during a Nov. 1-Oct. 31 publishing year.”

This Award was announced in January 2026.

Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature

Website: https://www.apalaweb.org/awards/literature-awards/

About: “The Asian Pacific American Award for Literature honors and recognizes individual works reflecting Asian American, Native Hawaiian and/or Pasifika experiences (either historical or contemporary) and cultures created by Asian American, Asian Canadian and/or Pasifika authors and illustrators”

American Indian Youth Literature Awards

Website: https://ailanet.org/activities/american-indian-youth-literature-award/

“Awarded biennially, the AIYLA identifies and honors the very best writing and illustrations by Native Americans and Indigenous peoples of North America. Books selected to receive the award present Indigenous North American peoples in the fullness of their humanity.

The American Indian Youth Literature Awards were announced in January 2026.

Virginia State Literacy Association Readers’ Choice

Website: https://vslatoday.org/About-VRC

About: Readers vote for the award through reading at least 4 of the nominated books in the selected categories by themselves or having it read aloud to them.

The Award is announced after April 30th

Ongoing

Donalyn Miller and Jennifer LeGarde’s Starred Spreadsheet (4 Stars or more since May 2024)

Website: https://sites.google.com/librarygirl.net/among-the-stars-a-starred-revi/home

Jennifer LeGarde and Donalyn Miller update this spreadsheet monthly to reflect the number of journals that have given a starred review to a book. The journals include: Booklist, Hornbook, Kirkus, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and The Bulletin of the Centre for Children’s Books. This list features books that have received stars from four or more journals.