Award Winning Books for Children
Caldecott Medal

Goldfinch Award

The Goldfinch Award gives children an opportunity to choose the award winning book and to suggest books for the yearly reading list. Books chosen are fiction or nonfiction titles appropriate for children in preschool through 3rd grade.
2023-2024 Nominees
Iowa Children's Choice Award (ICCA)

The Iowa Children’s Choice Award gives children an opportunity to choose the award winning book and to suggest books for the yearly reading list. Books chosen are fiction or nonfiction titles appropriate for children in 3rd through 6th grade.
2023-2024 Nominees
The Lion of Mars
- by Jennifer Holm
Newbery Medal

Coretta Scott King Award

2023 Honor Books
2023 Illustrator Honor Books
Pura Belpré Award

Theodor Seuss Geisel Award

The 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.
Award Winning Books for Teens
Alex Awards

2023 Winners
Iowa High School Book Award

2023-2024 Nominees
Iowa Teen Award

2023-2024 Nominees
Morris Award

Printz Award

YALSA Nonfiction Award

2023 Winner
2023 Finalists
YALSA Teen Top Ten

Vote for the 2023 Teen Top Ten!
The Teens’ Top Ten is a “teen choice” list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year! Nominators are members of teen book groups in fifteen school and public libraries around the country. Nominations are announced the Thursday of National Library Week, and teens across the country vote on their favorite titles each year. Readers ages twelve to eighteen vote online between August 15 and October 15; the winners are announced during October (TeenTober).