She has won numerous awards including a National Book Award, Newbery Honor, Toronto Dominion Award, International White Raven, Canadian Library Association's Young Adult Book of the Year, short - listed for Germany's most
prestigious literature award, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, the Writer's Trust Vicky Metcalfe Award for her body of work, and many others.
Not exact matches
The Newbery and Caldecott medals, the most
prestigious awards given in children's
literature, have been announced for 1997.
The Man Booker Prize for
literature is one of the most
prestigious awards in publishing and very often the winners go on to critical success.
Every year the publishing industry and book lovers alike wait with bated breath for the announcement of
prestigious prizes such as the Pulitzer, National Book
Award, or the Nobel Prize in
Literature.
Mary served for fourteen years as education director at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, where she organized an annual festival of children's
literature and selected judges for the prestigious McKnight Award in Children's L
literature and selected judges for the
prestigious McKnight
Award in Children's
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I'm not surprised Almond was honored with this
prestigious award, as he's been called «one of the finest writers in the world of children's
literature, a writer of uncommon vision and elegant prose» in our own pages.
His particular way with color, line, detail, and design have earned him many of the most
prestigious awards in his field, among them a Caldecott Honor
Award for Strega Nona, the Smithsonian Medal from the Smithsonian Institution, the Kerlan
Award from the University of Minnesota for his «singular attainment in children's
literature,» the Catholic Library Association's Regina Medal for his «continued distinguished contribution,» and the University of Southern Mississippi Medallion.
CORDOBA: Maria Teresa Andruetto is the first Argentine author to win the
prestigious Hans Christian Andersen
Award, the «Nobel» prize for children's
literature, organized since 1956 by the International Board of Books for Young People and presented each year at the Bologna International Children's Book Fair.
Voices from a Medieval Village,» and Brian Selznick, illustrator of «The Invention of Hugo Cabret,» are the 2008 winners of the John Newbery and Randolph Caldecott Medals, the most
prestigious awards in children's
literature.
The organizers hope the Prize — which will be
awarded annually from now on — will become the gaming equivalent of the
prestigious Man Booker prize for
literature, or Mercury Music prize for recording artists,
awarded to the game with the most significant cultural relevance.
Isabelle Arsenault is an
award - winning illustrator whose first childrens book received the prestigious Governor Generals Award for childrens literature in French (illustrat
award - winning illustrator whose first childrens book received the
prestigious Governor Generals
Award for childrens literature in French (illustrat
Award for childrens
literature in French (illustration).