Christchurch City Libraries lists literary prize winners and links to catalogue searches, but we may not hold copies of all titles mentioned.
This page links you to winners and nominees for a range of prizes and awards for children's and young adult books.
New Zealand awards
- New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults (formerly the LIANZA (Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa) Children and Young Adult Book Awards)
- The Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize
- Storylines Awards
- Notable New Zealand Books (Children's Literature Foundation of New Zealand)
International awards
- Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
- Hans Christian Andersen Award
- Lambda Literary Awards - LGBT Children's and Young Adults
- Mythopoeic Fantasy Award
Australian awards
United Kingdom awards
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Carnegie Medal
- Children’s Laureate
- CLPE Poetry Award
- Costa Children’s Book Award (formerly the Whitbread, ended 2021)
- Guardian Children’s Fiction Award
- Kate Greenaway Medal
- Roald Dahl Funny Prize (ended 2013)
- Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize
North American awards
- Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award for Illustration (ended 2016)
- Awards of the Canadian Library Association (ended 2016)
- Blue Ribbons - Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
- Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards
- Coretta Scott King Award
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John Newbery Medal
- National Book Awards - Young people's literature
- Randolph Caldecott Medal
- Stonewall Book Awards – Children’s and Young Adult
- Young Reader’s Choice Award (United States and Canada)
