The 2010 Mildred L. Batchelder Award Committee invites your input in helping us identify eligible titles. The Award will be announced at the ALA Youth Media Awards press conference at Midwinter (Boston) and presented at the Annual Conference in Washington, DC.
Terms: “The Mildred L. Batchelder 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.” There may be Honor Books as well.
Basically, eligible books are those for readers within the age range of 0-14 years. Readers “should be able to sense that the book came from another country.” Books should have a “substantial” translated text, since this award focuses on text rather than illustration. Books should not be unduly Americanized. Both fiction and nonfiction are eligible, though folklore is excluded.
For more about the Award and information on current and past winners, see the Batchelder home page.
If you know of titles that are eligible for consideration, please contact me at agoldsmith.fsu@gmail.com.
Best,
Annette
Annette Goldsmith, PhD
Chair, 2010 Mildred L. Batchelder Award Committee
Member, USBBY Outstanding International Books Committee