Pathfinder

**Pathfinder Title:** Award Winning Children’s Books  **Introduction:** This pathfinder was created to help teachers and students find children’s books have won an award. It can be very intimidating to begin a search on a topic that you need information. I wanted to find some useful websites that contained the exact information being looked for.

 **Search Strategy:** Google ([|www.google.com]) Children’s Books 69,800,000 Award Winning Children’s Books 1,020,000 Award Winning and Children’s Books 1,070,000 Book Awards 83,000,000 Children’s Book Awards 86,000,000 Awards for Children’s Books 12,700,000 Caldecott winning books 47,900 Sequoyah Books 457,000 Sequoyah book winners 19,100
 * Key Terms:** Children’s Books, Award winning children’s books, Book awards, Children’s Book Awards, Caldecott winning books, Sequoyah Books


 * Resources:** (list resources found with annotations)

1. Children’s Book Awards-- [] This site contains links to other sites about book awards all over the world. If you want to know what types of awards are given in Australia, you can find that information. 2. Award Winning Children’s Book—http://www2.scholastic.com/brouse/article.jsp?id=4514  This link will take you to an article. Within the article, there are links to Caldecott Awards Book List, Newbery Awards Book List, and the Coretta Scott King Awards Book List. The article also tells a little about each of those awards. 3. American Library Association--http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/index.cfm  This site lists several different awards that books and media can receive. From this site, you can link to other sites that contain book lists for a specific award. 4. Sequoyah Book Awards--http://www.oklibs.org/sequoyah/ This award is given by the Oklahoma Library Association. This site gives information about the winners, awards, and history. 5. Sequoyah Book Award--http://www.yukon.lib.ok.us/sequoyah.html This website is from the Yukon Library. It lists the past winners and 2009 Master list of Nominated books.

6. Caldecott Medal Books--http://lib.mansfield.edu/caldecott.cfm The list generated on this website is from Mansfield University Library. It lists all of the books that have received this award this the 1930s.

7. About the Caldecott Award--http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/aboutcaldecott/aboutcaldecott.cfm This site gives the history of the Caldecott Award and how it came to be. There is also a picture of the Caldecott Honor Seal.

8. About the Newbery Award--http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/aboutnewbery/aboutnewbery.cfm Includes information about how the Newbery Award came about and what books could be in the running to receive this award. There is also a picture of the Newbery Honor Seal.

9. Award-Winning Children’s Book--http://www.underdown.org/childrens-book-awards.htm This site includes 10 US awards awarded by the America Library Association. There is a little information about why awards are important.

10. Coretta Scott King Awards--http://aalbc.com/books/related.htm This site give history about the Coretta Scott King Award and who is eligible to win the award.