Find Children's Literature

The Association for Library Service to Children's (ALSC) database of book lists and 2000+ searchable award-winning children's books. Click on "more info" on the landing page to learn about awards. ALSC's awards include the Caldecott Medal, Newberry Medal, Geissel Award, Belpre Medal, and Siebert Medal.

An extensive round-up of other awards for children's books not affiliated with ALSC. Those awarded by YALSA are also searchable using the link on this same page for the YALSA Book Finder. Other awards listed and linked include the Coretta Scott King Award, Stonewall Award, and the Tomas Rivera Award.

The YA Library Services Association's database of searchable book lists and 4000+ award-winning books for teens.

Award-winning Mathical titles are selected by a nationwide committee of mathematicians, educators, librarians, early childhood experts, and others. Each year’s selections join a growing list of stories ranging from picture books and graphic novels to chapter books and young adult literature. Explore the collection of stories for ages 2-18.

CCBC Choices is a best-of-the-year list created annually by the librarians of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center. Books recommended in CCBC Choices are included in the searchable (under CCBC Book Search at top right of site).

DAWCL has over 15,000 records from 164 awards across six English-speaking countries (United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, and Ireland). Click the link Explanation of Awards above to see a list of awards, their countries, and a brief explanation. Each book is indexed to some degree so users can find it using the form search or the keyword search

Bookelicious promotes literacy by helping children find great books on topics they are passionate about.

A collection of picture book abstracts searchable by topics, concepts, and skills for building content area reading across all academic subjects.

The Cooperative is located at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It provides ongoing selection of outstanding children's literature titles by theme, statistics on diversity in children's books, and extensive resources for educators.

The NCTE Blog includes book lists that are sortable by the categories on the right side of the page.

Use the drop-down menus at the top of the page to search by subject/genre and audience.