Awards for children's books published in other countries

Two awards that are given each year to an author from another country are the Pura Belpre Award and the Batchelder Award . According to the ALSC, "The award is named after Pura Belpre, the first Latina librarian at the New York Public Library. It is presented annuarly to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth."













The Batchelder Award is given to an American publisher who publishes a book that was originally published in a language other than English. The book also has to be originally published in a country other than the United States and translated into English and published in the United States.