Books in Mildred L. Batchelder Award

Books for children ranging in age from 0-14, the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States

2024

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Houses with a Story: A Dragon’s Den, a Ghostly Mansion, a Library of Lost Books, and 30 More Amazing Places to Explore	Seiji Yoshida	Winner	Log In To Like
	Pardalita	Joana Estrela	Honor	Log In To Like
	Later, When I’m Big	Bette Westera	Honor	Log In To Like
	The House of the Lost on the Cape	Sachiko Kashiwaba	Honor	Log In To Like

2023

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Different: A Story of the Spanish Civil War	Mónica Montañés	Honor	Log In To Like
	João by a Thread	Roger Mello	Honor	Log In To Like
	Dragonfly Eyes	Cao Wenxuan	Honor	Log In To Like
	Just a Girl: A True Story of World War II	Lia Levi	Winner	Log In To Like

2022

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Coffee, Rabbit, Snowdrop, Lost	Betina Birkjaer	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas	María García Esperón	Honor	Log In To Like
	Sato the Rabbit (Book 1)	Yuki Ainoya	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Most Beautiful Story	Brynjulf Jung Tjønn	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Meadow of Fantasies	Hadi Mohammadi	Honor	Log In To Like
	Temple Alley Summer	Sachiko Kashiwaba	Winner	Log In To Like

2021

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Catherine's War	Julia Billet	Honor	Log In To Like
	Telephone Tales	Gianni Rodari	Winner	Log In To Like

2020

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Beast Player	Nahoko Uehashi	Honor	Log In To Like
	When Spring Comes to the DMZ'	Lee Uk-bae	Honor	Log In To Like
	Do Fish Sleep?	Jens Raschke	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Distance Between Me and the Cherry Tree	Paola Peretti	Honor	Log In To Like
	Brown	Håkon Øvreås	Winner	Log In To Like

2019

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Run for Your Life	Silvana Gandolfi	Honor	Log In To Like
	Jerome by Heart	Thomas Scotto	Honor	Log In To Like
	My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder	Nie Jun	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Fox on the Swing	Evelina Daciūtė	Winner	Log In To Like

2018

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Murderer's Ape	Jakob Wegelius	Winner	Log In To Like
	You Can't Be Too Careful!	Roger Mello	Honor	Log In To Like
	When a Wolf is Hungry	Christine Naumann-Villemin	Honor	Log In To Like
	Malala: Activist for Girls' Education	Raphaёle Frier	Honor	Log In To Like

2017

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Cry, Heart, But Never Break	Glenn Ringtved	Winner	Log In To Like
	Over the Ocean	Tarō Gomi	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Ballad of a Broken Nose	Arne Svingen	Honor	Log In To Like
	As Time Went By	José Sanabria	Honor	Log In To Like

2016

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Adam and Thomas	Aharon Appelfeld	Honor	Log In To Like
	Written and Drawn by Henrietta	Ricardo Liniers	Honor	Log In To Like
	Grandma Lives in a Perfume Village	Fang Suzhen	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Wonderful Fluffy Little Squishy	Beatrice Alemagna	Winner	Log In To Like

2015

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust	Loïc Dauvillier	Honor	Log In To Like
	Nine Open Arms	Benny Lindelauf	Honor	Log In To Like
	Mikis and the Donkey	Bibi Dumon Tak	Winner	Log In To Like

2014

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Bathing Costume or the Worst Vacation of My Life	Charlotte Moundlic	Honor	Log In To Like
	The War Within These Walls	Aline Sax	Honor	Log In To Like
	My Father's Arms Are a Boat	Stein Erik Lunde	Honor	Log In To Like
	Mister Orange	Truus Matti	Winner	Log In To Like

2013

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return	Zeina Abirached	Honor	Log In To Like
	Son of a Gun	Anne de Graaf	Honor	Log In To Like
	My Family for the War	Anne C. Voorhoeve	Winner	Log In To Like

2012

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Lily Pond	Annika Thor	Honor	Log In To Like
	Soldier Bear	Bibi Dumon Tak	Winner	Log In To Like

2011

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Departure Time	Truus Matti	Honor	Log In To Like
	Nothing	Janne Teller	Honor	Log In To Like
	A Time of Miracles	Anne-Laure Bondoux	Winner	Log In To Like

2010

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Eidi	Bodil Bredsdorff	Honor	Log In To Like
	Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness	Nahoko Uehashi	Honor	Log In To Like
	Big Wolf and Little Wolf	Nadine Brun-Cosme	Honor	Log In To Like
	A Faraway Island	Annika Thor	Winner	Log In To Like

2009

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Garmann's Summer	Stian Hole	Honor	Log In To Like
	Tiger Moon	Antonia Michaelis	Honor	Log In To Like
	Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit	Nahoko Uehashi	Winner	Log In To Like

2008

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Cat: Or, How I Lost Eternity	Jutta Richter	Honor	Log In To Like
	Brave Story	Miyuki Miyabe	Winner	Log In To Like
	Nicholas and the Gang	René Goscinny	Honor	Log In To Like

2007

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Last Dragon	Silvana De Mari	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Killer's Tears	Anne-Laure Bondoux	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Pull of the Ocean	Jean-Claude Mourlevat	Winner	Log In To Like

2006

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	An Innocent Soldier	Josef Holub	Winner	Log In To Like
	When I Was a Soldier	Valérie Zenatti	Honor	Log In To Like
	Nicholas	René Goscinny	Honor	Log In To Like

2005

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Crow-Girl: The Children of Crow Cove	Bodil Bredsdorff	Honor	Log In To Like
	Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi	David Chotjewitz	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Shadows of Ghadames	Joëlle Stolz	Winner	Log In To Like

2004

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins	Bea Uusma Schyffert	Honor	Log In To Like
	Run, Boy, Run	Uri Orlev	Winner	Log In To Like

2003

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Henrietta and the Golden Eggs	Hanna Johansen	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Thief Lord	Cornelia Funke	Winner	Log In To Like

2002

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	A Book of Coupons	Susie Morgenstern	Honor	Log In To Like
	How I Became an American	Karin Gündisch	Winner	Log In To Like

2001

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Ultimate Game	Christian Lehmann	Honor	Log In To Like
	Samir and Yonatan	Daniella Carmi	Winner	Log In To Like

2000

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Collector of Moments	Quint Buchholz	Honor	Log In To Like
	Asphalt Angels	Ineke Holtwijk	Honor	Log In To Like
	Vendela in Venice	Christina Björk	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Baboon King	Anton Quintana	Winner	Log In To Like

1999

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Secret Letters from 0 to 10	Susie Morgenstern	Honor	Log In To Like
	Thanks to My Mother	Schoschana Rabinovici	Winner	Log In To Like

1998

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Robber and Me	Josef Holub	Winner	Log In To Like
	Nero Corleone: a Cat's Story	Elke Heidenreich	Honor	Log In To Like
	Hostage to War: a True Story	Tatjana Wassiljewa	Honor	Log In To Like

1997

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Friends	Kazumi Yumoto	Winner	Log In To Like

1996

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Lady with the Hat	Uri Orlev	Winner	Log In To Like
	Star of Fear, Star of Hope	Jo Hoestlandt	Honor	Log In To Like
	Damned Strong Love: The True Story of Willi G. And Stephan K.	Lutz van Dijk	Honor	Log In To Like

1995

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Sister Shako and Kolo the Goat: Memories of My Childhood in Turkey	Vedat Dalokay	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Boys from St. Petri	Bjarne Reuter	Winner	Log In To Like

1994

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Anne Frank Beyond the Diary: A Photographic Remembrance	Ruud van der Rol	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Princess in the Kitchen Garden	Annemie Heymans	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Apprentice	Pilar Molina Llorente	Winner	Log In To Like

1992

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Man from the Other Side	Uri Orlev	Winner	Log In To Like

1991

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	A Hand Full of Stars	Rafik Schami	Winner	Log In To Like

1990

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Buster's World	Bjarne Reuter	Winner	Log In To Like

1989

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Crutches	Peter Härtling	Winner	Log In To Like

1988

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	If You Didn't Have Me	Ulf Nilsson	Winner	Log In To Like

1987

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	No Hero for the Kaiser	Rudolph Frank	Winner	Log In To Like

1986

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Rose Blanche	Christophe Gallaz	Winner	Log In To Like

1985

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Island on Bird Street	Uri Orlev	Winner	Log In To Like

1984

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Ronia the Robber's Daughter	Astrid Lindgren	Winner	Log In To Like

1983

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Hiroshima No Pika	Toshi Maruki	Winner	Log In To Like

1982

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Battle Horse	Harry Kullman	Winner	Log In To Like

1981

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Winter When Time Was Frozen	Els Pelgrom	Winner	Log In To Like

1980

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Sound of the Dragon's Feet	Alki Zei	Winner	Log In To Like

1979

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Konrad	Christine Nöstlinger	Winner	Log In To Like
	Rabbit Island	Jörg Steiner	Winner	Log In To Like

1977

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Leopard	Cecil Bødker	Winner	Log In To Like

1976

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Cat and Mouse Who Shared a House	Ruth Hürlimann	Winner	Log In To Like

1975

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	An Old Tale Carved Out of Stone	A. Linevskii	Winner	Log In To Like

1974

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Petros' War	Alki Zei	Winner	Log In To Like

1973

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Pulga	S. R. Van Iterson	Winner	Log In To Like

1972

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Friedrich	Hans Peter Richter	Winner	Log In To Like

1971

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	In the Land of Ur, the Discovery of Ancient Mesopotamia	Hans Baumann	Winner	Log In To Like

1970

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Wildcat Under Glass	Alki Zei	Winner	Log In To Like

1969

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Don't Take Teddy	Babbis Friis-Baastad	Winner	Log In To Like

1968

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Little Man	Erich Kästner	Winner	Log In To Like