The Jane Addams Children's Book Awards are given annually to the children's books that promote the cause of peace, social justice, world community,

The awards were established as a way to identify and honor the very best writing and illustrations by and about American Indians.

The Hans Christian Andersen Award is the highest international recognition given to an author and an illustrator of children's books.

The Pura Belpré Award, established in 1996, is presented annually to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in a work of literature for children and youth.

Awards for excellence in children's literature are given annually in three categories: Picture Book, Fiction and Poetry, and Nonfiction.

The Caldecott Award is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.

The Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award was established in 1985 and the New Illustrator Award in 2001 to recognize and encourage emerging talent in the field of children’s books.

The Coretta Scott King Book Awards are given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values.

The Schneider Family Book Awards honor an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.

The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal is awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in the United States in English during the preceding year.

The Wilder Award honors an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.

Carter G. Woodson Book Award is intended to “encourage the writing, publishing, and dissemination of outstanding social studies books for young readers that treat topics related to ethnic minorities and race relations sensitively and accurately.”