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Batchelder Award
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The Mildred L. Batchelder Award is given each year by the American Library Association
to honor the most outstanding children's book originally published in a foreign language
and then translated into English and published in the United States.

 

2013 Winner:
My Family for the War by Anne C. Voorhoeve
(YA Fic  Voorhoeve)
Honor Books:
A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return by Zeina Abirached  (YA 956.52  Abirached)
Son of a Gun by Anne de Graaf (YA Fic  de Graaf)
2012 Winner:
Soldier Bear by Bibi Dumon Tak; ill. by Philip Hopman
(Juv Fic  Dumon Tak)
Honor Books:
The Lily Pond by Annika Thor  (Juv Fic  Thor)
2011 Winner:
A Time of Miracles by Anne-Laure Bondoux
(YA Fic  Bondoux)
Honor Books:
Departure Time by Truus Matti  (Juv Fic  Matti)
Nothing
by Janne Teller (YA Fic  Teller)
2010 Winner:
A Faraway Island by Annika Thor  (Juv Fic  Thor)
Honor Books:
Big Wolf and Little Wolf by Nadine Brun-Cosme ( j )
Eidi by Bodil Bredsdorff (Juv Fic  Bredsdorff)
Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness by Nahoko Uehashi (YA Fic SF  Uehashi)
2009 Winner:
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit by Nahoko Uehashi (YA Fic SF  Uehashi)
Honor Books:
Garmann's Summer by Stian Hole ( j )
Tiger Moon by Antonia Michaelis (YA Fic SF  Michaelis)
2008 Winner:
Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe  (YA Fic SF  Miyabe)
Honor Books:
The Cat: Or, How I Lost Eternity by Jutta Richter  (Juv Fic SF)
Nicholas and the Gang by Rene Goscinny (Juv Fic  Goscinny)
2007 Winner:
The Pull of the Ocean by Jean-Claude Mourlevat  (YA Fic  Mourlevat)
Honor Books:
The Killer's Tears by Anne-Laure Bondoux  (YA Fic  Bondoux)
The Last Dragon by Silvana De Mari (Juv Fic SF  De Mari)
2006 Winner:
An Innocent Soldier by Josef Holub  (YA Fic  Holub)
Honor Books:
Nicholas by Rene Goscinny (Juv Fic  Goscinny)
When I was a Soldier by Valerie Zenatti  (YA 921 Z43AAw)
2005 Winner:
The Shadows of Ghadames by Joelle Stolz  (Juv Fic  Stolz)
Honor Books:
The Crow Girl: The Children of Crow Cove by Bodil Bredsdorff (Juv Fic  Bredsdorff)
Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi by David Chotjewitz (YA Fic  Chotjewitz)
2004 Winner:
Run, Boy, Run by Uri Orlev  (Juv Fic Orlev)
Honor Books:
The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins by Bea Uusma Schyffert (j629.454  Schyffert)
 2003 Winner:
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke  (Juv Fic Funke)
 Honor Books:
Henrietta and the Golden Eggs by Hanna Johansen ( j )
2002 Winner:
How I Became an American by Karin Gündisch  (Juv Fic  Gündisch )
Honor Books:
A BOOK OF COUPONS by Susie Morgenstern
2001 Winner:
Samir and Yonatan by Daniella Carmi  (Juv Fic  Carmi)
Honor Books:
ULTIMATE GAME by Christian Lehmann
2000 Winner:
The Baboon King by Anton Quintana  (YA Fic  Quintana)
Honor Books:
Collector of Moments by Quint Buchholz (Juv Fic  Buchholz)
Vendela in Venice by Christina Björk (Juv Fic  Björk)
Asphalt Angels by Ineke Holtwijk (YA Fic  Holtwijk)
1999 Winner:
Thanks to My Mother by Schoschana Rabinovici  (YA 940.5318  Rabinovici)
Honor Book:
SECRET LETTERS FROM 1 TO 10 by Susie Morgenstern
1998 Winner:
The Robber and Me by Josef Holub  (Juv Fic  Holub)
Honor Books:
Hostage to War: a True Story by Tatjana Wassiljewa (j940.5316  Wassiljewa)
NERO CORLEONE: A CAT'S STORY by Elke Heidenrich
1997 Winner:
THE FRIENDS by Kazumi Yumoto
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1996 Winner:
THE LADY WITH THE HAT by Uri Orlev
Honor Books:
DAMNED STRONG LOVE: THE TRUE STORY OF WILLI G. AND STEPHAN K. by Lutz Van Dijk
Star of Fear, Star of Hope by Jo Hoestlandt ( j )
1995 Winner:
THE BOYS FROM ST. PETRI by Bjarne Reuter
Honor Books:
SISTER SHAKO AND KOLO THE GOAT: MEMORIES OF MY CHILDHOOD IN TURKEY by Vedat Dalokay
1994 Winner:
The Apprentice by Pilar Molina Llorente  (Juv Fic  Molina Llorente)
Honor Books:
Anne Frank Beyond the Diary: A Photographic Remembrance by Ruud van der Rol and Rian Verhoeven (j940.53  van der Rol)
The Princess in the Kitchen Garden by Annemie & Margriet Heymans (Juv Fic  Heymans)
1993 Winner:
(no award given)
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1992 Winner:
The Man from the Other Side by Uri Orlev  (Juv Fic  Orlev)
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1991 Winner:
A Hand Full of Stars by Rafik Schami  (YA Fic  Schami)
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1990 Winner:
BUSTER'S WORLD by Bjarne Reuter
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1989 Winner:
CRUTCHES by Peter Härtling
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1988 Winner:
IF YOU DIDN'T HAVE ME by Ulf Nilsson
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1987 Winner:
NO HERO FOR THE KAISER by Rudolph Frank
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1986 Winner:
Rose Blanche by Christophe Gallaz & Robert Innocenti  (j940.5318  Innocenti)
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1985 Winner:
The Island on Bird Street by Uri Orlev  (Juv Fic  Orlev)
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1984 Winner:
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren  (Juv Fic  Lindgren)
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1983 Winner:
Hiroshima No Pika by Toshi Maruki  (j940.542  Maruki)
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1982 Winner:
THE BATTLE HORSE by Harry Kullman
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1981 Winner:
THE WINTER WHEN TIME WAS FROZEN by Els Pelgrom
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1980 Winner:
THE SOUND OF THE DRAGON'S FEET by Aliki Zei
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1979 Winner:
RABBIT ISLAND by Jörg Steiner
KONRAD by Christine Nöstlinger
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1978 Winner:
(no award given)  
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1977 Winner:
THE LEOPARD by Cecil Bødker
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1976 Winner:
THE CAT AND MOUSE WHO SHARED A HOUSE by Ruth Hürlimann
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1975 Winner:
AN OLD TALE CARVED OUT OF STONE by A. Linevskii
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1974 Winner:
PETROS' WAR by Aliki Zei
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1973 Winner:
PULGA by S. R. Van Iterson
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1972 Winner:
Friedrich by Hans Peter Richter  (Juv Fic  Richter)
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1971 Winner:
IN THE LAND OF UR, THE DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA by Hans Baumann
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1970 Winner:
WILDCAT UNDER GLASS by Aliki Zei
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1969 Winner:
DON'T TAKE TEDDY by Babbis Friis-Baastad
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1968 Winner:
The Little Man by Erich Kästner
(Juv Fic  Kästner)
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1/31/13
Duluth Public Library, 520 W. Superior St., Duluth, MN  55802

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