RESULTS-Book Awards & Collection Development

[PAM LONG <LONG@SLAB.UNT.EDU>]

      Top choices of book awards as selection aids in collection
development:
     Newbery Gold - 16 votes
     Caldecott Gold -15 votes
     Coretta Scott King - 7 votes
     Newbery Honor - 6 votes
     Caldecott Honor - 6 votes
     Carnegie - 3 votes
     Kate Greenaway - 3 votes
     Batchelder - 2 votes
     IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award - 1 vote
     Mother Goose Award - 1 vote
     IRA Children's Choices -1 vote
     New York Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year - 1 vote

     STATE AWARDS:
     Texas Bluebonnet Award - 5 votes
     The Lone Star Reading List - 2 votes
     Mark Twain (Missouri) - 2 votes
     Utah Award - 1 vote
     Golden Sower (Nebraska) - 1 vote
     Rhode Island Book Award - 1 vote
     Show Me (Missouri) - 1 vote
     KC-# (Missouri) - 1 vote
     Charlie Mae Simpson (Arkansas) - 1 vote
     Sunshine State Young Reader's Award (Florida) - 1 vote

     OTHER:
     Children's Book Council Award (Australia) - 1 vote

     OTHER SOURCES recommended:
     School Library Journal Star Tracks
     Reading Rainbow recommendations
     Booklist
     The Handbook for the 1995(94, 93, 92, ...) Young Reader's Choice
        Award Nominees by Bette Ammon & Gale Sherman, 12.95/3.00 s&h
        from Beyond Basals, 586 University Drive, Pocatello, Idaho
        83201

        IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT INDIVIDUAL AWARDS:
        Award-Winning Books for Children & Young Adults 1990-1991
        by Betty L. Criscoe & Philip J. Lanasa,III.
        LC# - Z1037 .C925 1990-91 ( A brief history and criteria for
          entering or being a judge for each award. Highly
          recommended as a reference source.)
        Batchelder Books: International Read-Alouds
        Top of the News, Spring 1986, p260-266

        The Texas Bluebonnet Award Explained
        Texas Library Journal, Summer 1989, p59-60.

        Randolph Caldecott
        Journal of Youth Services in Libraries, Winter 1988, p143-212.

        Thanks for all the responses. I learned a lot.
        Pam Long
        <Long@SLAB.UNT.EDU>