The University of Iowa Libraries maintains a collection of children’s and young adult books to support the research and curricular needs of faculty, students, and staff.  The libraries will order the following award and honor books which are announced each year:

• Alex Award Winners
• Batchelder Award Winner/Honors
• Best Fiction for Young Adults compiled annually by a committee of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)
• Boston Globe-Hornbook
• Bridge to Reading Picture Book Award. Sponsored by the Youth Services Subdivision of the Iowa Library Association.
• Caldecott Medal Honors
• Coretta Scott King Author Honors
• Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honors
• Ezra Jack Keats new writer & new illustrator awards
• Goldfinch Award
• Iowa Children’s Choice Award
• Iowa High School Book Award 
• Iowa Teen Award
• Laura Ingalls Wilder Award
• Margaret A. Edwards Award
• May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture
• Michael L. Printz Award Honors
• Newbery Medal Honors
• Notable Children’s Books compiled annually by the Notable Children’s Books Committee of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)
• NYT best illustrated books
• Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook/Odyssey Award Honors
• Pura Belpre Author Award Honors
• Robert F. Sibert Award Honors
• School Library Journal
• Schneider Family Middle School Winner
• Schneider Family Teens Winner
• Schneider Family Young Children’s Winner
• Stonewall Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award Winner/Honors
• Theodor Seuss Geisel Honors
• William C. Morris YA Debut Award Winner
• YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adult Finalists/Winner

Other materials will be purchased upon request.  Check the online catalog. If a children’s or young adult book is not listed, click here to complete and submit a Recommend a Library Purchase form. Instructors may place children’s and young adult books on reserve for courses. Go to http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/services/courseres/ for information about course reserves. 

This guide was modified by Yunkyoung Loh, Spring, 2015.