Batchelder Award checklist
Every Batchelder Award book on our site, newest first. Print it and tick off the ones you have read.
| Read | Year | Title | By | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 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 | |
| 2024 | Later, When I’m Big | Bette Westera | Honor | |
| 2024 | Pardalita | Joana Estrela | Honor | |
| 2024 | The House of the Lost on the Cape | Sachiko Kashiwaba | Honor | |
| 2023 | Just a Girl: A True Story of World War II | Lia Levi | Winner | |
| 2023 | Different: A Story of the Spanish Civil War | Mónica Montañés | Honor | |
| 2023 | Dragonfly Eyes | Cao Wenxuan | Honor | |
| 2023 | João by a Thread | Roger Mello | Honor | |
| 2022 | Temple Alley Summer | Sachiko Kashiwaba | Winner | |
| 2022 | Coffee, Rabbit, Snowdrop, Lost | Betina Birkjaer | Honor | |
| 2022 | Sato the Rabbit (Book 1) | Yuki Ainoya | Honor | |
| 2022 | The Meadow of Fantasies | Hadi Mohammadi | Honor | |
| 2022 | The Most Beautiful Story | Brynjulf Jung Tjønn | Honor | |
| 2022 | The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas | María García Esperón | Honor | |
| 2021 | Telephone Tales | Gianni Rodari | Winner | |
| 2021 | Catherine's War | Julia Billet | Honor | |
| 2020 | Brown | Håkon Øvreås | Winner | |
| 2020 | Do Fish Sleep? | Jens Raschke | Honor | |
| 2020 | The Beast Player | Nahoko Uehashi | Honor | |
| 2020 | The Distance Between Me and the Cherry Tree | Paola Peretti | Honor | |
| 2020 | When Spring Comes to the DMZ | Lee Uk-bae | Honor | |
| 2019 | The Fox on the Swing | Evelina Daciūtė | Winner | |
| 2019 | Jerome by Heart | Thomas Scotto | Honor | |
| 2019 | My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder | Nie Jun | Honor | |
| 2019 | Run for Your Life | Silvana Gandolfi | Honor | |
| 2018 | The Murderer's Ape | Jakob Wegelius | Winner | |
| 2018 | Malala: Activist for Girls' Education | Raphaёle Frier | Honor | |
| 2018 | When a Wolf is Hungry | Christine Naumann-Villemin | Honor | |
| 2018 | You Can't Be Too Careful! | Roger Mello | Honor | |
| 2017 | Cry, Heart, But Never Break | Glenn Ringtved | Winner | |
| 2017 | As Time Went By | José Sanabria | Honor | |
| 2017 | Over the Ocean | Tarō Gomi | Honor | |
| 2017 | The Ballad of a Broken Nose | Arne Svingen | Honor | |
| 2016 | The Wonderful Fluffy Little Squishy | Beatrice Alemagna | Winner | |
| 2016 | Adam and Thomas | Aharon Appelfeld | Honor | |
| 2016 | Grandma Lives in a Perfume Village | Fang Suzhen | Honor | |
| 2016 | Written and Drawn by Henrietta | Ricardo Liniers | Honor | |
| 2015 | Mikis and the Donkey | Bibi Dumon Tak | Winner | |
| 2015 | Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust | Loïc Dauvillier | Honor | |
| 2015 | Nine Open Arms | Benny Lindelauf | Honor | |
| 2014 | Mister Orange | Truus Matti | Winner | |
| 2014 | My Father's Arms Are a Boat | Stein Erik Lunde | Honor | |
| 2014 | The Bathing Costume or the Worst Vacation of My Life | Charlotte Moundlic | Honor | |
| 2014 | The War Within These Walls | Aline Sax | Honor | |
| 2013 | My Family for the War | Anne C. Voorhoeve | Winner | |
| 2013 | A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return | Zeina Abirached | Honor | |
| 2013 | Son of a Gun | Anne de Graaf | Honor | |
| 2012 | Soldier Bear | Bibi Dumon Tak | Winner | |
| 2012 | The Lily Pond | Annika Thor | Honor | |
| 2011 | A Time of Miracles | Anne-Laure Bondoux | Winner | |
| 2011 | Departure Time | Truus Matti | Honor | |
| 2011 | Nothing | Janne Teller | Honor | |
| 2010 | A Faraway Island | Annika Thor | Winner | |
| 2010 | Big Wolf and Little Wolf | Nadine Brun-Cosme | Honor | |
| 2010 | Eidi | Bodil Bredsdorff | Honor | |
| 2010 | Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness | Nahoko Uehashi | Honor | |
| 2009 | Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit | Nahoko Uehashi | Winner | |
| 2009 | Garmann's Summer | Stian Hole | Honor | |
| 2009 | Tiger Moon | Antonia Michaelis | Honor | |
| 2008 | Brave Story | Miyuki Miyabe | Winner | |
| 2008 | Nicholas and the Gang | René Goscinny | Honor | |
| 2008 | The Cat: Or, How I Lost Eternity | Jutta Richter | Honor | |
| 2007 | The Pull of the Ocean | Jean-Claude Mourlevat | Winner | |
| 2007 | The Killer's Tears | Anne-Laure Bondoux | Honor | |
| 2007 | The Last Dragon | Silvana De Mari | Honor | |
| 2006 | An Innocent Soldier | Josef Holub | Winner | |
| 2006 | Nicholas | René Goscinny | Honor | |
| 2006 | When I Was a Soldier | Valérie Zenatti | Honor | |
| 2005 | The Shadows of Ghadames | Joëlle Stolz | Winner | |
| 2005 | Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi | David Chotjewitz | Honor | |
| 2005 | The Crow-Girl: The Children of Crow Cove | Bodil Bredsdorff | Honor | |
| 2004 | Run, Boy, Run | Uri Orlev | Winner | |
| 2004 | The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins | Bea Uusma Schyffert | Honor | |
| 2003 | The Thief Lord | Cornelia Funke | Winner | |
| 2003 | Henrietta and the Golden Eggs | Hanna Johansen | Honor | |
| 2002 | How I Became an American | Karin Gündisch | Winner | |
| 2002 | A Book of Coupons | Susie Morgenstern | Honor | |
| 2001 | Samir and Yonatan | Daniella Carmi | Winner | |
| 2001 | Ultimate Game | Christian Lehmann | Honor | |
| 2000 | The Baboon King | Anton Quintana | Winner | |
| 2000 | Asphalt Angels | Ineke Holtwijk | Honor | |
| 2000 | Collector of Moments | Quint Buchholz | Honor | |
| 2000 | Vendela in Venice | Christina Björk | Honor | |
| 1999 | Thanks to My Mother | Schoschana Rabinovici | Winner | |
| 1999 | Secret Letters from 0 to 10 | Susie Morgenstern | Honor | |
| 1998 | The Robber and Me | Josef Holub | Winner | |
| 1998 | Hostage to War: a True Story | Tatjana Wassiljewa | Honor | |
| 1998 | Nero Corleone: a Cat's Story | Elke Heidenreich | Honor | |
| 1997 | The Friends | Kazumi Yumoto | Winner | |
| 1996 | The Lady with the Hat | Uri Orlev | Winner | |
| 1996 | Damned Strong Love: The True Story of Willi G. And Stephan K. | Lutz van Dijk | Honor | |
| 1996 | Star of Fear, Star of Hope | Jo Hoestlandt | Honor | |
| 1995 | The Boys from St. Petri | Bjarne Reuter | Winner | |
| 1995 | Sister Shako and Kolo the Goat: Memories of My Childhood in Turkey | Vedat Dalokay | Honor | |
| 1994 | The Apprentice | Pilar Molina Llorente | Winner | |
| 1994 | Anne Frank Beyond the Diary: A Photographic Remembrance | Ruud van der Rol and Rian Verhoeven | Honor | |
| 1994 | The Princess in the Kitchen Garden | Annemie Heymans and Margriet Heymans | Honor | |
| 1992 | The Man from the Other Side | Uri Orlev | Winner | |
| 1991 | A Hand Full of Stars | Rafik Schami | Winner | |
| 1991 | Two Short and One Long | Nina Ring Aamundsen | Honor | |
| 1990 | Buster's World | Bjarne Reuter | Winner | |
| 1989 | Crutches | Peter Härtling | Winner | |
| 1988 | If You Didn't Have Me | Ulf Nilsson | Winner | |
| 1987 | No Hero for the Kaiser | Rudolph Frank | Winner | |
| 1986 | Rose Blanche | Christophe Gallaz and Roberto Innocenti | Winner | |
| 1985 | The Island on Bird Street | Uri Orlev | Winner | |
| 1984 | Ronia the Robber's Daughter | Astrid Lindgren | Winner | |
| 1983 | Hiroshima No Pika | Toshi Maruki | Winner | |
| 1982 | The Battle Horse | Harry Kullman | Winner | |
| 1981 | The Winter When Time Was Frozen | Els Pelgrom | Winner | |
| 1980 | The Sound of the Dragon's Feet | Alki Zei | Winner | |
| 1979 | Konrad | Christine Nöstlinger | Winner | |
| 1979 | Rabbit Island | Jörg Steiner | Winner | |
| 1977 | The Leopard | Cecil Bødker | Winner | |
| 1976 | The Cat and Mouse Who Shared a House | Ruth Hürlimann | Winner | |
| 1975 | An Old Tale Carved Out of Stone | A. Linevskii | Winner | |
| 1974 | Petros' War | Alki Zei | Winner | |
| 1973 | Pulga | S. R. Van Iterson | Winner | |
| 1972 | Friedrich | Hans Peter Richter | Winner | |
| 1971 | In the Land of Ur, the Discovery of Ancient Mesopotamia | Hans Baumann | Winner | |
| 1970 | Wildcat Under Glass | Alki Zei | Winner | |
| 1969 | Don't Take Teddy | Babbis Friis-Baastad | Winner | |
| 1968 | The Little Man | Erich Kästner | Winner |
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