Awards and Reading Lists serve to recognize and honor
a book for its contribution to literature. Thera are many types of awards. When
books are given an award or included in a list it is because they exemplified
literary excellence in a certain genre, category, or format. The Printz Award
is sponsored by Booklist and is awarded for literary excellence in Young Adult
Literature. The Nonfiction Award honors the best nonfiction books published.
There are countless awards and lists, like the
Caldecott, Bluebonnet, ALEX, Morris, Edwards, Pura Belpre, NCTE, Sibert, and
Stonewall Awards that all are given to deserving books. The lists include Lone
Star, TAYSHAS, Maverick Reading, and others. As a reader, teacher and librarian
it is important to be able to know the different type of awards, the reason
they are awarded, their history, their seals and formats in order to assist
students better and make recommendation of books based on merits.
This chapter was filled with the names of awards and
lists. It is important to have that foundational knowledge on the awards in
literature and the reason lists are important. As a future librarian, I understand
that a big part of the job is to understand its history, so that when you are
tasked to evaluate literature you can confidently do it.
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