Series K
Sheila Hamanaka: American Book Award
Karla Kuskin: NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children
Leo Lionni: Caldecott Honor
Eve Merriam: NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children, Obie Award
Alice Schertle: Christopher Award, Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award
Margot Zemach: Caldecott Medal
Series 1
Maribeth Boelts: ASPCA Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award, Humane Society KIND Children’s Picture Book Award
Marcia Brown: Caldecott Medal, Children’s Literature Legacy Award (formerly Wilder Medal), Regina Medal
Joseph Bruchac: American Book Award, Jane Addams Children’s Book Award, Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award, Parents’ Choice Award, Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile Fiction
Russell Hoban: Costa Book Award (formerly Whitbread Award), John W. Campbell Memorial Award
Betsy James: Tiptree Award Honor List
Kimiko Kajikawa: Christopher Award
Daniel Pinkwater: American Library Association Notable Children’s Book, Parents’ Choice Award
Theodore Roethke: Bollingen Prize for Poetry, National Book Award for Poetry, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Series 2
James Berry: Cholmondeley Award
Andrea Davis Pinkney: Medgar Evers College Lifetime Achievement Award
Daniel Pinkwater: American Library Association Notable Children’s Book, Parents’ Choice Award
Ethel Pochocki: Katahdin Award, Lupine Award
Harriet Rohmer: American Book Award, American Library Association Notable Children’s Book
Cynthia Rylant: Newbery Medal
Margery Williams: Newbery Medal
Series 3
Alma Flor Ada: Belpré Medal for Narrative
Katherine Applegate: Golden Kite Award for Fiction, Newbery Medal
Jennifer Armstrong: Golden Kite Honor for Fiction, NCTE Orbis Pictus Award
Sid Fleischman: Newbery Medal, Parents’ Choice Award, SCBWI Humor Award (renamed the Sid Fleischman Humor Award in his honor)
Juan Felipe Herrera: American Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
Ethel Pochocki: Katahdin Award, Lupine Award
Patricia Polacco: Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Text
Diane Wolkstein: National Storytelling Network Lifetime Achievement Award
Series 4
Natalie Savage Carlson: Newbery Honor
Harold Courlander: Newbery Honor
Jane Cutler: Paterson Prize for Books for Young People, Zena Sutherland Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature
Gail E. Haley: Caldecott Medal, CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal
Langston Hughes: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction, the Langston Hughes Medal is awarded by the City College of New York in his honor, Spingarn Medal
Shelley Jackson: Tiptree Award
Lois Lowry: Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers’ Literature, Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award, Golden Kite Award for Fiction, National Jewish Book Award for Children’s Literature, Newbery Medal, Regina Medal
Jacqueline Briggs Martin: Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Text
Norma Fox Mazer: Newbery Honor, Edgar Award for Best Juvenile
Philippa Pearce: CILIP Carnegie Medal
Isaac Bashevis Singer: American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, National Book Award for Children’s Books, National Book Award for Fiction, Newbery Honor, Nobel Prize in Literature, Raven Award
Gary Soto: American Book Award, Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children’s Video
Jane Yolen: Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers’ Literature, Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, Edward E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction, Golden Kite Award for Fiction, Nebula Award for Best Novelette, Nebula Award for Best Short Story, Regina Medal, World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award
Series 5
Ray Bradbury: Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award, Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, Emmy Award, Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, National Medal of Arts, Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award, Ross Macdonald Literary Award, World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award
Harold Courlander: Newbery Honor
Shirley Jackson: Edgar Award for Best Short Story, O. Henry Prize
Tove Jansson: Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing, Selma Lagerlöf Prize
Richard Peck: Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers’ Literature, Edgar Award for Best Juvenile, Margaret A. Edwards Award, National Humanities Medal, Newbery Medal, Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction
Cynthia Rylant: Newbery Medal
Richard Wilbur: American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry, Bollingen Prize for Poetry, National Book Award for Poetry, New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Musical, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Robert Frost Medal, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, US poet laureate, Wallace Stevens Award