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