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Batchelder Award
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The Mildred L. Batchelder Award is given each year by the American Library Association
to honor the most outstanding children's book originally published in a foreign language
and then translated into English and published in the United States.
More information about the Batchelder Award.

Call numbers for the Duluth Public Library are in ( )
Titles are linked to the Duluth Public Library catalog

2010:
A Faraway Island by Annika Thor 
(Juv Fic  Thor)		 Honor Books:
Big Wolf and Little Wolf by Nadine Brun-Cosme ( j )
Eidi by Bodil Bredsdorff (Juv Fic  Bredsdorff)
Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness by Nahoko Uehashi (YA Fic SF  Uehashi)
2009:
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit by Nahoko Uehashi (YA Fic SF  Uehashi)		 Honor Books:
Garmann's Summer by Stian Hole ( j )
Tiger Moon by Antonia Michaelis (YA Fic SF  Michaelis)
2008:
Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe  (YA Fic SF  Miyabe)		 Honor Books:
The Cat: Or, How I Lost Eternity by Jutta Richter  (Juv Fic SF)
Nicholas and the Gang by Rene Goscinny (Juv Fic  Goscinny)
2007:
The Pull of the Ocean by Jean-Claude Mourlevat  (YA Fic  Mourlevat)		 Honor Books:
The Killer's Tears by Anne-Laure Bondoux  (YA Fic  Bondoux)
The Last Dragon by Silvana De Mari (Juv Fic SF  De Mari)
2006:
An Innocent Soldier by Josef Holub  (YA Fic  Holub)		 Honor Books:
Nicholas by Rene Goscinny (Juv Fic  Goscinny)
When I was a Soldier by Valerie Zenatti  (YA 921 Z43AAw)
2005:
The Shadows of Ghadames by Joelle Stolz  (Juv Fic  Stolz)		 Honor Books:
The Crow Girl: The Children of Crow Cove by Bodil Bredsdorff
(Juv Fic  Bredsdorff)
Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi by David Chotjewitz (YA Fic  Chotjewitz)
2004:
Run, Boy, Run by Uri Orlev  (Juv Fic Orlev)		 Honor Books:
The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story
of Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins by Bea Uusma
Schyffert (j629.454  Schyffert)
 2003:
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke  (Juv Fic Funke)		  Honor Books:
Henrietta and the Golden Eggs by Hanna Johansen ( j )
2002:
How I Became an American by Karin Gündisch  (Juv Fic  Gündisch )		 Honor Books:
A Book of Coupons by Susie Morgenstern (Juv Fic  Morgenstern)
2001:
Samir and Yonatan by Daniella Carmi  (Juv Fic  Carmi)		 Honor Books:
Ultimate Game by Christian Lehmann
2000:
The Baboon King by Anton Quintana  (YA Fic  Quintana)		 Honor Books:
Collector of Moments by Quint Buchholz (Juv Fic  Buchholz)
Vendela in Venice by Christina Björk (Juv Fic  Björk)
Asphalt Angels by Ineke Holtwijk (YA Fic  Holtwijk)
1999:
Thanks to My Mother by Schoschana Rabinovici  (YA 940.5318  Rabinovici)		 Honor Book:
Secret Letters from 0 to 10 by Susie Morgenstern (Juv Fic  Morgenstern)
1998:
The Robber and Me by Josef Holub  (Juv Fic  Holub)		 Honor Books:
Hostage to War: a True Story by Tatjana Wassiljewa (j940.5316  Wassiljewa)
Nero Corleone: a Cat's Story by Elke Heidenrich (Juv Fic  Heidenrich)
1997:
THE FRIENDS by Kazumi Yumoto 		.
1996:
THE LADY WITH THE HAT by Uri Orlev 		Honor Books:
Damned Strong Love: The True Story of Willi G. and Stephan
K. by Lutz Van Dijk (YA Fic  Van Dijk )
Star of Fear, Star of Hope by Jo Hoestlandt ( j )
1995:
THE BOYS FROM ST. PETRI by Bjarne Reuter 		Honor Books:
Sister Shako and Kolo the Goat: Memories of My Childhood in Turkey by Vedat Dalokay
1994:
The Apprentice by Pilar Molina Llorente  (Juv Fic  Molina Llorente)		 Honor Books:
Anne Frank Beyond the Diary: A Photographic
Remembrance by Ruud van der Rol and Rian Verhoeven (j940.53  van der Rol)
The Princess in the Kitchen Garden by Annemie & Margriet Heymans (Juv Fic  Heymans)
1993:
(no award given)		 .
1992:
The Man from the Other Side by Uri Orlev  (Juv Fic  Orlev)		 .
1991:
A Hand Full of Stars by Rafik Schami  (YA Fic  Schami)		 .
1990:
BUSTER'S WORLD by Bjarne Reuter 		.
1989:
CRUTCHES by Peter Härtling 		.
1988:
IF YOU DIDN'T HAVE ME by Ulf Nilsson 		.
1987:
NO HERO FOR THE KAISER by Rudolph Frank		 .
1986:
Rose Blanche by Christophe Gallaz & Robert Innocenti  (j940.5318  Innocenti)		 .
1985:
The Island on Bird Street by Uri Orlev  (Juv Fic  Orlev)		 .
1984:
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren  (Juv Fic  Lindgren)		 .
1983:
Hiroshima No Pika by Toshi Maruki  (j940.542  Maruki)		 .
1982:
THE BATTLE HORSE by Harry Kullman		 .
1981:
THE WINTER WHEN TIME WAS FROZEN by Els Pelgrom 		.
1980:
THE SOUND OF THE DRAGON'S FEET by Aliki Zei		 .
1979:
RABBIT ISLAND by Jörg Steiner
KONRAD by Christine Nöstlinger		 .
1978:
(no award given)  		 .
1977:
THE LEOPARD by Cecil Bødker		 .
1976:
THE CAT AND MOUSE WHO SHARED A HOUSE by Ruth Hürlimann		 .
1975:
AN OLD TALE CARVED OUT OF STONE by A. Linevskii		 .
1974:
PETROS' WAR by Aliki Zei		 .
1973:
PULGA by S. R. Van Iterson		 .
1972:
Friedrich by Hans Peter Richter  (Juv Fic  Richter)		 .
1971:
IN THE LAND OF UR, THE DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA by Hans Baumann		 .
1970:
WILDCAT UNDER GLASS by Aliki Zei		 .
1969:
DON'T TAKE TEDDY by Babbis Friis-Baastad		 .
1968:
The Little Man by Erich Kästner
(Juv Fic  Kästner)		 .

 

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