🥇 Batchelder Medalists 🥇
A Branch of August's Bookshelf

Selected children's titles from the National Emergency Library,
via archive.org, freely available with the use of a virtual library card

Curated by Jim Cocola, Associate Head for the Humanities, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

📚🌎🌍🌏🥇 Batchelder Medalists🥇🌏🌎🌍📚

American Library Association award "to a United States publisher
for a children’s book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originating
in a country other than the United States and in a language other than English and subsequently
translated into English for publication in the United States during the preceding year."

2014: Mister Orange by Truus Matti translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson (Enchanted Lion Books)	2011: A Time of Miracles by Anne-Laure Bondoux translated from the French by Y. Maudet (Delacorte Press / Dell)	2010: A Faraway Island by Annika Thor translated from the Swedish by Linda Schenck (Delacorte Press / Dell)

2009: Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit by Nahoko Uehashi translated from the Japanese by Cathy Hirano (Arthur A. Levine Books)	2008: Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe translated from the Japanese by Alexander O. Smith (VIZ Media)	2007: The Pull of the Ocean by Jean-Claude Mourlevat translated from the French by Y. Maudet (Delacorte Press / Dell)

2005: The Shadows of Ghadames by Joëlle Stolz translated from the French by Catherine Temerson (Delacorte Press / Dell)	2003: The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke translated from the German by Oliver Latsch (The Chicken House / Scholastic)	2002: How I Became an American by Karin Gündisch translated from the German by James Skofield (Cricket Books / Carus Publishing)

2001: Samir and Yonatan by Daniella Carmi translated from the Hebrew by Yael Lotan (Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic)	2000: The Baboon King by Anton Quintana translated from the Dutch by John Nieuwenhuizen (Walker and Company)	1999: Thanks to My Mother by Schoschana Rabinovici translated from the German by James Skofield (Dial Press)

1998: The Robber and Me by Josef Holub translated from the German by Elizabeth D. Crawford (Henry Holt & Co)	1997: The Friends by Kazumi Yumoto translated from the Japanese by Cathy Hirano (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)	1994: The Apprentice by Pilar Molina Llorente translated from the Spanish by Robin Longshaw (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

1990: Buster's World by Bjarne Reuter translated from the Danish by Anthea Bell Danish (E. P. Dutton)	1989: Crutches by Peter Härtling translated from the German by Elizabeth D. Crawford (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard)	1988: If You Didn't Have Me by Ulf Nilsson translated from the Swedish by George Blecher and Lone Thygesen Blecher (McElderry Books)

1986: Rose Blanche by Christophe Gallaz and Robert Innocenti translated from the Italian by Martha Coventry and Richard Craglia (Creative Education)	1985: The Island on Bird Street by Uri Orlev translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin (Houghton Mifflin)	1984: Ronia the Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren translated from the Swedish by Patricia Crampton (Viking Press)

1983: Hiroshima No Pika by Toshi Maruki translated from the Japanese by Kurita-Bando Literary Agency (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard)	1982: The Battle Horse by Harry Kullman translated from the Swedish by George Blecher and Lone Thygesen Blecher (Bradbury Press)	1981: The Winter When Time Was Frozen by Els Pelgrom translated from the Dutch by Maryka and Raphael Rudnik (William Morrow)

1977: The Leopard by Cecil Bødker translated from the Danish by Gunnar Poulsen (Atheneum)	1974: Petros' War by Alki Zei translated from the Greek by Edward Fenton (Dutton)	1973: Pulga by S. R. Van Iterson translated from the Dutch by Alexander and Alison Gode (William Morrow)

1972: Friedrich by Hans Peter Richter translated from the German by Edite Kroll (Holt, Rinehart & Winston)	1970: Wildcat Under Glass by Alki Zei translated from the Greek by Edward Fenton (Holt, Rinehart & Winston)	1968: The Little Man by Erich Kästner translated from the German by James Kirkup (Knopf)