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Mildred L. Batchelder Award 2012

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Mildred L. Batchelder Award 2012

The Mildred L. Batchelder Awardis a citation awarded to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a language other than English in a country other than the United States, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States.

-The winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder Award is SOLDIER BEAR written by Bibi Dumon Tak, illustrated by Philip Hepman, translated by Laura Watkinson.

-One Mildred L. Batchelder Award Honor Book was named: THE LILY POND written by Annika Thor, translated by Linda Schenck.

The Lily Pond by Annika Thor - Historical Fiction