Mildred L. Batchelder Award 2017
Awards
Mildred L. Batchelder Award 2017
This award, established in Mildred L. Batchelder's honor in 1966, is 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 foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States. The award is administered by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association.
- The winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder Award is CRY, HEART, BUT NEVER BREAK is the 2017 Batchelder Award winner. Originally published in Danish in 2001 as “Græd blot hjerte,” the book was written by Glenn Ringtved, illustrated by Charolotte Pardi, translated by Robert Moulthrop and published by Enchanted Lion Books.
- Three Batchelder Honor Books also were selected: OVER THE OCEAN, published by Chronicle Books LLC, written and illustrated by Taro Gomi and translated from the Japanese by Taylor Norman; AS TIME WENT BY, published by NorthSouth Books, Inc., written and illustrated by José Sanabria and translated from the German by Audrey Hall; and THE BALLAD OF A BROKEN NOSE published by Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, written by Arne Svingen and translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson.
