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The Mildred L. Batchelder Award 2013

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The Mildred L. Batchelder Award 2013

The Mildred L. Batchelder Award 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 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 MY FAMILY FOR THE WAR written by Anne C. Voorhoeve, translated by Tammi Reichel.

-Two Mildred L. Batchelder Award Honor Book was named: A GAME FOR SWALLOWS: To Die, to Leave, to Return written and illustrated by Zeina Abirached, translated by Edward Gauvin and SON OF A GUN written and translated by Anne de Graaf.