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 MISTER ORANGE. by Truus Matti, translated by Laura Watkinson

- Three Batchelder Honor Books also were selected: THE BATHING COSTUME OR THE WORST VACATION OF MY LIFE by Charlotte Moundlic, illustrated by Olivier Tallec, translated by Claudia Zoe Bedrick; MY FATHER'S ARMS ARE A BOAT by Stein Erik Lunde, illustrated by Øyvind Torseter, translated by Kari Dickson; and THE WAR WITHIN THESE WALLS by Aline Sax, illustrated by Caryl Strzelecki and translated by Laura Watkinson.