Award-Winning Children's Books

California Young Reader Award

Caldecott Medal

Coretta Scott King Award

John & Patricia Beatty Award

Michael L. Printz Award

Newbery Award

Pura Belpré Award

The John & Patricia Beatty Award Winners

The California Library Association (CLA)'s John and Patricia Beatty Award honors the author of a distinguished book for children or young adults that best promotes an awareness of California and its people.

A committee of CLA members selects the winning title from books published in the United States during the preceding year. Patricia Beatty donated the initial cash endowment for the Award which now honors both her husband, John Beatty, who served as professor of English history and humanities at the University of California at Riverside prior to his death in 1975, and Patricia herself who died in 1991. Together the Beattys wrote eleven books of fiction for young readers; Patricia Beatty wrote numerous other books for young people, of which many have California or western settings.

2010s | 2000s | 1990s | 1980s

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2010s

One Day and One Amazing Morning on Orange Street by Joanne Rocklin

Year of Award: 2012

Vinyl Princess by Yvonne Prinz

Year of Award: 2011

Operation Redwood by S. Terrell French

Year of Award: 2010

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2000s

Steinbeck's Ghost by Lewis Buzbee

Year of Award: 2009

Letters from the Corrugated Castle: A Novel of Gold Rush California 1850-1852 by Joan W. Blos

Year of Award: 2008

Julia Morgan Built a Castle by Celeste Davidson Mannis

Year of Award: 2007

 

Balloon Boy of San Francisco by Dorothy Kupcha Leland

Year of Award: 2006

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko

Year of Award: 2005

 

Cecil Poole, a Life in the Law by James Haskins

Year of Award: 2004

Ansel Adams, America's Photographer by Beverly Gherman

Year of Award: 2003

Any Small Goodness by Tony Johnston

Year of Award: 2002

Hurry Freedom: African Americans in the Gold Rush by Jerry Stanley

Year of Award: 2001

The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party by Marian Calabro

Year of Award: 2000

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1990s

Bandit's Moon by Sid Fleischman

Year of Award: 1999

The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child by Francisco Jimenez

Year of Award: 1998

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple by Karen Cushman

Year of Award: 1997

 

Summer on Wheels by Gary Soto

Year of Award: 1996

Cat Running by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Year of Award: 1995

Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep

Year of Award: 1994

Children of the Dust Bowl by Jerry Stanley

Year of Award: 1993

Sierra by Diane Siebert

Year of Award: 1992

Baseball in April and Other Stories by Gary Soto

Year of Award: 1991

 

Great American Gold Rush by Rhoda Blumberg

Year of Award: 1990

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1980s

Chang's Paper Pony by Eleanor Coerr

Year of Award: 1989

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