Batchelder

The Mildred L. Batchelder Award

The Mildred L. Batchelder Award, established 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. ALSC gives the award to encourage American publishers to seek out superior children's books abroad and to promote communication among the peoples of the world.

	2008 Miyuki Miyabe. Brave Story Young Wataru Mitani's life is a mess. His father has abandoned him and his mother has been hospitalized after a suicide attempt. Desperately he searches for some way to change his life; a way to alter his fate. To achieve his goal, he must navigate the magical world of Vision, a land filled with creatures both fierce and friendly.
	2007 Claude Mourlevat. Pull of the Ocean Loosely based on Charles Perrault's "Tom Thumb," seven brothers in modern-day France flee their poor parents' farm, led by the youngest who, although mute and unusually small, is exceptionally wise.
	2006 Josef Holub. An Innocent Soldier A sixteen-year-old farmhand is tricked into fighting in the Napoleonic Wars by the farmer for whom he works, who secretly substitutes him for the farmer's own son.
	2005 Joelle Stolz. The Shadows of Ghadames At the end of the nineteenth century in Libya, eleven-year-old Malika simultaneously enjoys and feels constricted by the narrow world of women, but an injured stranger enters her home and disrupts the traditional order of things.
	2004 Uri Orlev. Run, Boy, Run Srulik is only eight years old when he finds himself all alone in the Warsaw ghetto. He escapes into the countryside where he spends the ensuing years hiding in the forest, dependent on the sympathies and generosity of the poor farmers in the surrounding area.
	2003 Cornelia Funke. The Thief Lord Two brothers, having run away from the aunt who plans to adopt the younger one, are sought by a detective hired by their aunt, but they have found shelter with--and protection from--Venice's " Thief Lord."
	2002 Karin Gundisch. How I Became an American In 1902, ten-year-old Johann and his family, Germans who had been living in Austria-Hungary, board a ship to immigrate to Youngstown, Ohio, where they make a new life as Americans.
	2001 Daniella Carmi. Samir and Yonatan Samir , a Palestinian boy, is sent for surgery to an Israeli hospital where he has two otherworldly experiences, making friends with an Israeli boy, Yonatan , and traveling with him to Mars where Samir finds peace about his brother's death in the war.
	2000 Anton Quintana. The Baboon King Son of a Kikuyu mother and a Masai herdsman father, Morengaru the hunter lives on the edges of tribal society until an actual banishment forces him to make a life for himself among a troop of baboons.
	1999 Schoschana Rabinovici. Thanks to My Mother After struggling to survive in Nazi-occupied Lithuania, a young Jewish girl and her mother endure much suffering in Kaiserwald, Stutthof, and Tauentzien concentration camps and on an eleven-day death march before being liberated by the Russian army.
	1998 Josef Holub. The Robber and Me Because he knows that the man accused of robbery is innocent, an eleven-year-old orphan struggles to find the courage to reveal the truth to his uncle in their small German village in 1867.
	1997 Kazumi Yumoto. The Friends Curious about death, three sixth-grade boys decide to spy on an old man waiting for him to die, but they end up becoming his friends.
	1996 Uri Orlev. The Lady with the Hat In 1947, seventeen-year-old Yulek, the only member of his immediate family to survive the German concentration camps, joins a group of young Jews preparing to live on a kibbutz in Israel, unaware that his aunt living in London is looking for him.
	1995 Bjarne Reuter. The Boys from St. Petri In 1942, a group of young men begin a series of increasingly dangerous protests against the German invaders of their Danish homeland.
	1994 Pilar Molina. The Apprentice Working as an artist's apprentice in Renaissance Florence, thirteen-year-old Arduino makes a discovery which may cost him the chance to become a painter.
	1993 - No award given.
	1992 Uri Orlev. The Man from the Other Side Living on the outskirts of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, fourteen-year-old Marek and his grandparents shelter a Jewish man in the days before the Jewish uprising.
	1991 Rafik Schami. A Hand Full of Stars A teenager who wants to be a journalist in a suppressed society describes to his diary his daily life in his hometown of Damascus, Syria.
	1990 Bjarne Reuter. Buster's World
	1989 Peter Hartling. Crutches A young boy, searching vainly for his mother in post-war Vienna, is befriended by a man on crutches and together they find hope for the future.
	1988 Ulf Nilsson. If You Didn't Have Me Spending most of a year with relatives on a farm in southern Sweden while his parents are busy building a new house in town, a young boy finds inner strengths and unexpected sources of entertainment.
	1987 Rudolf Frank. No Hero for the Kaiser Jan, a fourteen-year-old Polish boy whose town is invaded in World War I, joins a German battalion and experiences the horrors of battle.
	1986 Christophe Gallaz & Robert Innocenti. Rose Blanche
	1985 Uri Orlev. The Island on Bird Street During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions.
	1984 Astrid Lindgren. Ronia, the Robber's Daughter Ronia , who lives with her father and his band of robbers in a castle in the woods, causes trouble when she befriends the son of a rival robber chieftain.
	1983 Toshi Maruki. Hiroshima No Pika A retelling of a mother's account of what happened to her family during the Flash that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.
	1982 Harry Kullman. The Battle Horse
	1981 Els Pelgrom. The Winter When Time Was Frozen
	1980 Alki Zei. The Sound of the Dragon's Feet The time spent with her "revolutionary" tutor opens 10-year-old Sasha's eyes to more of life in turn-of-the-century Russia than her somewhat sheltered existence had previously allowed her to experience.
	1979 - Two awards given. Jorg Steiner. Rabbit Island
	1979 - Two awards given. Christine Nostlinger. Konrad
	1978 - No award given.
	1977 Cecil Bodker. The Leopard
	1976 Ruth Hurlimann. The Cat and Mouse Who Shared a House
	1975 A. Linevskii. An Old Tale Carved Out of Stone
	1974 Alki Zei. Petros' War
	1973 S. R. Van Iterson. Pulga
	1972 Hans Peter Richter. Friedrich
	1971 Hans Baumann. In the Land of Ur, the Discovery of Ancient Mesopotamia
	1970 Aliki Zei. Wildcat Under Glass
	1969 Babbis Friis-Baastad. Don't Take Teddy
	1968 Erich Kastner. The Little Man