Mildred L. Batchelder Award

Mildred L. Batchelder

Criteria

• The award shall be made 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 published in English in the United States during the preceding year.
• The Award, in the form of a citation, shall be made annually, unless no book of that particular year is deemed worthy of the honor. The translation should be true to original work and retain the viewpoint of the author.
• The translation should reflect the style of the author and of the original language.
• The book should not be unduly "Americanized." The book's reader should be able to sense that the book came from another country.
• Folk literature is not eligible.
• Picture books are not eligible unless the text is substantial and at least as important as the pictures.
• The book must have the potential to appeal to a child audience.
• The overall design of the book should enhance and not detract from the text, thus making the book more or less effective as a children's book. Such aspects might include: illustration, type face, layout, book jacket, etc.
• Consideration should be given to the retention of the original illustrator's work in the U.S. edition.

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