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The Council on Interracial Books for Children is founded to promote nonwhite authors through book reviews, awards, and other tactics. [6] 1966. Nichelle Nichols is cast as a female black officer on television's Star Trek. 1967. The first Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for excellence in children's and young adult literature is presented. 1969
The International Day of the African Child, [1] also known as the Day of the African Child (DAC), [2] [3] has been celebrated on June 16 every year since 1991, when it was first initiated by the OAU Organisation of African Unity. [1] It honors those who participated in the Soweto Uprising in 1976 on that day.
The C.P. Hoogenhout Award is awarded since 1960 to recognize the best original Afrikaans book for children between seven and twelve years of age. The South African Library Association instituted the prize for the best children's picture book. [2] In earlier years the prize was awarded annually, but since 1982 it is awarded every two years.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (USA) – since 1957; Nienke van Hichtum-prijs (Netherlands) – since 1964; Guardian Award (UK) – since 1967; Sydney Taylor Book Award for Jewish children's and teen literature – since 1968; Coretta Scott King Award for African-American Literature (USA) – since 1970; Tir na n-Og Awards (Wales ...
The Coretta Scott King Award is an annual award presented by the Coretta Scott King Book Award Round Table, part of the American Library Association (ALA). Named for Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King Jr., this award recognizes outstanding books for young adults and children by African Americans that reflect the African American experience.
Established in July 2008, [2] the Golden Baobab Prize is an African literary award that aims to encourage the writing of African literature for children and young adults. Its mission is to identify African literary giants of the next generation and produce classic African stories that will be appreciated for years to come.
The National Book Foundation awards winners in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature and young people’s literature. This year, publishers submitted a total of 1,917 books.
The MER Prizes, named after Afrikaans children's author Mimie E. Rothmann, are longstanding awards which recognise illustrated children's books and youth literature, aimed at (but not exclusively for) ages 0–8 and 8–16 respectively. [3] The prize in the children's category is split between the author and the illustrator.