Lewis Carroll Shelf Award

The Lewis Carroll Shelf Award was given from 1958 to 1979 to books that were of the same quality as Alice in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) and were worthy of standing next to them on the bookshelf.

Award winners (selection)

• 1960: Leonard Leslie Brooke for Johnny Crow's Garden *
• 1962: Leo Lionni for Inch by Inch (German piece by piece )
• 1964: Maurice Sendak for Where the Wild Things Are (dt. Where the wild things are )
• 1965: Joan Aiken for The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (German wolves around the castle )
• 1966: Marcia Brown for Once a Mouse… A Fable Cut in Wood
• 1968: Ed Emberley for drummer Hoff
• 1970: Astrid Lindgren for Tomte Tummetott
• 1971: Mary Steele for Journey Outside
• 1972: Virginia Hamilton for The Planet of Junior Brown (Eng. The Planet of Patrick Brown )
• 1973: Nancy Ekholm Burkert for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: A Fairy Tale by the Brothers Grimm (German Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs )
• 1978: Katherine Paterson for Bridge to Terabithia (Eng. The Bridge to Terabithia )
• 1978: Norma Fox Mazer for Dear Bill, Remember Me? And Other Stories (dt. Dear Bill, remember? And other stories )
• 1979: Ursula K. Le Guin for A Wizard of Earthsea (German: The Magician of the Earth Sea )

* Posthumously awarded

literature

• Laura Carlson, Sean Creighton, Sheila Cunningham (Eds.): Literary laurels: a reader's guide to award-winning children's books. Hillyard, 1996, ISBN 978-0-9647361-1-5 , pp. 25-34.