Lloyd Alexander's Awards and Honors

Lloyd Alexander received the following honors (award names without specific books mentioned are for contributions to children’s literature or to fiction) [3,9]:

• National Jewish Book Award (1959) for Border Hawk: August Bondi
• John Newbury Honor Medal (1966) for The Black Cauldron
• John Newbury Medal (1969) for The High King
• National Book Award for Juvenile Literature (1970) for The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian
• The Drexel Award (1972)
• Boston Globe-Horn Honors for Fiction (1973)
• Pennsylvania School Librarians Award (1976)
• CRABbery Award (1979) for The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha
• Silver Slate Pencil Award (1981, The Netherlands) for The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha (translation)
• American Book Award (1982) for the Westmark series
• Parent’s Choice Award (1982) for The Kestrel
• Keystone State Reading Association Award (1982)
• Austrian Children’s Book Award (1984, Austria) for The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha (translation)
• Golden Cat Award (1984, Sweden)
• Catholic Library Association’s Regina Medal (1986)
• Helen Keating Ott Award from the Church and Synagogue Library Association (1987)
• Pennsylvania Library Association’s Carolyn W. Field Medal (1987)
• Norwegian Children’s Book Prize (1987, Norway) for The Town Cats
• World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award (2003)
• Parent's Choice Lifetime Achievement Award (2003)