Lloyd Alexander's Awards and Honors
In addition to some of his books being finalists for national awards, 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 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)