Association for Library Service to Children
The Batchelder Award was named in honor of twetieth-century American librarian Mildred L. Batchelder.  The Batchelder Award is unusual in that it is given to a publisher, yet explicitly references a given work, its translator and author. It seeks to recognize translations of children's books into the English language, with the intention of encouraging American publishers to translate high quality foreign language children's books and "promote communication between the people of the world".