Charlotte Huck Award

The Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children, established in 2014 and organized by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), is an annual American literary award for children's fiction books. According to NCTE, the "award recognizes fiction that has the potential to transform children’s lives by inviting compassion, imagination, and wonder."[1]

The award honors Charlotte Huck, a former NCTE president[2] and American author, university professor, and children's literature expert. Huck, who taught elementary school before joining the Faculty of Education at the Ohio State University, "believed that good literature should be at the heart and center of the elementary school curriculum."[3][4] Given this belief, she established the university's first course in children's literature and eventually "develop[ed] master's and doctoral programs in children's literature."[3][4]

  1. ^ "Charlotte Huck Award®". National Council of Teachers of English. Archived from the original on 2023-02-06. Retrieved 2023-06-18.
  2. ^ "Obituary: Bernice Cullinan". Publishers Weekly. 2015-02-19. Archived from the original on 2020-08-22. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
  3. ^ a b Dawes, Erika Thulin; Acevedo-Aquino, Maria V.; Andrus, Patrick; Barger, Bettie Parsons; Bulatowicz, Donna; Cueto, Desiree W.; Hahn, Mary Lee (2019). "2019 Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children". Language Arts. 97 (2): 105–112. doi:10.58680/la201930341. ISSN 0360-9170. JSTOR 26835009. S2CID 259383188.
  4. ^ a b Dawes, Erika Thulin; Acevedo-Aquino, Maria V.; Barger, Bettie Parsons; Cueto, Desiree W.; Lee Hahn, Mary; Herbeck, Joyce; Ross, Stacey (2018). "2018 Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children". Language Arts. 96 (2): 119–126. doi:10.58680/la201829849. ISSN 0360-9170. JSTOR 26779044.