Written and Illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh. Feathered Serpent and the Five Suns: A Mesoamerican Creation Myth.Across the Rainbow Bridge: Stories of Norse Gods and Humans.Translated from Danish by Charlotte Barslund. The Man of the Moon: And Other Stories from Greenland.A Bedtime Full of Stories: 50 Folk Tales and Legends from Around the World.Blancaflor, The Hero with Secret Powers: A Folktale from Latin America.Folklore sources must be fully acknowledged and annotations referenced within the bound contents of the publication.The book should reflect the high artistic standards of the best of children’s literature and have strong appeal to the child reader.The reader’s understanding of folklore should be enhanced by the book, as should the book be enhanced by the presence of folklore.The folklore presented in the book should accurately reflect the culture and worldview of the people whose folklore is the focus of the book.Folklore should be central to the book’s content and, if appropriate, to its illustrations.The Accolades were first awarded in 1993. Winners are announced at the annual meeting of the American Folklore Society each October. The Prize and the Accolades are for books published in the previous two years.

The Aesop Prize and Aesop Accolades are conferred annually by the Children’s Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society upon English language books for children and young adults, both fiction and nonfiction.

Annie's Gifts by Angela Shelf Medearis