The Mildred L. Batchelder Award, or Batchelder Award, is an American Library Association literary award that annually recognizes the publisher of the year's "most outstanding" children's book translated into English and published in the U.S. It is administered by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), the children's division of ALA, and conferred upon the U.S. publisher. The Batchelder Award was inaugurated in 1968 and there have been 47 winners in 48 years through 2015. From 1994 there have been 38 worthy runners-up called Honor Books, one to three each year.