Also see the Caldecott Medal and the Newbery Medal winnners.
| 2000 Coretta Scott King Awards, honoring black authors and illustrators: | (author): |
| Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte Press); |
| (illustrator): |
| In the Time of the Drums, Brian Pinkney (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children) |
| 2000 Coretta Scott King Honor Books: | (author): |
| Francie, Karen English (Farrar Straus Giroux); |
| Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers, Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack (Scholastic Press); |
| Monster, Walter Dean Myers (HarperCollins); |
| (illustrator): |
| My Rows and Piles of Coins, E. B. Lewis (Clarion Books); |
| Black Cat, Christopher Myers (Scholastic Press) |
| 2000 Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature for young adults: | Monster, Walter Dean Myers (HarperCollins) |
| 2000 Michael L. Printz Honor Books: | Hard Love, Ellen Wittlinger (Simon & Schuster); |
| Skellig, David Almond (Delacorte Press); |
| Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson (Farrar Straus Giroux) |
| 2000 Pura Belpré Awards, honoring Latino writers and illustrators (awarded biennially): | (author): |
| Under the Royal Palms: A Childhood in Cuba, Alma Flor Ada (Atheneum Books); |
| (illustrator): |
| Magic Windows: Cut-paper Art and Stories, illustrated and written by Carmen Lomas Garza (Children's Book Press) |
| 2000 Pura Belpré Honor Awards: | (author): |
| From the Bellybutton of the Moon and Other Summer Poems/Del Ombligo De La Luna Y Otro Poemas De Verano, written by Francisco X. Alarcón , illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez (Children's Book Press); |
| Laughing Out Loud, I Fly: Poems in English and Spanish, written by Juan Felipe Herrera, illustrated by Karen Barbour (HarperCollins); |
| (illustrator): |
| Barrio: José's Neighborhood, illustrated and written by George Ancona (Harcourt Brace); |
| The Secret Stars, illustrated by Felipe Dávalos, written by Joseph Slate (Marshall Cavendish); |
| Mama & Papa Have a Store illustrated and written by Amelia Lau Carling (Dial Books) |
| 2000 Mildred L. Batchelder Award, for best book originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country: | The Baboon King, written by Anton Quintana in Dutch and translated by John Nieuwenhuizen (Walker and Company) |
| 2000 Margaret A. Edwards Award, lifetime achievement award for outstanding literature for young adults: | Chris Crutcher |
| 2000 Andrew Carnegie Medal, for best children's video: | Miss Nelson has a Field Day, based on the book by Harry Allard, produced by Paul R. Gagne, directed and animated by Virginia Wilkos and Ty Varszegi, and distributed by Scholastic, Inc. |
