How to Apply for the Award

Books can be recommended for the award by publishers and members of the James Madison Book Award Advisory Council.

To be eligible for the award in any given year, books must:

• be written for children in elementary or middle school.
• take up a subject in American history. Only nonfiction will be considered.
• be published (which will, in most cases, mean copyrighted) in the previous year.

Anthologies, collections, textbooks, audio books, and Internet books are not eligible.

Publishers who wish to recommend eligible books for the James Madison Book Award should contact Cristina Allegretti at (202) 277-2034.

The deadline for recommending a book for the 2008 James Madison Book Award was May 6, 2008. This will be the final year of the award.