Texas Bluebonnet Award
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NEW: 2012-13 TBA Master List!
The 2012-13 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List was announced on Saturday, October 22 at the Texas Book Festival in Austin. At 3:00 pm, Jack Gantos and Phil Bildner formally announced the list in the Children's Reading Tent. The 2012-13 TBA Master List will be voted on by students in grades 3-6 all over Texas in January 2013.
2012-2013 Texas Bluebonnet Association Master List (pdf)
2011 TBA Winner
The Uglified Ducky: A Maynard Moose Tale by Willy Claflin won the Texas Bluebonnet Award with 22.94% percent of the vote. In January, students in 3rd through 6th grades from all across Texas voted for their favorite book from the 20 titles on the 2010-2011 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List. A total of 187,848 votes were cast, representing 2,057 voting locations. The Uglified Ducky garnered 43,146 votes. Coming in second was Dying to Meet You: 43 Cemetery Road by Kate Klise with 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass a close third.
Texas Bluebonnet Vote Results Totals
The results from our January Voting in a table format.
About TBA
All school libraries, public libraries, and home school associations are encouraged to participate in Texas Bluebonnet Award. The program is aimed at students in grades 3-6. Participating students must read a minimum of five books from the current master list before they may vote for their favorite title. Teachers and parents are encouraged to read some of the books aloud. The author of the book receiving the most votes statewide is declared the winner of the Texas Bluebonnet Award. At the TLA annual conference, ten children, selected randomly, who participated in the reading and voting present the author with the Bluebonnet Award.
Librarians, teachers, and parents may develop original ideas to enrich the TBA reading program. It is recommended that school and public libraries cooperatively supply the master list books and promote the award program. To assist with various promotional activities, the TBA committee sells an entertaining video, bookmarks, book seals, certificates, pencils, and other promotional materials.
The Texas Bluebonnet Award committee is responsible for selection of the books on each year's Master List. Suggestions are solicited from librarians, teachers, parents, students and other interested persons. A new list of no more than twenty books is released each year by November. In selecting titles, the committee considers student interests, relevant content, reputable reviews, and literary quality. Both fiction and nonfiction books are represented. The author must be a living U.S. citizen or an author who resides and publishes in the United States. Books considered for the master list must have been published in the United States. Only titles published within the three years prior to the master list release date are considered. Textbooks and new editions of existing titles are not eligible.
