Texas Bluebonnet Award
The TBA Committee selects Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List titles after receiving suggestions from librarians, teachers, parents, students and others. The Master List books, all recommended by one or more reviewing source, should be evaluated in terms of each library’s selection policy. It is not mandatory that a school or public library purchase all titles listed.
View the titles suggested so far. Suggest a title.
The Texas Bluebonnet Award (TBA) reading program was established in 1979 to encourage Texas children to read more books, explore a variety of current books, develop powers of discrimination, and identify their favorite books. Two committees within the Texas Library Association (TLA) have the responsibility for selecting and publicizing the books eligible for this annual award. They are the Texas Bluebonnet Program Committee and the Texas Bluebonnet Selection Committee. Together these two committees create and coordinate the activities associated with the TBA Program, which is jointly sponsored by the Children’s Round Table (CRT) and the Texas Association of School Librarians (TASL).
The work of the two committees is directed by the Texas Bluebonnet Coordinator and the TLA Executive Board.
Any participating school or public library must submit an annual registration fee of $15. This fee covers postage and printing costs associated with the Texas Bluebonnet Award.
- Register Online (pay by credit card)
- Printable Form (pay with check)
Texas Bluebonnet Award Program supplies can be ordered through the TBA Store on this website.
• Order Online (pay by credit card)
• Printable Form (pay with check)
• Video Streaming Form (mail in with check)
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2010 TBA Winner
Students chosen from TLA's 10 districts charmed the TBA luncheon crowd at TLA 2010 as they introduced the winning book and its creators. Help Me, Mr. Mutt by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel received 31,933 votes in the January voting. This is the second time the creative sisters have authored and illustrated a Texas Bluebonnet Award winner.
Second place was Martina the Beautiful Cockroach with 19,791 votes, and third place was Alvin Ho with 16,251. 191,090 students voting – a new record! Here are the voting statistics: 2010 VOTE (doc)